ASIAN 104

Main Course

Asian Language Pedagogy

Description

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Required of all Asian Languages and Linguistics majors. Current issues in teaching Asian languages. Pedagogical grammar, curricular development, social, cultural, and cognitive foundations of Asian language acquisition, best practices in teaching Asian language writing systems, special issues in teaching heritage students, comparisons of K-12 language teaching and college language teaching, assessment methods, and emerging trends in Asian language teaching. P/NP or letter grading.