Кто читает:: Школа иностранных языков

Статус:: Курс обязательный

Когда читается:: 2-й курс, 1-3 модуль

Преподаватель

Бакулев Алексей Валентинович

Full Syllabus

Abstract

The seminar focuses on introducing fundamental concepts, aspects and trends of current paradigms of foreign language teaching. Attention will be paid both to familiarizing students with the issues in question and assisting them with the design of their research and professional development trajectory. The seminar features group meetings and individual conferences both as established in your class schedule and during my office hours/by appointment on an as-needed basis.

Learning Objectives

To design, establish, and amend students' trajectories of their professional and research development in foreign language teaching
To establish the overview of the current state of affairs in foreign language teaching
To review both extensively and intensively the relevant literature (both seminal books and other important sources) in foreign language teaching

Expected Learning Outcomes

Students can identify, formulate, and interpret fundamental concepts of foreign language teaching.
Students can align fundamental concepts of foreign language teaching with their research/professional interests.
Students can recognize, interpret, and evaluate approaches to foreign language teaching.
Students can recognize, interpret, and evaluate past and current trends in foreign language teaching.
Students can identify their own research/professional needs in foreign language teaching.
Students can identify the skills and competences necessary to meet their research/professional needs in foreign language teaching.
Students can review, interpret, and evaluate literature on foreign language teaching.
Students can write analytical reviews on the theory and practice of foreign language teaching to establish the foundations of their Master's dissertations.

Course Contents

Introduction to FLT
FLT trends
FLT trajectories

Assessment Elements

Analytical Review
This is a review of the literature related to your prospective dissertation.
Individual Trajectory Map
The individual trajectory map is a student's professional development roadmap in accordance with the learning outcomes they need and intend to obtain within their teaching specialization.
Approaches to FLT
This is a group project on approaches to foreign language teaching.
Research Internship
Individual Trajectory Map Revised
Students produced updated versions of their individual trajectory maps in accordance with the advisor's feedback upon them and also according to the advisor's feedback upon their analytical reviews.
Presentations of Master's Dissertation Detailed Proposals
Students present their dissertation proposals in front of a committee and their classmates.

Interim Assessment

2023/2024 4th module
0.25 * Analytical Review + 0.25 * Analytical Review + 0.25 * Approaches to FLT + 0.25 * Approaches to FLT + 0.25 * Individual Trajectory Map + 0.25 * Individual Trajectory Map + 0.25 * Research Internship + 0.25 * Research Internship
2024/2025 3rd module
0.5 * Individual Trajectory Map Revised + 0.5 * Individual Trajectory Map Revised + 0.5 * Presentations of Master's Dissertation Detailed Proposals + 0.5 * Presentations of Master's Dissertation Detailed Proposals

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Astrida Skrinda. (2019). Teaching English: Perspectives, Methods, and Challenges. Nova.
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

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Eisenmann, M. (2019). Teaching English: Differentiation and Individualisation. Schöningh.
Faidal, N. F., Nur, R.-, & Suriani, S. (2020). The Teachers’ Pedagogic Competence in Teaching English through Online and Offline Setting. https://doi.org/10.26858/eltww.v7i1.13294
Jeong-Bae Son. (2018). Teacher Development in Technology-Enhanced Language Teaching. Palgrave Macmillan.
Rosell-Aguilar, F., Beaven, T., Fuertes Gutiérrez, M., & Research-publishing.net (France). (2018). Innovative Language Teaching and Learning at University: Integrating Informal Learning into Formal Language Education. Research-publishing.net.
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).

Authors

BAKULEV Aleksey VALENTINOVICH

Магистерская программа «Иностранные языки и межкультурная коммуникация»

Adviser's Seminar "Current Paradigms of Foreign Language Teaching"