Bachelor
2021/2022
Current Trends in Language Teaching
Category 'Best Course for Career Development'
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Elective course (Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication)
Area of studies:
Linguistics
Delivered by:
School of Foreign Languages
Where:
School of Foreign Languages
When:
4 year, 1, 2 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
5
Contact hours:
52
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Employing different teaching techniques developed by previous generations of language educators and awareness of methodological principles behind them ensures that an EFL lesson is effective and it creates the best conditions for language learning. The course surveys the major approaches and methods in language teaching such as the Grammar-Translation Method, the Audiolingual Method, Situational Language Teaching, Communicative Language Teaching, Competency-Based Language Teaching, Task-Based Language Teaching, the Lexical Approach, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Text-based Instruction, Cooperative Language Teaching, the Natural Approach, Total Physical Response, the Silent Way, Community Language Learning, Suggestopedia, Programmed Instruction and Multiple Intelligencies. It examines each approach and method in terms of its theory of language and language learning, historical conditions of its development, methodological principles behind it, its goals, its major classroom techniques, and its logic of sequencing activities. More emphasis is given to mastering skills of lesson planning and employing various teaching techniques to present and practice new language and develop receptive and productive language skills. The course also focuses on clarifying EFL terminology to enhance further continuous professional development through independent studying and reflecting on teaching and learning experience.
Learning Objectives
- By the end of the learning period students will be able to: - identify current approaches to language teaching; - use some elements of the approaches in teaching; - use IT tools in language teaching, including distance language teaching. As a result, students will be able to reasonably use elements of current approaches to language teaching and current technology in practise.
Course Contents
- Historical background.
- The Communicative Approach.
- Current approaches to language teaching.
- Active learning.
- Student-centered teaching.
- IT in language teaching.
- Current approaches to assessment.
Assessment Elements
- Presentations and Written taskThe tasks will be fulfilled and submitted via SmartLMS. If a student does not submit the assignment on a due date, they may submit it within a week after the due date, but they will lose three points off their final grade for this assignment.
- online course
- auditorythe instructor can assess students’ participation in discussions, homework completion, participation in groupwork; short quizzes and dictation tasks are also assessed; the mean is calculated at the end of the semester
- Microteachingstudents work in small groups to plan, conduct, and self-assess a lesson
- ExamThe examination is written. It includes two parts. Question 1 is a written response to a theoretical question making students analyse and compare current approaches to language teaching. Question 2 is a plan of a lesson based on the current approaches supported by relevant argumentation. Экзамен проводится в письменной форме синхронного прокторинга в MSTeams. The exam is conducted in written form with synchronous proctoring at MSTeams. The exam is held on the SmartLMS platform. You must join MSTeams session 5 minutes before the start. To participate in the exam, you need to turn on the camera, microphone, connect to SmartLMS, and start doing tasks. During the exam, students shouldn't: communicate (on social networks, with people in the room), cheat, transfer their version of the exam to other people to complete it, using textbooks and notes. During the exam, students are allowed to type the answer in the appropriate box. A short-term communication interruption during the exam is considered to be a communication interruption of up to 10 minutes. A long-term communication interruption during the exam is considered to be a communication interruption of 10 minutes or more. If there is a long-term communication failure, the student cannot continue to participate in the exam. The retake procedure is the same as the exam procedure. Students can be exempt from examination if they have more that 4 which is calculated with the formular Ofinal/0,7
