Master
2023/2024
Project Seminar "Foreign Language Teacher's Continuous Professional Development (CPD)-1"
Type:
Compulsory course (Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication)
Area of studies:
Linguistics
Delivered by:
School of Foreign Languages
Where:
School of Foreign Languages
When:
2 year, 1 module
Mode of studies:
distance learning
Online hours:
20
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Konstantin Khomutskii
Master’s programme:
Иностранные языки и межкультурная коммуникация
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
20
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The research seminar spans various aspects of foreign language teachers' contunuous professional development, including preparation and taking international language exams along with teacher-training courses and exams. Emphasis is put on young learners, teaching for exams, and business processes in managing organizations involved in foreign language teaching. This seminar focuses on learners' needs analysis.
Learning Objectives
- To provide a detailed overview of needs analysis in foreign language learning process
- To give a methodological basis for language needs data gathering
- To familiarize oneself with CEF Professional Profile and its application in needs analysis and course design
Expected Learning Outcomes
- be able to assess needs in language learning process
- distinguish different types of needs and use them accordingly
- understand various approaches to data gathering for needs analysis
- conduct needs analysis for an individual learner and group learners’
- conduct and present a CEF Professional Profile on a chosen topic
Course Contents
- Origins and theoretical basis of language needs analysis
- Types of needs in language learning: ‘necessities’; ‘lacks’; ‘wants’; ‘target needs’; ‘learning needs’
- Types of analysis: target situation analysis; deficiency analysis; strategy analysis; language audit
- Language needs on three different levels (macro; micro; meso)
- Typology of research methods in needs analysis
- CEF: professional profile and its six parts as a means of needs analysis
- Creating your own CEF Professional Profile
Assessment Elements
- Classroom activity involvement
- Completed home assignmentsThe number of assessments may be slightly different to what is planned
- Final Test
- Needs analysis project for an ESP Course
Interim Assessment
- 2023/2024 1st module0.2 * Classroom activity involvement + 0.2 * Completed home assignments + 0.3 * Final Test + 0.3 * Needs analysis project for an ESP Course
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Zoghlami, N. (2020). Needs Analysis for the Design of a Professional English Curriculum: Insights from a French Lifelong Learning Context. In Research-publishing.net. Research-publishing.net.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Английский язык. Медиакоммуникации и журналистика = English for Mediacommunication and Journalism : учебник / К. И. Хомутский, А. А. Левина, А. А. Хавронич [и др.] ; под ред. К. И. Хомутского. — Москва : КноРус, 2023. — 200 с. — ISBN 978-5-406-10727-0. — URL: https://book.ru/book/947063 (дата обращения: 25.08.2023). — Текст : электронный.
- Хомутский К.И., Бурова М.А. - Английский для востоковедов. English for Asian Studies - 978-5-7598-1940-0 - Москва: ВШЭ - 2019 - 362104 - https://ibooks.ru/bookshelf/362104/reading - iBOOKS
- Хомутский, К. И. Английский для востоковедов. English for Asian Studies Coursebook : учебное пособие / К. И. Хомутский, М. А. Бурова. — Москва : Высшая школа экономики, 2017. — 147 с. — ISBN 978-5-7598-1353-8. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/100238 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.