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Learning: A Teaching Philosophy, Stephen Allen Warren
Learning: A Teaching Philosophy, Stephen Allen Warren
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
This portfolio presents the author’s current understanding of second language teaching. The main section of the portfolio consists of a teaching philosophy that expresses the author’s believe that definitions of learning direct second language teaching. Three artifacts explore language, culture, and literature and express the development of the author’s teaching philosophy. An annotated bibliography covers the essential readings done in the course of study and provides the foundations for the author’s ontological arguments.
The Language Teaching Puzzle, Gregory S. Child
The Language Teaching Puzzle, Gregory S. Child
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
This portfolio is a compilation of beliefs about effective foreign language (FL) teaching. The core of this portfolio is a teaching philosophy, in which theories, such as comprehensible input, teacher and student roles, and activities are explained. The teaching philosophy is accompanied by a reflection of the authors teaching observed from a video. Following the teaching philosophy and personal teaching reflection are three artifacts centered on language, culture, and literacy. The language artifact contains an observational study in which instructors’ practices are compared with their beliefs. The cultural artifact is focused on storytelling. Many civilizations employ storytelling in the form …
Communicative Language Teaching: The Cornerstone Of Second Language Acquisition, Sierra Fischback
Communicative Language Teaching: The Cornerstone Of Second Language Acquisition, Sierra Fischback
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
This portfolio is comprised of a compilation of papers written by the author while completing the Master of Second Language Teaching (MSLT) program at Utah State University. The focus of the portfolio is a teaching philosophy outlining the author’s beliefs on how to foster effective language teaching in the university foreign language classroom. Included as well are artifacts addressing coping with culture shock, effective forms of language learning, and reading in foreign language literature courses. These artifacts were chosen to reflect important areas of language teaching that have affected the author’s teaching philosophy. Finally, the author has incorporated an annotated …