UZAJ5503 English Language and LiteratureTeaching Practice (Comb.)

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
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: doc. Mgr. Tomáš Kačer, Ph.D.
Prerequisites
NOW ( UZAJ5502 ELT Methodology II ) && AJ51000 Examination in English && UZAJ5501 ELT Methodology I
Methodology I UZAJ5501 English examination AJ51000
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This course accompanies the Methodology course of theory and classroom techniques. The aim of this practice teaching course is for teachers to put into practice their newly acquired skills and techniques, to hone on ones already in use, and to posit them in the methodological framework of linguistics and language acquisition.
Syllabus
  • There is no week by week syllabus. As practising teachers, the participants are required to write up two lessons per week for ten of the weeks of the semester. One of the lessons each week should follow a class throughout the semester and it should begin with a detailed description of the class; the other can be any class. The information is to be entered into the course wiki.
Literature
  • THORNBURY, Scott. About language : tasks for teachers of English. Cambridge: University Press, 1997, xviii, 269. ISBN 0-521-42720-7. info
  • HARMER, Jeremy. The practice of English language teaching. New edition. London: Longman, 1991, 296 s. ISBN 0582046564. info
Assessment methods
The assessment requirement for this course, in addition to actually teaching is the writing-up of lessons, both plans and reflections, on twenty lessons given during the semester.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 5x2.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2009.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2008, recent)
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