African 703: Teaching African Languages

How can students achieve communicative competence in the languages we teach? What is communicative competence anyway? How can we create language focused and cultural studies lessons that draw on multiliteracy pedagogy— an approach that integrates language and other modes of communication— as useful resources to help students achieve communicative competence and intellectual engagement with course materials? Through readings, critical reflection, discussion, and practice, students in this course will address these questions and learn how to create engaging lesson plans and increase opportunities for students to use the languages we teach for communicative, contextualized purposes. They will also acquire skills to teach cultural studies courses effectively.