TOPICS IN TEACHING AFRICAN LANGUAGES

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe in clear terms "multiliteracy pedagogy and communicative language teaching". Audience: Graduate 2. Use the multiliteracy approach in communicative lesson planning and in teaching African Cultural Studies. Audience: Graduate 3. Use critical framing as a tool to teach and lead discussion in African cultural studies. Audience: Graduate 4. Create and utilize a communicative lesson plan. Audience: Graduate 5. Give constructive criticism of a lesson plan based on how communicative and multiliteracy-based it is. Audience: Graduate 6. Locate and respond to further readings on multiliteracy and teaching in African cultural studies. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe in clear terms "multiliteracy pedagogy and communicative language teaching". Audience: Graduate 2. Use the multiliteracy approach in communicative lesson planning and in teaching African Cultural Studies. Audience: Graduate 3. Use critical framing as a tool to teach and lead discussion in African cultural studies. Audience: Graduate 4. Create and utilize a communicative lesson plan. Audience: Graduate 5. Give constructive criticism of a lesson plan based on how communicative and multiliteracy-based it is. Audience: Graduate 6. Locate and respond to further readings on multiliteracy and teaching in African cultural studies. Audience: Graduate