Advanced Methodology for TESOL 1

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Advanced Methodology for TESOL -1

• Session 1

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Issues to be covered

• English as a global language.
• What do we mean by methodology?
• CLT and TBL.
• Describing Teachers.
• Describing learning context.
• And other topics to be decided later.

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English as a global language

• The triumph of English?
• A colonial history
• Economics
• Information exchange
• Travel
• Popular culture

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Kachrus Circles
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Which circle is KSA in?

• Task 1
• In group of 3-4, discuss the place of Saudi
  Arabia inside Kachrus circles and explain why?

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EFL, ESL, ESOL ELF

• What these acronyms and initials stand for?
• The emergence of TESOL

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TEFL vs. TESL
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Next session

• Please read the paper titled
• Post-method era