Postgraduate Course: Teaching the Spoken Language (EDUA11050)
Course Outline
| School |
Moray House School of Education |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
| Home subject area |
Education |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
This option course focuses on the evaluation and design of classroom materials for teaching listening and speaking. It begins with Allwright's fundamental question - What do we need teaching materials for? It then analyses the system and skill components that make up the macro-skills of listening (Rost) and speaking (Bygate, Hughes), how they can be developed in classroom tasks in a principled way, and the extent to which specific materials do that effectively. Among the issues addressed in evaluating materials are the authenticity of text and task. As well as evaluating published materials, the course includes the design of listening/speaking tasks based on non-pedagogic texts, which leads on to discussion of alternative forms of grading (e.g. text, task and interaction-based). This option course draws most directly on the students' learning in the core courses Language Learning and Teaching and Language Description for Language Teaching, as well as on their previous classroom experience. The set text for the course is McGrath (2002) "Materials Evaluation and Design for Language Teaching" (Edinburgh Univ Press).
Venue: IALS, 21 Hill Place |
Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
The set text for the course is "Materials Evaluation and Design for Language Teaching" by Ian McGrath (Edinburgh University Press, 2002) and costs approximately £15.00 |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: No |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | | | 11:10 - 13:00 | | Central | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | 12:10 - 13:00 | | |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students will:
- be aware of research into the interplay of the components required for effective performance in listening and speaking
- understand the key criteria for evaluating materials for listening and speaking
- have created/adapted an evaluation checklist for materials to teach listening skills
- have adapted existing listening/speaking materials for their own teaching context
- have designed and piloted their own materials based on authentic sources
- have revised those materials in response to feedback. |
Assessment Information
Option 1 - Evaluation project
- A 5,000-word project involving the preparation, trialling and assessment of an evaluation checklist for use with listening websites or the speaking component of a global textbooks.
Option 2 - Design project
This involves preparing a complete set of materials for two consecutive listening/speaking lessons, based on authentic materials. In writing up the project (5,000 words) students should:
- describe the context in which the lessons will take place
- provide teacher's notes comprising outline lesson plans showing objectives, lesson stages, materials and aids, and estimated timings for each stage
- justify the production of completely original material for the specified context
give a rationale for the choice of materials and the ways in which they have been exploited. |
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Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Anthony Lynch
Tel: (0131 6)50 6200
Email: A.J.Lynch@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Miss Fiona Mclachlan
Tel: (0131 6)51 6336
Email: Fiona.McLachlan@ed.ac.uk |
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