1. Language and other communication systems: design features of language
2. ELT methodology (glottodidactics) and “sister” disciplines: the contribution of linguistics,
psychology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, applied linguistics, studies in second language acquisition
3. Major elements of the language learning/teaching process
4. Major methods of teaching – a historical development
· Comenius, Vietor, Jespersen, Sweet, Gouin and Palmer – their contributions to the development of language teaching theories
· grammar translation
· direct method
· the reading method and vocabulary selection
· the Army Specialised Training Programme
· the audiolingual method
· the cognitive method
· the communicative methodology
5. Humanistic approaches to language teaching
· the silent way
· the comprehension approach
· suggestopaedia
· community language learning
6. Less known teaching methods
· the Callan method
· the bilingual method
· the reproductive-creative method
· SITA learning
7. Teaching young learners and the Helen Doron method
8. Testing, syllabuses and their classification.
9. Technological aids in language teaching and learning
10.The various roles of the teacher in promoting learning
11.Glottodidactic terminology
1. First language acquisition – implications for language teaching: the age factor; critical
periods in language acquisition
2. Major theories of language development: behaviourism, mentalism, interactionism
3. Bilingualism as a goal of teaching [types]
4. Learning and transfer
5. The Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis [versions]
6. Error Analysis: the significance of errors and their types; attitudes to errors
7. The concept of interlanguage
8. Strategies of communication
9. Learner variables and learning foreign/second languages
10.Krashen’s Monitor Theory
11.The role of [pedagogic] grammar in learning/teaching
12.The Lexical Approach
13.Emotions and language learning
14.Motivation and language learning
III. PRACTICAL CLASSROOM ISSUES (e.g.) teaching individual skills and aspects of language, lesson structure, using L1/L2, the treatment of errors, the use of audiovisual aids, planning, management etc.)
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