Seminar in Teaching of Romance Languages

3 units

A practical and theoretical introduction to teaching second languages. The theoretical component incorporates historical and contemporary theories of language pedagogy. The practical component focuses on developing a teaching persona, a relationship with students, and classroom organization and presentation skills. It offers approaches to communicative language teaching and to teaching culture and literature. It suggests varied instructional materials and use of multimedia. Students have an opportunity to teach with supervision, observation, and follow-up conferences. Open to teaching assistants in the Romance Languages, for whom this is a required course; open to other teaching assistants by permission of instructor.