Unit name | Teaching Modern Languages as a Foreign Language |
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Unit code | MODL30013 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Mr. Langner |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Modern Languages |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
In this unit students will be introduced to the teaching of modern foreign languages. It contains an introduction to different teaching styles and strategies, differences between language learning and acquisition, and the issue of learner variables; students will be enabled to formulate teaching objectives and to find suitable ways of achieving them. We will also deal with various aspects/difficulties of language teaching, such as the use of the target language in the classroom, how to engage pupils actively in lessons as well as how to use resources and technology effectively and appropriately.
Aims:
Successful students will:
Seminars will include a mixture of presentations, discussions, and practical workshops.
Students will observe practical language teaching in secondary schools in Bristol and (team-) teach one of the lessons they planned for their assignment.
Two seminar hours per week for nine weeks of one teaching block and two shorter but one to one sessions with the tutor to discuss lesson plans and reflect on own teaching. Two sessions in local schools.
2 x 3000 word essays (50% each)
Norbert Pachler, Michael Evans, Ana Redondo, and Linda Fisher, Learning to Teach Foreign Languages in the Secondary School. A companion to school experience (Routledge, 42014)
Rod Ellis, Natsuko Shintani, Exploring Language Pedagogy Through Second Language Acquisition Research (Routledge, 2014)
Jack C. Richards, Willy A. Renandya, Methodology in Language Teaching. An Anthology of Current Practice (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007)