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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
| Mestrado Universitario en Estudos Ingleses Avanzados e as súas Aplicacións (2013) |
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| English Teaching and Learning |
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| Identifying Data | 2018/19 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | English Teaching and Learning | Code | 613505014 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Official Master's Degree | 2nd four-month period |
First | Optional | 3 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1. Applied Linguistics and the teaching of English. | 1.1. Introduction. Second language learning and acquisition: definitions 1.2. Historical review of the study of second language acquisition. Theories: Behaviorism, Universal Grammar (Innatism, Nativism), Krashen and the Monitoring Hypothesis, Input and Interaction, Social models, Cognitivism, Competence and Performance, Interlanguage, CLIL. Practice: Second Language Teaching and Learning: Motivation, Errors and Correction, Gender, Age, Social class and Stages in Second Language Acquisition (Critical period); Proficiency. |
| 2. Current issues in the learning and teaching of English as a Foreign Language. | 2.1. New tendencies and approaches to the teaching of English. 2.2. The acquisition of the first and second languages language, factors and theories. 2.3. The Common European Framework for the teaching and learning of languages. 2.4. The European Language Portfolio (PEL) |
| 3. Conducting research in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching. | 3.1. Introduction. 3.2. Planning a project. 3.3. Possible Themes: 1.Age and Second Language Acquisition 2. Motivation and Second Language Acquisition 3. Interlanguage 4. Social factors and second language acquisition 5. Gender and Second Language Acquisition 6. Stages of Second Language acquisition. 8. Teaching methods and learning English. 3.4. Possible structure and organisation of a language learning project. 3.5. Practical task. The preliminary design of a research project. |
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