2009 AM The Modern ELT-Classroom
From Angl-Am
| English Didactics |
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- Lecturer: Wolfgang Gehring
- Language tutor: Lindsay
- Time: Tuesdays, 2-4pm
- Venue: A10 1-121a
Contents
- 1 Week 1 - April 07, 2009
- 2 Week 2 - April 14, 2009
- 3 Week 3 - April 21, 2009
- 4 Week 4 - April 28, 2009
- 5 Week 5 - May 05, 2009
- 6 Week 6 - May 12, 2009
- 7 Week 7 - May 19, 2009
- 8 Week 8 - May 26, 2009
- 9 Week 9 - June 02, 2009
- 10 Week 10 - June 09, 2009
- 11 Week 11 - June 16, 2009
- 12 Week 12 - June 23, 2009
- 13 Week 13 - June 30, 2009
- 14 Week 14 - July 07, 2009
Week 1 - April 07, 2009
No Class.
Week 2 - April 14, 2009
Lesson plans and curricula
- Action item: Make yourself familiar with the structure of the core curriulum for Niedersachsen. Be prepared to comment on the development of a standard of your choice.
- How can guidelines be implemented in the ELT-classroom?
- What didactic theories should be considerd in lesson plans?
- How is this achieved in lesson plans? (see: 4teachers.de)
Week 3 - April 21, 2009
Concepts of communicative competence
- Action item (3 KP): Reference-based, various concepts, comparison of communicative competence and intercultural communicative competence; find examples from textbooks and/or lesson plans
- Workload: concepts of communicative competence in Johnson or Richards/Rogers (find one example from a textbook or a lesson plan)
Week 4 - April 28, 2009
Modern ELT
- Action item (3KP): a) What is considered an innovation in ELT? (content analysis, reference based) b) Theories and concepts of good language teaching (survey)
- Workload: Outline standards of good ELT. Use references and make a "check list".
Week 5 - May 05, 2009
Teaching grammar: The theories (Frau Pankratz)
- Action item (3KP):a) Survey: How is grammar being taught in the Modern ELT? b)Content analysis: Models of grammar teaching
- Workload: The role of grammar in Modern ELT (reference based)
- See: Kuhn, Tatjana. Grammatik im Englischunterricht der Primarstufe. Diss. Berlin, 2006. Als Verlagspublikation mit dem Titel: Grammatik im Englischunterricht der Primarstufe: Theoretische Grundlagen und praktische Unterrichtsvorschläge. Heidelberg: Winter, 2006.
Week 6 - May 12, 2009
Teaching grammar: The practitioner's view
- Workload: Analysing and outlining a lesson plan ('will-future' or 'some_any')
Week 7 - May 19, 2009
Teaching new language items task-based (Herr Dycker)
- Action item (3KP): Approaches to task-based learning (Willis, Nunan, Ellis: comparison and content analysis)
- Action item (3KP)/Workload: Tasks in textbooks
- Task: a) Describe the acquisition theory that may have influenced the -er, -est lesson plan. b) Write down features for evaluating lesson plans. c) Apply 1-2 of your features.
- Sources: Beurteilung von LAA, Guter Englischunterricht, Was ist guter Englischunterricht?, 10 Kriterien guten Unterrichts
Week 8 - May 26, 2009
Vocabulary teaching (Herr Staubach)
- Action item (3KP)/Poster (6KP): Survey: learning strategies and techniques for vocabulary building
- Workload: Vocabulary strategies in textbooks
- Links on task-based teaching and learning: Task-based learning in an Asian context, Jane Willis, David Nunan, Presentation: Nunan's task-based language teaching
Week 9 - June 02, 2009
Vocabulary teaching
- Action item (3KP/6KP): How is vocabulary dealt with in lesson plans? (content analysis)
- Workload: Approaches to vocabulary teaching (text) and vocabulary exercises and tasks in textbooks
Week 10 - June 09, 2009
Research unit (Herr Bruschke/Frau Zoller)
Week 11 - June 16, 2009
Principles of lesson planning (Frau Bohlen)
Week 12 - June 23, 2009
Language across the curriculum
Week 13 - June 30, 2009
Error consiousness (Frau Goetschel)
Week 14 - July 07, 2009
New media in ELT
