This course is offered as a core course for Master's in education level. The course includes four units focusing on theoretical and practical aspects of educational psychology. The course aims to provide students with professional knowledge, skills and understanding about development psychology and learning theories including their educational implications. In regard with developmental perspective, the course gives emphasis to adolescence's growth and development, and problems behavior and disorders arise during this phase. The course explores different schools of learning theories centering on how a child learns in his/her everyday life and their implications in formal education. Finally, the course also introduces knowledge practices related to guidance and counseling in a school setting, and focuses on teacher's role as a guidance worker and counsellor.
English in Usage and Use is an advanced-level course on English syntax that is directly interfaced with semantic and pragmatic dimensions. The Course is integrated in nature that begins with the broader theoretical perspective on the syntactic aspects of grammar and moves through English usage and its use in action and finally ends with their pedagogical extension.
Dimensions of Teacher Development is a course beyond methodology, and it covers the key concepts of English language teaching as a professional and various dynamics of teacher development. It addresses the fundamentals of teacher development such as beliefs, maxims, and identities. The course also discusses the second language teacher education and makes an attempt to empower the students to operationalize various teacher learning models and approaches. It also enables them to design and deliver training sessions. Thus, the course aims at producing professionally competent English language teachers and trainers.
General Objectives
The general objectives of this course are as follows:
· To make students familiar with the basic concepts of English teaching and teacher development;
· To acquaint them with the fundamentals of teacher development;
· To help the students link various learning theories with ELT teaching situations;
· To provide students with the concept and skill in using the various teacher learning models and teachers’ roles;
· To enable the students design and deliver training sessions.
This course aims at exposing the students to the theoretical foundations in Second Language Acquisition (SLA). The course also engages the students in the SLA research. The course consists of four units. The first unit presents the fundamental concepts of SLA and related disciplines. The second unit exposes the students to the various approaches of SLA including the universal grammar and non –language factors. The third unit presents the overview of different theories and models of SLA. The fourth unit introduces the students to the SLA research and language teaching.