This course will provide an overview of approaches to foreign language
teaching and the theory and research underlying current trends. F573 has
three primary objectives:  1.) To acquaint students with theory, issues,
and research in foreign language teaching; 2.) To show ways of using that
research to achieve more effective classroom teaching and testing; 3.) To
develop students' skills in evaluating teaching performance (their own and
others') and instructional materials.

Course texts will include Lee and VanPatten (1995) Making Communicative
Language Teaching Happen and Lightbrown and (Spada 1993) How Languages
Are Learned, as well as additional readings. Class meetings will be
devoted to discussion, short presentations, and demonstrations by students and
instructor. A variety of assignments, short projects, and a final examination
will be required.  This course is required of Associate Instructors in French
and is open to all interested students.