lSample: “To
become familiar with the major theories of language
development and some of the major debates in field”
l
When you’ve got the basic
outline of your course down, I want to encourage you to spend some time
focusing not just on the content and the schedule, but on course objectives
and student learning outcomes.
Most of us are familiar with
course objectives – these are the instructor’s objectives for the course.
And most syllabi that I have
seen include course objectives. I conducted a completely unscientific google
search of syllabi for language acquisition courses – of the 10 syllabi that I
looked at, 8 had some sort of course objectives.
And most read just like the
one that I had on my syllabus the first time I ever taught first language
acquisition: To become familiar with the major theories of language
development and some of the major debates in field
