Gabi Witthaus's List: MA TESOL

Socio-educational model and motivation

Macmillan invites you to join us as we discuss the one issue we all have in common as educators - the teaching of language, and how we can do it better.

The Macmillan Webinars are a series of live talks from some of the biggest names in ELT. You can watch these directly in your web browser, and all webinars are free to view. Have a question? You'll be able to put questions directly to the presenter during the session.

The Anaheim University TESOL Video Playlist includes seminars and lectures from the renowned faculty of Anaheim University's Graduate School of Education including the Dean Dr. David Nunan and the Chair Dr. Rod Ellis who both teach real-time online classes for the Anaheim University MA in TESOL program: http://www.anaheim.edu/content/view/18/48/

In our Formative Unit (p.11), it talks about critically evaluating relevant literature. It mentions that we could consult Stephen Brookfield's 'Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher' from p.185 to 206. See Chapter 8 of the book, 'Storming the Citadel: Reading Theory Critically'. (From Mod 1 Discussion Board)

Krashen's book (see Unit Three) as well as some articles in PDF format.

PDF copy of 'On Communicative Competence' by Hymes (1972). This is one of the readings for Formative Unit and Unit 2. The file is about 4.89MB.