“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery” (Mark Van Doren). This was the goal I aimed at when designing a Methodology of Modern Language Teaching course at the Spanish and Portuguese Program here at Yale University. With the guidance of Nellek Van Deusen-Scholl (The Director of The Center for Language Study at Yale University) and the collaboration of Luna Najera (Co-Language Program Director/ Spanish and Portuguese), we were able to create a course that assists future language instructors to go on their journey of discovery as they themselves guide their students through a similar journey.

The course prepares the students for a teaching career through readings, lectures, classroom discussions, and presentations on current issues in foreign/second language acquisition theory and teaching methodology.

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