Teaching ESL in Primary and Secondary Schools I

This course is designed to help students understand the process of planning listening, speaking, reading and writing activities in a second language. Students will learn about planning lessons and creating pedagogical tools for the development of the four skills at the primary and secondary levels; appreciate the importance of using texts in the learning of second languages; develop lessons that allow students to integrate their knowledge and skills in the second language; begin to learn to evaluate these lessons and determine whether students have met the required level of competency for each cycle from Primary Cycle One to Secondary Cycle Two.