Methods of Foreign Language Teaching

2024/2025

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

3

Кредиты

Статус:

Курс по выбору

Когда читается:

3-й курс, 3, 4 модуль

Преподаватель

Спехова Анна Игоревна

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course will provide an integrated coverage of methods of classroom instruction, management and assessment. The methodology of the course will include lectures, seminars, lesson construction, practice teaching, in class exercises, discussion of readings, and tests. The final output is taking a course exam in Theory and Methods of Teaching English as a Foreign Language.

Learning Objectives

• The aim of the course is to build third year students’ competency, which enables them to provide effective teaching English as a foreign language at language schools in Russia. The course focuses particularly on the language that teachers need for use in the classroom, for talking and reading about methods of teaching and for furthering their studies in English as a foreign language. It also enables them to learn how to plan and conduct their own lessons in English.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Knowledge of: - basics of building and development of communicative competency in English as a foreign language; - contemporary requirements to teaching language construction and developing skills (both receptive and productive) and sociocultural competency pursuant to the CEFR levels in English;
• Knowledge of key concepts in Evaluation. Assessment types and tasks.
• Knowledge of key concepts in Managing the classroom. Learners and teachers.
• Knowledge of key concepts in Planning lessons.A proposal for action. Lesson shapes. Planning questions. Plan formats. After the lesson (and before the next).
• Knowledge of key concepts in Teaching Listening .
• Knowledge of key concepts in Teaching reading.
• Knowledge of key concepts in Teaching Speaking
• Knowledge of key concepts in Teaching writing.
• Knowledge of key concepts on the topic Lexis.
• Knowledge of methods on Describing the English language. Phonology.

Course Contents

• Topic 1. Describing the English language. Grammar
• Topic 2. Describing the English language. Lexis
• Topic 3. Describing the English language. Phonology.
• Topic 4. Teaching the language system. Teaching reading
• Topic 5. Teaching the language system. Teaching writing
• Topic 6. Teaching the language system. Teaching speaking
• Topic 7. Teaching the language system. Teaching listening
• Topic 8. Planning lessons
• Topic 9. Managing the classroom.
• Topic 10. Evaluation

Assessment Elements

• Lesson plan
  Choose one of the following options and create a lesson plan aimed at developing reading skills: A reading lesson for primary school based on a specific coursebook. A reading lesson for secondary school based on a specific coursebook.
• Final test
• Continuous assessment

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 4th module
  0.25 * Continuous assessment + 0.25 * Final test + 0.5 * Lesson plan

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• The TKT (Teaching Knowledge Test) Course : Modules 1, 2 and 3, 2nd ed., 7th printing, 256 p., Spratt, M., Pulverness, A., Williams, M., 2014
• The TKT (Teaching Knowledge Test) Course : Modules 1, 2 and 3, 2nd ed., 9th printing, 256 p., Spratt, M., Pulverness, A., Williams, M., 2014

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Воронина, Л.А. Практикум по технологиям обучения иностранным языкам: учебно-методическое пособие / , Г.А.Баева. - СПб: Изд-во Санкт-Петербургского ун-та, 2017. - 119 с. - ISBN 978-5-288-05759-5. – Текст: электронный // БД ЗНАНИУМ (Znanium) [сайт]. - URL: http://znanium.com/bookread2.php?book=999676

Authors

• Klimova Margarita Andreevna
• Spekhova Anna Igorevna