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- Trainer/in: Iris Fischer
- Trainer/in: Karen Glaser
- Trainer/in: Anne Schrader
This lecture provides an introduction to English teaching methodology with a special view to Teaching English to Young Learners (TEYL) and the elementary school context (Primary English Language Teaching, PELT). Based on findings and theories from the field of (Instructed) Second Language Acquisition, this lecture lays the theoretical foundation for the more practically-oriented seminars in the TEYL modules. Among other things, the lecture will cover variables that influence second language acquisition (such as age, motivation etc.), the role of input, output and interaction, L1 transfer, communicative and usage-based perspectives on language learning, and derive methodological implications for lesson planning, teaching, and assessment.
- Trainer/in: Karen Glaser
Complementing the lecture ‘Introduction to Language Teaching at Primary School’ as well as the seminar ‘Planning for the Primary EFL Classroom (PPEC)’, this course introduces students further to the principles, methods and techniques of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). On the basis of functional and usage-based approaches to foreign language learning and teaching, the course will familiarize students with formats and activities that can be used in the PELT classroom to teach interactional skills in an age-appropriate fashion to young learners. We will explore strategies to foster receptive skills as well as to elicit learner output, both in the oral and written mode. The seminar further covers approaches and principles such as Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT), scaffolding, and embodiment/Total Physical Response (TPR).
- Trainer/in: Karen Glaser
- Trainer/in: Anne Schrader
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