FLL 526 - Classroom Discourse

3 credits
Roles that teacher-student and student-student classroom interaction play in the context of a critical analysis of sociocultural principles of language learning as they relate to linguistic classroom practices, participation structures, and different activity types. Topics include the idea of learning as participation; language as a tool for social action; mind as the joint construction of biological and cultural processes; meditational means; the zone of proximal development; scaffolding and collaborative dialogue; the development of class learning opportunities; the use of content-based instruction to promote classroom discourse; the development of a critical pedagogy; and the idea of teaching as assisted performance. Students are provided the opportunity to use inquiry skills in the development of both theoretical and applied content. For the Master of Arts in Teaching program, appropriate 400 level Foreign Language and Literature courses may be offered at the 500 level.