This course focuses on a research-based approach to language education and how teaching, learning, pedagogy and education can be conceptualised in research.
On completing this course students will be able to:
-recognize different aspects of language education including formal language features and structures, individual experience and expectations, social considerations
-aware of different tools and approaches to research language education phenomena
-use research-based insights to develop as a language educator
Content
This course introduces different tools and approaches for conceptualizing and exploring different aspects of language education. The particular focus of this course is on what a research-based approach to language education involves and how research-based language education draws on notions of education, pedagogy, language teaching, language learning, development and study.