Program Description

Study at home and participate with Auburn University students in a program designed to join on-campus classes and distance learners through synchronous streaming video. The program will include three courses in second language research-based theory and practice that will be taught by an associate professor with many years of experience in a high school foreign language classroom. All courses involve readings with written homework, lectures with discussions, presentations of instructional activities, reports, exams and projects. The program can be completed during two academic years and two summers.

CTSE courses will be offered fall, spring and summer in the sequence listed below for the first-year cohort group. A new cohort group will begin in the fall of each academic year. See courses and schedules for complete layout of course work.

In CTSE7540/7546 we evaluate and investigate foreign language teaching effectiveness with an emphasis on current instruments and models of assessment appropriate for communicative competence and proficiency in all four skills.

In CTSE 7530/36 we look at the theory and professed standards that the foreign language profession would like to see as the organizing principles for curriculum development with a special emphasis on reading. We will show how to fit theory to practice as we create interdisciplinary thematic units for secondary students.

In CTSE 7520/26 we investigate practices for teaching culture through the target language. We also use the tools of ethnography to study cultural perspectives in the native and target culture. A study abroad experience is embedded within this course.

In FLSP/FLFR 6000-7000 students take six hours of elective Spanish or French in a four week abroad experience. This study abroad experience is connected to the CTSE 7520/26 described above.