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Course Description: This course will introduce students (i) the key issues in, shifting perspectives, evolving theories and principles of second language learning; (ii) implications of such theories into classroom practice; and (iii) interdisciplinary approaches to second language acquisition (SLA), mainly drawing from psychology, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and anthropology and various other language learning theories. While the readings in this course will address dominant paradigms in the field of SLA, they will also include critical, feminist and socio-cultural theories of learning a second language. Course Objectives: The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of the key understandings, theory and research of TESOL and Second Language Acquisition and to help you make meaningful connections between research and pedagogy. The main objectives of this course are as follows: 1. Explore fundamental concepts related to foreign and second language learning; 2. Learn interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and learning a second language in diverse educational settings; 3. Learn how a second language is acquired from linguistic, socio-cognitive, and sociocultural approaches; 4. Demystify stereotypes and mainstream understandings concerning second language learning and English language learners.