EDU 408 Applied Linguistice for ESOL Education
A practical course for teaching English to speakers of other languages. The syllabus includes anintroduction to general linguistics with stress onthose aspects of various linguistic schoolapplicable to language teaching; a discussion oflanguage theory and teaching methodology(including practical exercises in the use of the direct method and audio-lingual techniques);and instruction in the use of comparative techniques in the teaching of sounds, word structure, and sentence structure.