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LLED 494: Introduction to Additional Language Teaching and Learning
July 2 – August 9
Format: Online – asynchronous
Language teaching methods, instructional skills in English, and motivational design are examined. Sociocultural factors and language acquisition are explored with a focus on teaching and assessing listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, and vocabulary.
After completing this course, students should be able to:
- understand and use basic terms, principles, and concepts in additional language teaching and learning
- describe and implement a wide range of language teaching methods
- apply appropriate instructional strategies to support additional language learners
- employ principled eclecticism as a methodological approach to additional language teaching
- take a communicative focus in their language teaching
- consider motivational design when creating and facilitating language lessons
- act as language models and language informants for additional language learners
- teach speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, and social language skills
- create rich language learning environments
- assess language learning for both formative and summative purposes
- recognise how Indigenous knowledges and perspectives support language teaching and learning.
- reflect on additional language teaching experiences.
Dr. Kim McDonough
Dr. Kim McDonough is a professor in the TESL and Applied Linguistics programs in the Department of Education at Concordia University in Montreal. Her research has investigated how face-to-face interaction promotes second language learning through interactional feedback, language-related episodes, structural priming, skewed input, and nonverbal communication. Her interests also include the use of tasks for second language teaching and assessment, collaborative writing and prewriting activities, and source-based academic writing. She has been involved in EAL teaching and research in Canada, Chile, Korea, Thailand, USA, and Vietnam. At Concordia University, she teaches undergraduate, MA, and PhD classes in topics such as English grammar, language acquisition and pedagogy, research methods, pragmatics, and task-based teaching. At her previous universities (Northern Arizona University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), she taught similar courses, along with undergraduate courses in linguistics and sociolinguistics, and graduate courses in EAL teaching methods, psycholinguistics, and cross-cultural aspects of language teaching.
How to register
To register for courses, please visit the Student Service Centre (SSC).
This course is part of our Teaching English and Additional Languages (TEAL) Post-Baccalaureate Certificate (12-credits).
Register for Term two (July/August) courses via the Student Service Centre (SSC).
If you are looking to transfer a course into UBC Vancouver, or another institution, please confirm transfer credit will be approved prior to registering for a UBC Okanagan course.
*It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that the course is accepted towards the completion of a program.
Register for Term two (July/August) courses via the Student Service Centre (SSC). You must have current Summer registration eligibility. If not, please email sie.education@ubc.ca.
If you are looking to transfer a course into UBC Vancouver, or another institution, please confirm approval of transfer credit prior to registration.
*It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that the course is accepted towards the completion of a program.
To register for a course, you will first need to submit an online application via Education Planner BC portal.
- Sign up for your EducationPlannerBC Account and follow the instructions to complete your applicant profile.
- Select University of British Columbia as the institution you want to apply to
- Select the upcoming Winter Session: September – December
- Select “Access Studies”
- Under “Access Studies” section, indicate that your program of interest is the Okanagan School of Education’s Summer Institute in Education Summer Session May – August.
- Once all necessary fields are filled in, click the “Save” button at the bottom of the page.
- You will be prompted to review your EPBC application and pay an application fee.
Once you have paid the application fee, email nondegree.ok@ubc.ca if you want UBC to process it quicker. If not, it will take three to five business days for UBC to admit you.
Please contact sie.education@ubc.ca with your UBC student number and courses of interest.