2024/2025
Foreign Language Teaching to Younger and Adult Learners in Different Contexts-2
Type:
Mago-Lego
Delivered by:
School of Foreign Languages
When:
1-3 module
Online hours:
20
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Instructors:
Elena Markova
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
9
Course Syllabus
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. In this section of the course, emphasis is placed on teaching English and other foreign languages to adults, specifically college and university level students.
Learning Objectives
- Formation of foreign language teaching competence necessary and sufficient to teach diverse target audiences with different learners’ needs
- Formation of foreign language teaching skills essential in teaching English to adults, specifically to college and university level students
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Can analyze educational/learning and authentic materials, considering the pedagogical and methodological expediency of their use in a particular educational context.
- Can design a set of tasks to enhance students’ cognitive, linguistic, conversational and socio-cultural development.
- Can select language tests having in mind the specific character of a particular educational context.
- Can analyze various materials for language assessment including tests, materials of language contests, results of project works, language portfolios, etc.
- Can analyze FL programmes, syllabi, and coursebooks.
- Can determine methodological, educational, socio-cultural, and developmental potential of learning tasks.
- Can select and manage the best types of project work
- Can work with methodological literature
- Can write reviews on coursebooks and syllabi
- Can give classes using various learning materials, including videos, and Internet resources
Course Contents
- Unit 1. Using various methods and techniques for activating learners' cognitive skills.
- Unit 2. Types and functions of language testing
- Unit 3. Course planning and syllabus design.
- Unit 4. TESOL methodology.
Assessment Elements
- Peer Review
- Presentation
- Class ParticipationClass participation includes contributions during seminars, completion of home assignments, doing variouus tests and quizzes, and submitting notes on your classmates' microteaching.
- Syllabus design
- Oral exam
- Syllabus review
- Online Course
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 1st module0.4 * Class Participation + 0.6 * Syllabus review
- 2024/2025 3rd module0.1 * Class Participation + 0.2 * Online Course + 0.2 * Oral exam + 0.2 * Peer Review + 0.1 * Presentation + 0.2 * Syllabus design
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Jeong-Bae Son. (2018). Teacher Development in Technology-Enhanced Language Teaching. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Кузьмин, А.В. Learn English. Teach English : пособие / А. В. Кузьмин. - Санкт-Петербург : КАРО, 2004. - 215 c. - ISBN 5-89815-431-0. - Режим доступа: https://new.znanium.com/catalog/product/1047588
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- 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
- Rymanova, I. E., Baryshnikov, N. V., & Grishaeva, A. (2015). E-course Based on the LMS Moodle for English Language Teaching: Development and Implementation of Results. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.10.016