Module EFPM280 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
EFPM280: Developing Practical Knowledge for TESOL Teaching
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Aims
- To provide students with a thorough understanding of the relationship between theoretical perspectives and different TESOL classroom practices.
- To provide an introduction to key concepts associated with the practice of foreign or second language teaching.
- To familiarize students with the core competencies associated with successful practice in TESOL classrooms from both a theoretical and practical perspective.
- To develop students’ capacity to successfully apply conceptual and practical knowledge about foreign or second language practice to the realities of their own current and/or future teaching contexts.
- To develop students’ capacity to reflect critically on their own teaching as well as their peers’.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the key aspects of classroom practice including the organisation of activities, classroom management, and classroom interaction; 2. Demonstrate a critical application of these skills and knowledge in the preparation and teaching of a language class; 3. Demonstrate the ability to successfully apply conceptual and practical knowledge and skills to teaching activities in the TESOL classroom in a rigorous and systematic way; 4. Reflect critically upon observed teaching and microteaching in relation to key principles covered in the module; |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 5. Demonstrate the knowledge, understanding and skills for students required in order to analyse TESOL policy, theory and practice; 6. Demonstrate the ability to analyse data for teaching purposes; 7. Evaluate complex TESOL issues drawing on national and international perspectives; 8. To provide students with knowledge and skills needed to apply theory to practice in TESOL; |
Personal and Key Skills | 9. Engage in independent study and group/pair work, including the microteaching and evaluation of peers' teaching and their own; 10. Digest, select and organise material to produce, to a deadline, a coherent, thoughtful and creative analysis of theory to particular professional and socio-cultural situations; 11. Undertake a critical analysis of the teaching skills, knowledge and techniques developed in the module through personal reflection. |
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
The syllabus plan is subject to change, but is anticipated to include the following:
Introduction to the module: What does language teaching involve? Total immersion/ESL versus drip feed EFL contexts. Learning theories.
Communicative Competence & implications for teachers’ and learners’ roles.
Review of language teaching methods; terminology for TESOL; preparation for observations of language classes.
The role of error in language learning.
Techniques for introducing and practicing new language (1) & (2)
Micro teaching practice (1), focusing on the practical application of content covered in the module.
Teaching reflection; classroom management; giving instructions; questioning techniques; dealing with large classes and mixed ability.
Individual presentations on students’ observations of language classes; identifying key topics.
Task based Learning
Micro teaching practice (2)
Round up & summary of course; individual presentations to report on topics chosen for module assignment.
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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150 | 150 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Learning and teaching activities | 30 | Lectures, seminars, tutorials and workshops |
Learning and teaching activities | 30 | Directed reading |
Guided independent study | 80 | Assignment preparation |
Guided independent study | 150 | Independent study |
Learning and teaching activities | 10 | Language classroom observation |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Cook, V. 2016. Second Language Learning and Language Teaching (5th Edition) Routledge: Oxford.
Lightbown, P. & Spada, N. 2013. How languages are learned. Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers (4th edition) Oxford University Press: Oxford.
Hall, G. Exploring English Language Teaching. 2018. (2nd Edition) Routledge: London.
Hall, G. The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teaching. 2016. Routledge: London.
Scrivener, J. 2011. Learning Teaching (3rd Edition, with DVD) Macmillan.
Harmer, J. 2015. The Practice of English Language Teaching (3rd Edition). Harlow: Longman.