Date of Award
5-2012
Degree Type
Creative Project
Degree Name
Master of Second Language Teaching (MSLT)
Department
World Languages and Cultures
Committee Chair(s)
Karin de Jonge-Kannan
Committee
Karin de Jonge-Kannan
Committee
Doris McGonagill
Committee
Sonia Manuel-Dupont
Abstract
This portfolio is a compilation of the author’s teaching philosophy and three artifacts that explore elements of second language teaching. The teaching philosophy contains the author’s strategies of second language teaching including instructional practice, communicative language teaching theory, and application. This portfolio also contains artifacts of second language teaching that explore communicative competence, formal address pragmatics, and second language literacy. An annotated bibliography of books and articles that have impacted the author’s teaching beliefs and practices is also included.
Recommended Citation
Mecham, Timothy M., "Exploring Second Language Learning: Communicative Competence, Pragmatics, and Second Language Literacy" (2012). All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023. 166.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/gradreports/166
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This work made publicly available electronically on June 13, 2012.