2008-09 AM Skills, Knowledge, Abilities

English Didactics
Educational Terminology
Online Resources for ELT
Online Journals for Foreign Language Teaching
Literary Research for Didactics
Secondary Literature for ELT

• Lecturer: Wolfgang Gehring
• Language tutor: Lindsay
• Time: Tuesdays, 2-4pm
• Venue: A10 1-121a

• Requirements for AM 7
• Suggestions for graded action items (3KP)

  All written work should be handed in by March 15, 2009. 

November 18, 2008

Facilitators:

• Exercises and tasks in textbooks that promote lexical competence, see: ESL/EFL Teaching and Learning Resources, Wortschatzeinführung, Goethe Verlag Poster

• Criteria for vocabulary selection

• Text on vocabulary teaching (Paul Nation)

November 25, 2008

• Please write down four tasks to help facilitate Paul Nation's text on vocabulary teaching and have the answers at hand.
• Please explain and write down how consciousness-raising and modern language teaching go together. (see Ellis text)
• Please explain and write down how the following learning theories would see the role of consciousness-raising: behaviorism, nativism, and cognitivism.
• Activity: lexical and grammatical activities in textbooks: A WRITTEN CATEGORIZATION