Syllabus
Syllabus:
1. factors and variables affecting the process of L2/FL acquisition, their roles and specifics;
2. age and critical periods;
3. aptitude, its parameters, testing and relations to intelligence;
4. English in the Framework Education Programme for Lower Secondary Schools; the construction of a school education program;
5. Standards for elementary education, standardized examinations;
6. Teaching English for students with specific learning needs - symptoms;
7. teaching and testing for students with specific learning needs - accommodation (modification and compensation)
8. selected myths in learning and teaching foreign languages
Annotation
The course aims to apply TEFL methodology knowledge in the context of lower-secondary education. Students acquire principles and means for creating essential curricular documents (framework and school education programmes), relating these to the communicative competence, international standards and language examinations for middle schoolers. Students will analyze and evaluate videos from authentic lessons and they will also attend and monitor some lessons at schools. The topics include:
1. factors and variables affecting the process of L2/FL acquisition, their roles and specifics;
2. age and critical periods;
3. aptitude, its parameters, testing and relations to intelligence;
4. English in the Framework Education Programme for Lower Secondary Schools; the construction of a school education porogramme;
5. Standards for elementary education, standardized examinations;
6. Teaching English for students with specific learning needs - symptoms;
8. teaching and testing for students with specific learning needs - accommodation (modification and compensation)