بازگشت Teaching in general and English language teaching, in particular, is a multifaceted and complicated area of inquiry. The complication comes from several adjacent areas that might profoundly impact this discipline. Despite a large number of journals publishing research articles and textbooks discussing English language teaching and learning intricacies, we are still faced with many problems in dire need of solutions. This diversity of problems indicates the situated nature of teaching and learning, and that we cannot prescribe general solutions such as one size fits all! That is, applied linguists, curriculum planners, and English language teachers are constantly dealing with novel context-bound glitches and they have to find strategies that fit in with their local teaching/learning context. This brief introduction is expected to illustrate the objectives of the course. The course expects students to study recently published research articles of their interests in reputable journals with a critical mind and discuss them in the classroom. They are then invited to negotiate the content of each article in relation to the immediate context that they are experiencing/have experienced. As a second major goal of the course, the readings of the papers are assumed to help students to develop their tentative thesis project topics. The students are required to discuss their topics with their supervisors and a tentative proposal should be delivered to the instructor by the end of the semester. The classroom discussions together with the proposal will comprise the final semester score.
Seminar in English Language Teaching
Instructor: A.R. Jalilifar
Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz
Teaching in general and English language teaching, in particular, is a multifaceted and complicated area of inquiry. The complication comes from several adjacent areas that might profoundly impact this discipline. Despite a large number of journals publishing research articles and textbooks discussing English language teaching and learning intricacies, we are still faced with many problems in dire need of solutions. This diversity of problems indicates the situated nature of teaching and learning, and that we cannot prescribe general solutions such as one size fits all! That is, applied linguists, curriculum planners, and English language teachers are constantly dealing with novel context-bound glitches and they have to find strategies that fit in with their local teaching/learning context.
This brief introduction is expected to illustrate the objectives of the course. The course expects students to study recently published research articles of their interests in reputable journals with a critical mind and discuss them in the classroom. They are then invited to negotiate the content of each article in relation to the immediate context that they are experiencing/have experienced.
As a second major goal of the course, the readings of the papers are assumed to help students to develop their tentative thesis project topics. The students are required to discuss their topics with their supervisors and a tentative proposal should be delivered to the instructor by the end of the semester. The classroom discussions together with the proposal will comprise the final semester score.
Here are some suggested journals for reference:
Applied Linguistics
Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
Arts and Humanities in Higher Education
Assessing Writing
COGENT: ARTS & HUMANITIES
Composition Studies http://www.uc.edu/journals/composition-studies.html
College Composition and Communication (CCC) http://www.ncte.org/cccc/ccc
Complutense Journal of English Studies
Concentric: Studies in Linguistics
Discourse Studies
Discourse and Communication
Discourse and Society
English for Specific Purposes
European J of applied linguistics
English Text Construction
ESP Across Cultures
ESP Today
Foreign Language Annals
Functions of Language
Issues in Writing http://www.uwsp.edu/english/iw/
Interaction Studies
International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
International Journal of English Studies
International Journal of Applied Linguistics
Iberica
International Journal of Educational Research
International Journal of Communication
International Journal of English and Education
Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice
Journal of Asia TEFL
Journal of English for Academic Purposes
Journal of Society, Culture and Language
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication (Scopus)
Journal of Education and Practice
Journal of Communication
Journal of English for Academic Purposes
Journal of pragmatics
Journal of Argumentation
Journal of Writing Research
Journal of applied linguistics and professional practice
Journal of College Reading and Learning
Journal of Language & Politics
Journal of English linguistics
Journal of English Studies
Journal of Language and Linguistics
Journal of Politeness Research
Journal of World Languages
Journal of English for Specific and Academic Purposes
Journal of Language Teaching and Research (Scopus)
Journal of Teaching Writing http://www.iupui.edu/~jtw/
Journal of Creative Writing Studies http://scholarworks.rit.edu/jcws/aimsandscope.html
Journal of Basic Writing http://wac.colostate.edu/jbw/
Journal of Advanced Composition http://www.jacweb.org/
Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics
Journal of Second Language Studies
Journal of Second Language Writing
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication (Scopus)
Journal of Multicultural Discourses
Language, Context, and Media
Language Arts
Language Awareness
Literacy in Composition Studies http://www.licsjournal.org
Linguistics and Education
language Policy
Language and Communication
Language Teaching Research
Language Learning
Language Learning and Technology
Language Problems and Language Planning
Language and Dialogue
Language Problems and Language Planning
Language Sciences
Language in Focus
Language Testing
Language and Learning Across the Disciplines
Languages in contrast
Language Matters
Linguistic research
Language learning and development
Linguistics & Education
Language and Cognition
Language Sciences
Language Awareness
Learned Publishing
Pedagogical Linguistics
Porta Linguarum
Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
Pragmatics and Cognition
Pragmatics & Society
Research in language
RELC (Regional English Language Center)
Research in Higher Education
Studies in higher education
Studies about Languages
Studies in Language
Studies in Educational Evaluation
Studies in Second Language Learning
System
Taiwan ESP
Text and Talk
The language Learning journal
The modern language journal
Teaching English As a Second Language
Written language and literacy (Scopus)
Writing Systems Research (SCOPUS)
Writing on the Edge http://woe.ucdavis.edu
Writing Center Journal http://www.cas.udel.edu/writing-center/journal/Pages/default.aspx
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