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Lecturer(s)
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Klečková Gabriela, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Skopečková Eva, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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The course focuses on current issues in English language teaching in the Czech Republic and globally. Specifically, the course is organized around modules, focusing on the issue of teaching English to young learners and also addressing the use of translation and mother tongue in English language teaching. 1. Current approaches to teaching and learning a foreign language in younger school-age children. 2. Translation (and mother tongue) in foreign language teaching. 3. Translation as a process, translation as a product. 4. Selected theoretical approaches - functional approach to translation. 5. Selected procedures and activities (TILT, TOLC, etc.).
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Collaborative instruction, Cooperative instruction, Discussion, Multimedia supported teaching, Task-based study method, Textual studies, Seminar
- Contact hours
- 26 hours per semester
- Individual project (40)
- 20 hours per semester
- Presentation preparation (report in a foreign language) (10-15)
- 10 hours per semester
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| No particular prerequisites specified. |
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| No particular prerequisites specified. |
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| Knowledge |
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| describe the current state of a selected topic |
| know key sub-topics and issues of the selected topic |
| explain the importance of the selected topic |
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| discuss changes in the profession |
| apply new findings to their planning and teaching |
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| teaching methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Seminar |
| Multimedia supported teaching |
| Task-based study method |
| Textual studies |
| Collaborative instruction |
| Cooperative instruction |
| Discussion |
| Skills |
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| Seminar |
| Multimedia supported teaching |
| Task-based study method |
| Textual studies |
| Discussion |
| Cooperative instruction |
| Competences |
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| Seminar |
| Task-based study method |
| Discussion |
| assessment methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Continuous assessment |
| Project |
| Skills |
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| Project |
| Skills demonstration during practicum |
| Self-evaluation |
| Competences |
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| Project |
| Skills demonstration during practicum |
| Self-evaluation |
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Recommended literature
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BUTZKAMM, Wolfang, & CALDWELL, John A. The bilingual reform. A paradigm shift in foreign language teaching.. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2009. ISBN 9783823364924.
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COOK, Guy. Translation in language teaching.. Oxford: OUP, 2010. ISBN 978 019 4424752.
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GONZÁLEZ DAVIES, Maria. Multiple voices in the translation classroom: Activities, tasks and projects.. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 2004. ISBN 90 272 1661 4.
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KERR, Philip. Translation and own-language activities.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-107-64578-3.
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SLATTERY, Mary, & WILLIS, Jane. English for primary teachers: a handbook of activities and classroom language.. Oxford: Oxford University Press., 2001. ISBN 0-19-437563-3.
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