Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Links between theory and practice, teaching and pedagogic principles
- major language teaching approaches and methods, especially those within the communicative approach
- Analysis and evaluation of course-books
- issues of planning in language teaching and implementation (different forms of curricula, syllabus and their relation to course material and assessment)
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Use information technology where appropriate.
- Monitor your own progress and evaluate your understanding of key concepts;
- Develop and maintain module notes and bibliography;
- Communicate about language teaching and learning in a range of formats and registers, spoken and written, for a range of audiences;
- Access theoretical and research materials and assess relative strengths and weaknesses;
- Identify, select and use a wide range of professional/ authentic materials from different sources;
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Reflectively reassess your individual experience in language teaching and learning.
- Select and evaluate relevant academic publications and discuss them critically; Analyse and critically assess language teaching in relation to language learning;
- Assess the value of a range of methodological approaches to particular contexts;
- Formulate problems and issues in language education, which most directly suit your professional and academic milieu;
- Evaluate language teaching materials in terms of pedagogic principles and their underlying theoretical rationale;
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Teaching | 24 |
Independent Study | 126 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Thornbury, S (2001). Uncovering grammar.. Oxford: Macmillan.
Richards, J and Rodgers, T (2001). Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching. Cambridge University Press.
Gray, J. (ed.) (2013). Critical Perspectives on Language Teaching Materials. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
McGrath, I. (2016). Materials evaluation and design for Language Teaching. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Hedge, T. (2000). Teaching and Learning in the Language Classroom. Oxford: OUP.
Walsh, S. (2013). Classroom Discourse and Teacher Development. Edinburgh: Routledge.
Savignon, S. (Ed) (2002). Interpreting Communicative Language Teaching. Yale University Press.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Abstract and Presentation | 20% |
Written assignment | 80% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Coursework | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Coursework | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External