Educational guide Faculty of Arts |
english |
Bachelor's Degree in English Studies (2009) |
Subjects |
ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE |
Contents |
IDENTIFYING DATA | 2015_16 |
Subject | ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE | Code | 12274210 | |||||
Study programme |
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Cycle | 1st | |||||
Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
6 | Optional | 2Q |
Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
Topic | Sub-topic |
UNIT 1.- INTRODUCTION. REVISION OF KEY ISSUES | 1.1. Second Language Acquisition 1.2. English as a Second Language (ESL) vs. English as a Foreign Language (EFL) 1.3. Second Language Acquisition vs. Third Language Acquisition 1.4. Interlanguage 1.5. Individual Learner Differences |
UNIT 2.- THE ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH IN A MULTILINGUAL CONTEXT | 2.1. What is bilingualism and multilingualism? 2.2. Multilingual Acquisition 2.3. Is multilingualism beneficial for language acquisition? 2.4. Models of multilingualism 2.5. The multilingual mind and th multilingual speech production |
UNIT 3.- THE LINGUISTIC CONTEXT IN ESL / EFL | 3.1. Input, intake, output and interaction 3.2. The role of input 3.3. Input in theories of language acquisition 3.4. Foreign talk (ESL) 3.5. Teacher talk (EFL) |
UNIT 4.- LEARNER STRATEGIES IN EFL | 5.1. Definition, main features and classification. 5.2. Learning strategies. Cognitive, metacognitive and social strategies 5.3. Communication strategies |
UNIT 5.- TYPES OF ENGLISH LEARNING CONTEXTS | 4.1. Naturalistic context vs. Classroom context 4.2. Instruction in the classroom: Form-focused instruction and meaning-focused instruction 4.3. Developments in teaching approaches 4.4. CLIL 4.4. Mixed Contexts: Stay-abroad programmes 4.5. The English classroom: Teaching the language: The ‘what’ and the ‘how’. Lesson planning and classroom management, cooperative learning |