Lecture Theatre

This course introduces teacher trainees to the underlying principles and practices of curriculum design, development, implementation, and evaluation as a conceptual framework to shape their practices as teachers. This course also orients teacher trainees to the various patterns of curriculum design. The course also highlights the factors that underlie different curricula designs that teacher trainees need to understand in order to make sense out of the school curriculum and instruction.

In this course, learners will be exposed to theories of reading and their influence on reading curricula and teaching practices around the world.  Course content will include relevant literary theory, teaching of the sub-skills of reading and their application.  Other content areas will be writing ability, the teaching of reading and writing in different language learning contexts; development of a reading culture among younger and older age groups.  Objectives:The course is designed to equip learners with:knowledge of basics in reading and writing, both as skills and as ac

  The course will deal with teacher education (TE) policy and characteristics of language teacher education (LTE) programmes in different countries and regions.  It will tackle and contextualise issues of knowledge, practical and professional elements of the language teacher preparation and development programmes.  In separate language groups learners will also learn content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge relevant to their languages of interest