Prior experience with technology is not required. Explores a number of major issues controversial in language pedagogy. Topics include communicative competence as a pedagogical goal, the role of explicit grammar teaching, the proficiency movement, cultural authenticity, student-centered learning, and the use of technology. Internships are nonpaying, work-study positions that focus on the practice of translation. Qualified students are placed with area institutions, interest groups, agencies, or corporations.
Placement depends on availability of positions.
In-service workshops, tours, and seminars dealing with selected topics in literature, language, bilingualism, culture, methodology, etc. May not normally be applied toward the M.A. in modern and classical languages. Study of the nature of literary work and analysis of contemporary critical approaches to literature. May not be taken for credit by students who previously received credit for FRLN 615. Purpose and methods of the study of culture, with emphasis on strategies and techniques for teaching culture in foreign language programs.