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Essay Instructions: Research methods and techniques of second language teaching for the age group that you are observing in your field work.

Use of technology
Describe the strategy and how it can be used with students in the classroom.

Essay Instructions: Times New Roman, 12

The layout should be the following:

1. Introduction
-Benefits of Second Language Acquisition
-Benefits of Multilinguism
-Benefits of CLIL(Content and Language Integrated Learning).
-State of the art until now related to CLIL.
-The role of Oral Practice
-Importance of ICT related to Oral Production.

2. Hypotheses

3. Research Instruments/Methodology
(How this study will be conducted. Qualitative Approach combined with Quantitative).

4. Expected Results

5. Study Limitations and Future Research

6 Problems within the study

7. Bibliography
-“Approaches & Methods in Language Teaching” (Jack C. Richards, Theodore S. Rodgers). Cambridge
-“Second Language Acquisition” (Rod Ellis). Oxford University Press
-“Towards Multilingual Education” (Jasone Cenoz). Colin Baker and Nancy H. Hornberger
-“The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages” (Ronald Garner & David Nunan). Cambridge University Press
-“The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition” (Catherine J. Doughty and Michael H. Long). Blackwell Publishing
-“CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning)” (Do Coyle, Philip Hood, David Marsh). Cambridge University Press

(*I would like you to use this bibliography. There are six here. I will send you 24 articles about CLIL, some of which are in Spanish. The 10 remaining ones should be mainly about CLIL(in order to have a complete state of the art scenario) and some about ICT enhancing language learning specially focusing on oral production).
There are faxes for this order.

Essay Instructions: I need a report to be written in applied linguistics. The question for the report i have to write:

1. To what extent may L1 affect second language learning? Examine the ways in which different theories of second language acquisition have dealt with the presence of the L1 in those learning a second language and show how views have evolved over time.

These are some of the reading material we were asked to read and Would like you to use as some of the sources;

Doughty, C.J. and M.H.Long (2003) The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing (Chapter 1: The scope of inquiry and goals of SLA)


Myles, Florence (2002) ?Second language acquisition research (SLA): its significance for teaching and learning issues? : @ http://www.lang.ltsn.ac.uk/

Sorace, A. (2003). ?Near-Nativeness.? In Doughty and Long, Handbook of SLA.

Davies, Alan (2006). The Native Speaker in Applied Linguistics. Handbook of Applied Linguistics, ed. by. Davies and Elder. Oxford: Blackwell. E-book.

(431 page )

Gass S. and Selinker L. (2008), Second Language Acquisition, ch. 13 ?The Lexicon?.

Cook, Vivian (1993) Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition, London/Basingstoke: Macmillan, Chapter 9, pp200-245 (?The Universal Grammar Model and Second language Acquisition?)

Mitchell, Rosamond & Florence Myles (2004) Second Language Learning Theories, London: Arnold Chapter 3, pp 52-94 (?The Universal Grammar Approach?) [pp42-71 in 1998 edition]

Essay Instructions: Explore and describe the psychological aspects of learning a second language. Include memory, inhibition, motivation, and individual differences as well as other factors you may encounter. You may use your own experience as a reference point but must include scholarly data and examples to support your conclusions.