UZAJ9518 ELT Online

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2014
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 3 credits for an exam). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
James Edward Thomas, M.A. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
There are no pre-requisites for this course.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 12 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/12, only registered: 0/12
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
By the end of the course, it is expected that students will have studied a range of linguistic, language acquisition and ELT methodology topics.
Students should understand current thinking that provides the criteria by which language teachers make decisions.
Through a rich input of ELT terminology, students will have acquired new concepts and debated their relevance and significance.
Students will have developed a rich repertoire of classroom language used to maintain teaching in the target language.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction to e-learning; The Hierarchy of Language
  • 2. Introduction to Communicative Language Teaching
  • 3. About grammar, about teaching grammar
  • 4. About vocabulary, about teaching vocabulary
  • 5. About pronunciation, about teaching pronunciation
  • 6. Teaching in the target language
  • 7. Giving Feedback
  • 8. * About language testing
  • 9. * About e-learning and blended learning
  • 10. Overview of the course.
  • Note that the units marked with an asterisk are not yet included in the course.
Literature
    required literature
  • BROWN, H. Douglas. Teaching by principles : an interactive approach to language pedagogy. 3rd ed. White Plains: Pearson Education, 2007, xvii, 569. ISBN 9780136127116. info
  • LIGHTBOWN, Patsy and Nina Margaret SPADA. How languages are learned. Fourth edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, ix, 256. ISBN 9780194541268. info
    recommended literature
  • UNDERHILL, Adrian. Sound foundations :living phonology. Illustrated by Nick Hardcastle. 1st ed. Oxford: Heinemann, 1994, xii, 210 s. ISBN 0-435-24091-9. info
  • HANKS, Patrick. Lexical analysis : norms and exploitations. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 2013, xv, 462. ISBN 9780262018579. info
  • English as a lingua francaa corpus-based analysis. Edited by Luke Prodromou. New York: Continuum, 2008, xiv, 295 p. ISBN 9780826440136. info
  • Global Issues in English Language Teaching. Society for Fair Trade, 2008. ISBN 978-80-254-2732-3. A sample of the book is available online info
  • THOMAS, James Edward. I am bound to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people: Why global issues matter. In ELT: Converging Approaches and Challenges, Proceedings of the 7th International and 11th National Conference of the Association of Teachers of English in the Czech Republic (ATECR). Eds: Christoph Haase and Natalia Orlova. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, p. 175-182. ISBN 1-4438-2980-3. URL info
Teaching methods
This is an e-learning course in which students read the texts provided, watch videos of short lectures, do quizzes and questionnaires, and in particular participate in forum discussions with other course participants and the teacher.
Assessment methods
The revision activities throughout the course have grades recorded by the e-learning system. There is also an assignment due at the end of the course which involves creating some teaching material that reflects the ideas which appear in the course. Participation, which is logged by the e-learning software, is also a course requirement.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every other week.
Teacher's information
https://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf2/course/view.php?id=2334
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2016.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2014, recent)
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