013058 LanguageTeaching Methods 2

This subject is designed to provide participants with the foundation of effective teaching of languages within the perspective of the K-12 contiuum, assist them to develop a flexible and informed approach whereby strategies can be selected appropriate to the learner's linguistic and communicative needs in the process of learning, and maintain and develop participants' own language skills. The focus is on the teaching of the four macro skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. The aquisition of these skills involves the ability to use various learning and communication strategies, the ability to convey meaning clearly and coherently and the ability to understand both oral and written messages in the target language. All these factors are considered along with the means by which these skills may be best aquired.