Dr. Terry Royce, MA Program Director, Teachers College, Columbia University troyce@tc-japan.edu
1-3 credits - no prerequisites - Open to all Groups
Letter Grade (option for P/F)
Advisement note:
This is a TESOL IIIA course. It is available for any group, BUT it is primarily being offered to meet the needs of those who may need to fulfil recency requirements for graduation in February or May 2008, or those who need final TESOL credits but who for scheduling reasons cannot attend a course. Courses with this course number may be taken more than once.
Course Starts: Sept 1st
Course Ends: January 20th
The course will not involve regular assigned classroom hours, but will be organized around an area of educational research (classroom-based or research literature-based) selected by the student and approved by the Director. The perspective is on conducting practical research in TESOL or applied linguistics and preparing a critical piece of work. It may involve either theoretical or practical considerations in teaching, and group discussions with other participants may be required (depending on enrolment numbers).
Course requirements include 100% attendance at pre-arranged consultations, and either a series of papers or a final written report relating to the area chosen. Attendance at selected sessions for other courses may also be required (subject to course instructor permission).
No textbooks are required.
Dr. Terry Royce is Program Director at the Tokyo campus of the Teachers College Columbia University MA in TESOL Program and has been appointed by Teachers College (New York) to the Tokyo program. He has a BA in Economics and a Diploma in Education from Macquarie University, a Graduate Diploma in Multicultural Education from Armidale University, an MA in Applied Linguistics from Sydney University, Australia, and a Ph.D. in Linguistic Science from the University of Reading, England. His research interests include the analysis of multimodality, discourse and cohesion analysis across disciplines (specifically scientific and economics discourse), the application of systemic-functional linguistics to discourse varieties and TESOL education, and the forensic linguistic analysis of police negotiators' discourse.