FF:UZAJ5045 Syllabus, Lesson and Material - Course Information
UZAJ5045 Syllabus, Lesson and Material Design for ELT
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2014
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 2 credit(s). 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 - Timetable
- each odd Friday 15:50–17:25 VP
- Prerequisites
- UZAJ5032 Language Acquisition
UZAJ2033 ELT Methodology I - 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 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme FF, N-GK)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS) (3)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme FF, N-TV)
- Course objectives
- This course is taught concurrently with UZAJ5054 ELT Methodology II, both of them building on UZAJ5033 ELT Methodology I. Methodology III deals with broader issues in language teaching. While the trainees are doing Methodology II and III, they are undertaking the course UZAJ5047 - Practice teaching.
The aim of Methodology III is to develop teachers' thinking about aspects of the profession beyond specific lessons. It is important that teachers develop a critical understanding long term and global matters in order to contextualise their work. - Syllabus
- Principles of e-learning
- Current views on providing feedback and assessing students
- Developing learner autonomy and independent learning
- Implementing long term project work
- Exploiting a text for its many levels
- Developing an understanding of the relationships between linguistic knowledge and the job of language teaching
- Creating lesson material
- Designing lessons
- Overall course planning
- 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
- not specified
- GRAVES, Kathleen. Designing language courses: a guide for teachers. Boston: Heinle & Heinle, 2000, xi, 308. ISBN 9780838479094. info
- Teaching methods
- This course is conducted as an e-learning course entitled Scenarios, available through ELF. The course participants work collaboratively online developing their understanding of some of the key issues in ELT as described in the Course Contents above.
- Assessment methods
- The assessment of the scenarios course consists of (a) contributions to the weekly forum discussions, and (b) the specific scenarios work that is submitted in the wiki placed at the end of the course.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2014, recent)
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