Designing and Managing an ESL/EFL Classroom

The focus of this course is to learn how to plan lessons, design activities, and assess learners. Students become familiar with techniques for promoting interaction, providing feedback, utilizing textbooks, developing one's own materials, dealing with mixed ability level groups and incorporating strategy training in lessons to better manage a classroom. The course demonstrates formal and informal assessment methods for both receptive and productive skills, and explores strategies used for addressing student errors in the classroom. This course also examines the levels of English language proficiency, and their benchmarks, as described by the State of Massachusetts.

This course is not offered during the fall term. Winter registration opens October 6, 2008.