Language Acquisition

This is a six-week course providing a historical overview of the American Deaf community and its evolving culture. Theoretical frameworks from sociology are explored. Deafness as a culture and not a disability is explained as participants are guided into the world of Deaf culture.

In this course learners are introduced to second or foreign language theories and practices for teaching and assessing listening, speaking, and pronunciation. Learners will also be introduced to basic studies in second language acquisition and their pedagogical implications. Teachers will be invited to recognize the importance of grounding [...]

An introduction to some key concepts in the effective teaching and learning of languages. What is language? How do we learn meaning in a new language? What is easy and hard about learning another language? And what is the best way to teach other languages? This free online course [...]

Are you a teacher coaching learners to make sense of their mistakes in knowledge clips by linking rules in an unorthodox way? GuLL offers a new language acquisition approach connecting open educators with graphic facilitation, the art of hosting, narrative coaching and user-centered design. This MOOC is for any [...]