This course has as its central tenet the fundamental learning processes enabling and facilitating the development and acquisition of an additional language and how these are made amenable to its instruction. Put more profanely, what is the best way to learn and teach English as an additional language? To investigate this, the course will focus on the socio-cultural and psychological dimensions of teaching English as a foreign language and how they affect pedagogical practices. In particular, the following dimensions will be addressed:
Content-based dimension to TEFL: CLIL, TBLT, and other approaches that teach curricular content through a foreign language; code switching and translanguaging
The task-based TEFL dimension: Task-as-workplan/process; Focus-on-form
Psychological dimensions of TEFL: FL2 confidence, anxiety, motivation and cognition
Skills-based dimensions in TEFL: Productive/receptive skills; assessment, vocabulary acquisition
ICT dimensions in TEFL: The roles of information and communication technology, digital literacies
- Trainer/in: Gierlinger Erwin Maria