Foreign Language Teaching to Younger and Adult Learners in Different Contexts

2023/2024

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

9

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

School of Foreign Languages

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

2 year, 1-3 module

Instructor

Bakulev, Alexey

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.
• Unit 5. Conceptual approaches to teaching adults
• Unit 6. Lesson planning in the context of FLT to adults
• Unit 7. Lesson teaching, observation, feedback, and self-evaluation

Assessment Elements

• Online Course
• Class Participation
  Class participation includes contributions during seminars, completion of home assignments, doing variouus tests and quizzes, and submitting notes on your classmates' microteaching.
• Lesson Plan
• Lesson Teaching and Self-Evaluation
• Syllabus design
• Peer Review
• Presentation
• Oral exam
• Syllabus review
• Online Course-1
• Course (Re)design
  You revise and resubmit the course designed for the section taught by Professor Markova or design a new course.
• Lesson Observation and Reflection
  You observed videotaped and live classes and evaluate them.

Interim Assessment

• 2022/2023 4th module
  0.1 * Online Course-1 + 0.2 * Oral exam + 0.2 * Peer Review + 0.1 * Presentation + 0.2 * Syllabus design + 0.2 * Syllabus review
• 2023/2024 1st module
  0.2 * Class Participation + 0.25 * Lesson Observation and Reflection + 0.35 * Lesson Plan + 0.2 * Online Course
• 2023/2024 3rd module
  0.2 * Class Participation + 0.2 * Course (Re)design + 0.2 * Lesson Observation and Reflection + 0.3 * Lesson Teaching and Self-Evaluation + 0.1 * Online Course

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
• 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
• 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

Authors

• BAKULEV Aleksey VALENTINOVICH
• Вишнякова Наталия Владимировна
• MARKOVA ELENA SERGEEVNA