Postgraduate Course: Teaching the Spoken Language (EDUA11050)
This course will be closed from 31 July 2013
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 |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This option course has not run for several years. Students who would have been interested in it should read MATERIALS EVALUATION AND DESIGN FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING (McGrath; Edinburgh University Press) |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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Learn enabled: No |
Quota: None |
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| Central | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | | | 11:10 - 13:00 | | Central | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | 12:10 - 13:00 | | |
| First Class |
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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. |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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