- Trainer/in: Thomas Ottlinger
- Trainer/in: Thomas Ottlinger
This seminar introduces students to the tools of EFL lesson planning with a special focus on TEYL. Building on the theoretical foundations laid in the lecture Introduction to Language Teaching at Primary School, it will provide students with hands-on knowledge to teach the Four Skills as well as grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation in an interactive and engaging fashion in line with the central tenets of communicative language teaching such as task-based learning and student-centered teaching. Effective lesson planning and the formulation of realistic and verifiable teaching goals will play a crucial role. Students will develop their own lesson plans and present select activities in the form of teaching demonstrations to gain practical experience and receive qualified feedback from both instructor and peers.
- Instructor: Karen Glaser
Accompanying the students’ weekly English teaching practicum, this seminar takes a hands-on perspective and looks at the many-layered processes and events unfolding in the primary EFL classroom. Building on the foundations laid in the introductory lecture as well as the seminars on lesson planning and communicative teaching methods in the previous semester, it will focus specifically on the delivery of PELT lessons and the factors that make for effective and/or less successful FL instruction. We will look at classroom phenomena such as teacher-student interaction, feedback-giving/error correction, giving instructions, motivating students to participate and produce output, and the varying of methods, media and social forms etc. The seminar will provide a platform for students to share their experiences and questions from the practicum. It will also provide guidance on the students’ term papers, for which they are asked to analyse a lesson they will be teaching during their practicum.
- Trainer/in: Karen Glaser
- Trainer/in: Anne Schrader