Language Teaching & Learning: French & Italian
The Language Teaching and Learning programs are specially designed to provide a comprehensive study of how languages are taught and learned, whether in a second or foreign language context. This program focuses on French and Italian.
Honours Bachelor of Arts
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Sample Courses
An examination of the history of French Canada, particularly its culture, political community, and language.
This course is designed to enhance students' Italian language skills through digital writing, editing, and translating. Projects include media production, digital analysis of primary texts, and comparisons between human-generated and computer-generated translations.
This course will conduct a critical appraisal of online course materials, and formulate appropriate pedagogical strategies for their exploitation. This course is taught in English and is open to students from other disciplines.
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The Education Studies minor is for students interested in a variety of careers that involve educating and training others. Students will develop an understanding of the format and the rationale for particular instructional strategies, teaching methodologies, andragogy and pedagogy.
Linguistics
The linguistics programs at UTM provide a solid foundation in the core theoretical fields of linguistics, covering the structure of sounds, words, sentences, and meaning, as well as a wide selection of courses in areas such as language variation and change, experimental linguistics, first and second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, language teaching and learning, and computational linguistics.
English Language Linguistics
The minor in English Language Linguistics provides a focus on understanding the structure of sounds, words, sentences, and meaning within the English language. Students will be exposed to theories on communication, and teaching and learning of the English language.