Unit 1 · Available
Background to Language Learning
Build the conceptual foundation for explaining language learning, learner differences, evidence, and teaching implications.
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Course learning space
Learn the concepts. See the evidence. Build better teaching decisions.
This hub brings the course learning units into one project. After Unit 4, students can move directly from a keyword, topic, classroom problem, or teaching idea into Research Studio to see how an emerging idea can become a Proposal Preview. Research Journey remains optional for students who want a longer development history across units.
Learn→See in context→Practice→Check→Research Studio
Learning units
Units 1–4 are active in this consolidated project. Unit 5 will be added here without creating a new Cloudflare project.
Unit 2 · Available
Background to Language Teaching
Connect approaches, methods, contemporary orientations, classroom design, technology, and defensible pedagogical decisions.
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Unit 3 · Available
Second Language Acquisition
Move from abstract SLA theories to concrete learner evidence, mechanisms, competing explanations, teaching decisions, and transfer.
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Unit 4 · Available
Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Design context-sensitive TEFL through communicative competence, skills pedagogy, curriculum alignment, materials, assessment, and technology.
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Unit 5 · Planned
Issues in Language Teaching and Learning
Evidence, access, identity, learner diversity, motivation, anxiety, technology, ethics, and professional responsibility.
Planned
After Unit 4 · guided research entry
Move from a course idea to a Proposal Preview
The main pathway now goes directly to Research Studio. Begin with only a keyword, topic, classroom problem, or teaching idea; the Studio helps make the proposal structure visible step by step. Research Journey remains available as an optional workspace for students who want to document how an idea changes across Units 1–5.
Course project note: Units 1–4 now live in the same consolidated project. Research Studio is the main post-Unit 4 pathway; Research Journey is optional and remains separate from unit scores.