This course aims to introduce experienced language-teaching professionals worldwide and those with language-/linguistics-based backgrounds but little or no language-teaching experience to theories and principles of teaching second or foreign language, helping them construct a fundamental understanding of current theories and research in language acquisition and relate these to the practice of language pedagogy. The course also investigates ways in which various approaches and methods can be utilized in the delivery of a foreign language curriculum and the teaching of language knowledge, including vocabulary and grammar, and both receptive and productive language skills. For MA(ILE) students or students with program director or course instructor's approval only.