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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Educational Studies |
| 7 Mestrado Universitario en Profesorado de Educación Secundaria: Linguas Extranxeiras |
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| Curriculum development and didactics of the foreign language |
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| Identifying Data | 2018/19 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Curriculum development and didactics of the foreign language | Code | 652609921 | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Official Master's Degree | Yearly |
First | Obligatory | 3 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1.What do we mean by learning a foreign language or a L2?. | Practical and theoretical work. Teaching a non-native language |
| 2. The Common European Framework of Reference of Languages. | Documents. Description Different features Levels of foreign language acquisition according to the Common European Framework. |
| 3.-Curriculum development models. |
A Study of the different approaches to EFL curriculum design. Designing curriculum through Tasks. Designing curriculum through Projects. |
| 4.- From the communicative competence to effective language teaching. |
Main Teaching Competences. Curriculum development through skills. |
| 5.- Communicative competence acquisition. |
Communicative competence and its types. Examples of communicative competence to be developed in the classroom. Other models of curriculum construction (constructivism, etc.). |
| 6. Integration and attention to diversity in the curriculum. | Models of school integration. Mixed-ability classes. Diversification. Special needs in education. |
| 7.- The European Language Portfolio. | Description. Main features. Examples. Development in the classroom context. |
| 8.- Other key skills integrated in the curriculum. | Discursive competences. Developing strategies in the classroom. Grammatical competences. The importance of crosscurricular (transversal) education. |
| 9. New Trends in the teaching-learning process. | The new role of the teacher as a facilitator in the classroom context. The importance of the media. Technological elements in the classroom. The integration of ICTs in the educational process. |
| 10.- Teaching syllabus and curriculum design. | Examples of curriculum design. The language-integrated curriculum. Recent trends in curriculum design. |
| 11. The concept of 'learning sequence' within the curriculum. | Methodology and parts of a 'learning sequence'. |
| 12.- Curriculum design and schools. | Indivisualized Educational Project. Curriculum adaptations and syllabus. The educational context. Designing activities for competence development. |
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