Workshop: Teaching Grammar Via Content-Based Instruction

Course ID - CTD0472e 

Short Title: Teaching Grammar    

* Approved CT&D Workshop for Faculty Professional Development hours.

Description:
After a brief introduction to corpus linguistics, Best Practices in Grammar Teaching will explore ways to use corpora to enhance English language and grammar instruction. Participants will work interactively to develop ways to adapt existing corpus materials that are directly related to the classes they will teach. Additionally, participants will be introduced to corpus resources and materials. Workshop participants will become familiar with several types of activities for teaching and practicing grammar and will be introduced to specific examples. Activities include using corpus resources to create exercises, helping students to understand differences between formal and informal English, teaching students how to avoid common mistakes, and integrating grammar and writing.

In order to receive Professional Development Credits for participation in the Workshop session you must complete an Online Module within two weeks of the workshop. This online module requires for you to review your notes from the Workshop and to create a lesson plan or a classroom activity integrating grammar with writing and content for any EAP Level.

 
 
 Objectives

As a result of successful completion of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Articulate the philosophy and purposes of the Content-based instruction in grammar teaching
• Describe the features of academic language used in current EAP-Grammar classes and Content-based Grammar clases
• Create a Content-based lesson related to grammar

 

Dates of Workshop	Reference #	Delivery Format	Meeting Days/Time	Campus/Room	Instructor
02/07/13	752811	F2F	Thursday 9:00am - 3:00pm	Wolfson/2106	Dr. Randi Reppen

Registration information
Course ID: CTD0472e
Course Title: Teaching Grammar
Reference # - see table 

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