See for yourself. The theory and practice of teaching English with film - Einzelansicht

Monday 6 April 2020, 16-18. Please note that if you do not come to the first meeting, you run the risk of losing your place on the course.

The class will introduce students to an analytical framework, to extracts from films, to audio-visual clips, and to innovative ideas how to use them with intermediate and advanced learners in the EFL class. Scholars, educationalists and practitioners agree that EFL learners need to develop their pronunciation, their vocabulary and their grammatical skills in order to become proficient users of the foreign language. However, for many years pragmatic competence has played a marginal role in textbooks and in classrooms. With more emphasis being placed on language in use and communication in a globalized world, some scholars (e.g. Glaser 2009, 2013, Klimczak-Pawlak 2014, Röver 2007, 2009) have started to redress the balance by putting pragmatics on the TEFL agenda. With audio-visual media playing a central role in encountering a foreign language and culture, film provides teachers with valuable resources to integrate the teaching of pragmalinguistic topics into TEFL.

Students will be encouraged to connect theory with practice, and to design teaching ideas and materials appropriate for use with learners. In addition, they are given the opportunity to adopt the teacher’s role and teach a film extract of their own choice to young adults participating in classes for international learners of English. These lessons are conducted in cooperation with the Sprachlehrinstitut (SLI) and the PETE tutor. If you would like to participate in the Forschungsprojekt, please contact the tutor under ppete@uni-wuppertal.de

Required and to be purchased before the beginning of term:

Yule, George (1996). Pragmatics. Oxford: OUP.

Recommended:

Council of Europe (2001). Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment. Cambridge: CUP. Chapters One (The CEF in its political and educational context) and Five (The user/learner’s competence).

Council of Europe (2018). Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment. Companion Volume with New Descriptors

Both available from https://www.coe.int/en/web/common-european-framework-reference-languages

Please register via WUSEL between 17.02.2020 to 01.03.2020.
Registrations before or after this time will not be considered.

BA degree and successful completion of the D module as part of your BA.

2 LP: presentation (pair or group work; incl. a handout)

3 LP: presentation (pair or group work; incl. a handout) plus a written summary critique

6 LP (bilingual): presentation (pair or group work; incl. a handout) plus a written summary critique plus a written assignment (10 pages)

6 LP: tutorial with the PETE tutor, lesson in the SLI, presentation (incl. a handout) plus written paper based on a text of your own choice and teaching experience

Kombi-BA 2015: ANG-H-D (Komponente c)

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MEd 14, Lehramt G: Forschungsprojekt M-ENG 4 b

MEd 19, Lehramt G: Forschungsprojekt M-ENG 4b und c

MEd 14, MEd 19, Lehramt HR(S)Ge: M-ENG 6b

MEd 14, MEd 19, Lehramt GymGe/BK: M-ENG 9b

MEd 19 Lehramt GymGe /BK: Forschungsprojekt PFP b und c

MEd 17 Lehramt Sonderpädagogik: SP-ANG-DID b