LANGUAGE TEACHING I
The course aims at providing the students with basic knowledge of modern foreign language teaching, with particular regard to methods, levels, approaches, techniques, skills and competences for learning and teaching foreign languages at every school grade.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
The course aims at providing students with theoretical and methodological instruments for foreign language teachers in line with the European guidelines concerning language education.
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: knowledge of the main approaches, methods and tools in language teaching as well as in Computer assisted language teaching.
ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: analyzing foreign language learning materials taking into account approaches, methods and tools; knowlwdge and use of the main CALL-tools.
MAKING JUDGMENTS: critically reflection on the different language teaching approaches, methods and tools.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS: describing the main foreign language teaching approaches and methods taken in consideration during the course; CEFR and other european guidelines concerning language teaching.
The theoretical and applied foundations of the teaching of modern foreign languages
History of methods, approaches and techniques of teaching modern foreign languages. Learning and teaching of foreign languages in various school levels and grades: levels, skills, syllables, curricula and teaching units. Common European Framework of Reference for language teaching and learning.
Incoming students:
-Spada, Lightbown: How Languages are Learned, Oxford.
Lectures and seminars.
The verification of the learning consists of a written and oral test at the end of the course, assessed in thirtieths. The verification aims to ascertain the acquisition of the contents described in the study program and is aimed at ascertaining the degree of preparation of the students, their capacity for critical analysis of the topics covered, as well as; the level of discursive organization of the exposition.
Clarifications are provided during the office hours.