This course is designed for experienced TFs and TAs who are currently teaching a foreign language at Harvard, or those who have prior foreign language teaching experience. The course will build upon instructors’ understanding of language pedagogy through an in-depth exploration of current theories in the field, relevant applied linguistics research, and models of theory in practice. Through interactive discussions, video-conferencing, and in-class demonstrations, the course will explore themes associated with social pedagogies, emerging technologies, beliefs and motivation, culture and identity, notions of advancedness, genre-based pedagogies, and multi-literacies and their relationship to language, culture, and literature instruction.

Course notes: A prerequisite for this course is the ROM-LANG 210: Language Pedagogy: Theories, Practices, and Approaches (or equivalent). This course is designed for instructors who have foreign language teaching experience and who have course work in language pedagogy. This course fulfills one of the requirements of the Bok Certificate in Teaching Language and Culture program (in collaboration with the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning).