230420 Language teaching methods for the secondary school (S) (SoSe 2015)

This course offers an historical survey of methods of teaching English as a
foreign language from 1950 to the present day and emphasises the
linguistic, psychological and didactic principles underlying the various
methods. Attention will also be given to the idea of anti-method in EFL teaching, to self-directed learning and learner self-regulation. The
hybrid nature of much current language teaching will be demonstrated and
the ways in which various methods have influenced the design of current textbooks will be touched on.

Students will be expected to briefly present a method each week and
provide a handout. Students will be asked to keep their own personal
diary of the course.

Literaturangaben

Course book:

Jack C. Richards and Theodore S. Rodgers. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching (Third edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2014.

Students must have this book because we will use it each
week. Please note this third edition is a major revision and the old
second edition is not suitable. The third edition is a green book.