Foreign Language Teaching to Younger and Adult Learners in Different Contexts-1

2023/2024

Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'

Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'

Type: Mago-Lego

Delivered by: School of Foreign Languages

When: 3, 4 module

Online hours: 20

Open to: students of all HSE University campuses

Instructors: Alexey Bakulev

Language: English

ECTS credits: 6

Contact hours: 50

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Abstract

The course is designed to enhance students' knowledge of the theory of teaching foreign languages in various contexts and skills of putting the obtained knowledge into practice. An in-depth look is taken into the teacher’s competences in terms of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR), the Cambridge English Teaching Framework, and the Russian Federal Standards. The course revises and presents a new focus on approaches to teaching foreign languages, course and lesson planning, materials design, and assessment. Due attention is paid to how to diversify students' teaching equipment depending on the educational context, including learners' proficiency level, learner's needs and tools of assessment of learners' achievements. Emphasis is placed on teaching English and other foreign languages to adults, specifically college and university level students.

Learning Objectives

Development of foreign language teaching skills essential in teaching English to adults, specifically to college and university level students.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Students can identify the learner’s needs and design their lessons and full courses in accordance with the identified needs
Students can analyze and professionally evaluate literature on education, psychology, and foreign language teaching
Students can plan and teach a lesson and a series of lessons within a course to an adult audience.
Students can reflect upon and self-evaluate the lesson(s) they have taught.
Students can take notes during lesson observation and prepare effective oral and written feedback comments
Students can take notes during lesson observation and prepare effective oral and written feedback comments.
Students can design their own materials and activities appropriate for the current educational context.
- Students can plan and carry out their continuing professional development (CPD).

Course Contents

Conceptual approaches to teaching adults.
The foreign language teacher’s competences
Language systems
Language skills
Lesson planning in the context of FLT to adults.
Lesson teaching, observation, feedback, and self-evaluation.

Assessment Elements

Lesson Observation and Reflection
You observed videotaped and live classes and evaluate them. The number of the observed classes will depend on the course dynamics, but you will observe at least two videotaped and two live classes. The overall grade will be calculated as the mean value of all the grades for each evaluation.
Class Participation
Class participation includes contributions during seminars, completion of home assignments, doing various tests and quizzes, and submitting notes on your classmates' microteaching.
Lesson Plan
Lesson Teaching and Self-Evaluation
Online Course

Interim Assessment

2023/2024 4th module
0.1 * Class Participation + 0.2 * Lesson Observation and Reflection + 0.3 * Lesson Plan + 0.3 * Lesson Teaching and Self-Evaluation + 0.1 * Online Course

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Мильруд, Р. П. Теория обучения иностранным языкам. Английский язык : учебник для вузов / Р. П. Мильруд. — 2-е изд., перераб. и доп. — Москва : Издательство Юрайт, 2021. — 406 с. — (Высшее образование). — ISBN 978-5-534-11977-0. — Текст : электронный // Образовательная платформа Юрайт [сайт]. — URL: https://urait.ru/bcode/476448 (дата обращения: 27.08.2024).

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Ellis, R. (2009). A typology of written corrective feedback types. https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccn023
Ellis, R. (2009). Corrective Feedback and Teacher Development.
Ellis, R. (2012). Language Teaching Research and Language Pedagogy. Malden, Mass: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=430951
Ellis, R., & Shintani, N. (2014). Exploring Language Pedagogy Through Second Language Acquisition Research. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=621962
Jeong-Bae Son. (2018). Teacher Development in Technology-Enhanced Language Teaching. Palgrave Macmillan.

Authors

MARKOVA ELENA SERGEEVNA
BAKULEV Aleksey VALENTINOVICH

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