ELT529 BRAIN-BASED LEARN.AND LANGUAGE TEACHING
| Course Code: |
8200529 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
8.0 |
| Department: |
English Language Teaching |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
Assist.Prof.Dr MÜGE GÜNDÜZ |
| Offered Semester: |
Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
Introducing a new paradigm, known as brain-compatible or brain-based learning, providing language teachers with research from the discipline of neuroscience, biology and psychology to design brain-compatible materials and brain-based curriculum that encompass the role of emotions, patterns, meaningfulness, enriched environments, body rhythms, attention span of the brain and rest, attitudes, stress and relaxation, learner states, trauma, multiple ways of brain-compatible assessment, music, movement, memory, retrieval of information, perception, meaning construction, cognition, nonconscious learning, motivation, creativity, nutrition and brain-gym in the language classroom.
