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The Department of Second Language Studies (SLS) BA major includes two electives, SLS 312 and SLS 313, that prepare students to teach key skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening) to learners of a second language. As pre-service teachers, their oral communication development must be framed within the field of second/foreign language teaching. As such, assessment of students’ oral communication requires not only consideration of their immediate ability to communicate clearly to their instructor and peers, but also a projection to how clearly they will communicate to second/foreign language learners (their future students). Importantly, both audiences have different needs and impose different communicative challenges for students. The goal of our proposed project is to develop the “Oral Communication for Language Teachers” rubric, which integrates University of Hawai'i Oral Communication Learning Objectives within a discipline-specific rubric for assessing students’ oral communication skills in the varied assignments of the two courses, including oral presentations and teaching demonstrations.

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General Education: Oral Communication Focus

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General Education: Oral Communication Focus

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Student Learning Objectives

Students will be able to:

OLO1. Present information orally in an organized manner appropriate for intended a) audience and b) purpose;

OLO2. Demonstrate effective verbal and non-verbal delivery techniques;

OLO3. Select and use appropriate content for oral (presentation) activity/context; and

OLO4. Generate/use/develop visual aids and handouts appropriate to the rhetorical situation that promote clarity, interest, and comprehension.

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The goal of E courses, at least in part, must be to equip students with some degree of proficiency in ethical deliberation. These courses should not be purely descriptive, merely characterizing, for example, the moral beliefs of person or peoples. Nor is it intended that the pedagogy be value-free, using approaches that maintain an "arms-length" relationship with current ethical issues.

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Course Description: SLS 312: Techniques in Second Language Teaching: Reading and Writing

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Course Description: SLS 312: Techniques in Second Language Teaching: Reading and Writing

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This course is an overview of the theoretical and practical issues involved in the teaching of second or foreign language (L2) reading and writing. The theoretical aspects of the course are integrated with empirical research findings as well as practical concerns and experiences including observation, classroom techniques, and material design. The goals of the course include providing students with opportunities to evaluate materials; to prepare lesson plans and activities; and to observe L2 reading and writing lessons in L2 classrooms.

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Course Description: SLS 313: Techniques in Second Language Teaching: Listening and Speaking

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Course Description: SLS 313: Techniques in Second Language Teaching: Listening and Speaking

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This course provides an overview of the theoretical and practical issues involved in the teaching of second or foreign language (L2) listening and speaking. The theoretical and empirical perspectives are integrated with practical experiences including classroom observation, teaching practices as well as material development and analysis.

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Workshop 1: Defining Language Teacher Oral Communication

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Workshop 1: Defining Language Teacher Oral Communication

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17 participants

3 hours via Zoom

Faculty and students discussed what language teachers should be able to do (in terms of Oral Communication). Also, how the SLS course assignments allow students to develop Oral Communication skills and what mastery of the skills looks like. Workshop guiding questions included:

What are the situations in which language teachers will be required to orally communicate information in the classroom?

What information are language teachers likely to communicate in the classroom? Discuss in reference to both content delivery and classroom management.

What difficulties might language teachers face while orally addressing the information identified in question 2?

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Workshop 2: Identifying Rubric Categories and Scope

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Workshop 2: Identifying Rubric Categories and Scope

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14 participants

3 hours using Zoom

Faculty and students discussed one assignment in detail, microteaching. They then watched video recordings of students doing the assignment and began to discuss the criteria for the assignment's oral communication rubric. Based on the video recordings, guiding questions included:

What do you see students doing and what feedback would be helpful?

How do we group skills into categories?

What does a passing performance on each category look like?  An outstanding performance?

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Faculty and staff drafted rubric descriptors based on criteria identified in Workshop 2.

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Rubric will be piloted in SLS 313 during Fall 2020 semester. After the first microteaching in October, the team will talk with the graduate student course instructor and plan revisions.

Second microteaching in SLS 313 is scheduled for November.

SLS 312 will be taught by Betsy Gilliland in Spring 2021, with opportunity for further refining the rubric.

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Betsy Gilliland egillila@hawaii.edu
Dustin Crowther dcrowth@hawaii.edu
Cari Ryan cariryan@hawaii.edu

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Most speakers worldwide speak more than one language. The field of Second Language Studies (SLS) investigates how people use, learn, and teach additional languages. The field examines both applied and theoretical perspectives in the study of multilingualism in all of its diversity. The Department of SLS (DSLS) at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa is an internationally leading institution in its field. DSLS faculty and students examine second language use and learning from educational, linguistic, psychological, sociological, and anthropological perspectives. Faculty expertise in a wide range of research approaches and practice domains offers students exceptional opportunities to pursue their career goals as language professionals and researchers worldwide.

Until the year 2000, the DSLS was the Department of English as a Second Language (ESL). It is true even now, many professors in the department have an affinity for areas such as ESL and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Language (TESOL). Our degree and certificate programs are relevant to those interested in ESL and TESOL, and they also go well beyond those areas, in regard to languages, research, theory, and practice.

Advanced Graduate Certificate in SLS

Advanced Graduate Certificate in SLS - Spanish Applied Linguistics

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Second Language Studies - Department of Second Language Studies

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Most speakers worldwide speak more than one language. The field of Second Language Studies (SLS) investigates how people use, learn, and teach additional languages. The field examines both applied and theoretical perspectives in the study of multilingualism in all of its diversity.