UZAJ5045 Syllabus, Lesson and Material Design for ELT

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
James Edward Thomas, M.A. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Friday 9:10–10:45 B2.113
Prerequisites
UZAJ5032 Language Acquisition
UZAJ2033 ELT Methodology I
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This course is taught concurrently with UZAJ2034 ELT Methodology I. Methodology III is a course in SYLLABUS, LESSON, MATERIAL DESIGN FOR ELT. The focus of this course is on preparing for Internal Practicie Teaching which takes place the following semester. By the end of this course, trainees should be able to meet the needs of different learners and different learning environments. The first month of the course focusses on Syllabus design. • The second month focusses on Lesson Planning. • The third month focusses on creating learning materials for lessons that are meeting the needs of a syllabus. • • In the process, trainees become familiar with key concepts such error correction, feedback, fluency and accuracy, double processing, task-based learning,modes of fostering learner independence, a.k.a learning to learn. • Through the process of designing a whole course, trainees get to hypothetically realise the plethora of language learning methods and procedures that they have become familiar with and make principled choices. • Ultimately trainees learn that every practical thing they do in the classroom is reason grounded in theory.
Syllabus
  • Principles of e-learning
  • Current views on providing feedback and assessing students
  • Developing learner autonomy and independent learning
  • Implementing long term project work
  • Exploiting a text for its many levels
  • Developing an understanding of the relationships between linguistic knowledge and the job of language teaching
  • Course design
Literature
    required literature
  • BROWN, H. Douglas. Teaching by principles : an interactive approach to language pedagogy. 3rd ed. White Plains: Pearson Education, 2007, xvii, 569. ISBN 9780136127116. info
Teaching methods
This course is conducted as an e-learning course entitled Scenarios, available through ELF. The course participants work collaboratively online developing their understanding of some of the key issues in ELT as described in the Course Contents above.
Assessment methods
The assessment of the scenarios course consists of (a) contributions to the weekly forum discussions, and (b) the specific scenarios work that is submitted in the wiki placed at the end of the course.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022.
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