Syllabus
1. Skills and sub-skills. Teaching vocabulary: an introduction.
2. What is vocabulary? Knowing a word. How words are learned. Formulating goals. Presenting new vocabulary.
3. Practicing vocabulary. Helping children to become independent vocabulary learners.
4. Teaching grammar: an introduction. Why teach grammar? Inductive and deductive grammar teaching.
5. Presenting a new grammar point. Noticing, re/structuring.
6. Practicing grammar. Proceduralizing.
7. Teaching pronunciation.
8. Teaching spelling.
9. Working with textbooks. Planning a lesson focused on language sub-skills.
Annotation
The course takes a close look at teaching language sub-skills (or language systems), i. e. vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and spelling, to young learners. Various presentation and practice techniques will be demonstrated, experienced, and discussed in relation to theory.
In the roles of teachers, the participants will prepare and realize short micro-teaching sessions and reflect upon them using theoretical knowledge and literature. They will then use the new insights as well as previously gained skills and knowledge to create full lesson plans integrating two or more sub-skills.