Principles and Theories of Language Acquisition and Learning

This course provides an avenue for the pre-service English teachers to examine and demonstrate content knowledge on the principles, factors, and contexts of language acquisition and learning based on theories and research findings. Moreover, this course enables them to explore and analyze the relationship of language learning, principles, and theories to classroom practice. 

Introduction to Literature with Philippine Literature in English

     Lit 1N is an introductory course in the Philippine literature which deals with a variety of subject matters about life brought to the consciousness of the students through the appropriate literary genres. Through the course, the students could make sense of their own experiences with the guidance for critical analysis provided by the writers which they communicate in varied strategies, through the printed page. This is a peace oriented teaching of literature using the thematic approach based on peace themes. 

     This course is basically a reading course in that students are supposed to read various literary pieces presented in different literary forms or genres. However, correct interpretation is not as crucial analysis because usually, the exact original intentions of the writers are not made known by them. In addition, they do not give guidance on how their works should be interpreted. Thus, reading for developing the skill of critical analysis here is more important than writing summaries. For example, it is more important that students are able to determine how the characters are used by the authors to get their messages across, rather than simply identifying and describing them.

     Through the different literary genres (myths and legends, poetry, short story, novel, drama and others), the course could be a venue for students to immerse themselves in different contexts, in different times. The course will also provide a training laboratory for students to become adept in analyzing human thought and peace values and their anti-thesis such as; truth, compassion, social justice, free will and freedom, determinism, feminism, globalization, colonization, and many others.