Module manager: Dr Loreto Aliaga-Salas
Email: L.A.Aliaga-Salas@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
| EDUC5931 |
This module is not approved as an Elective
This module will provide you with an overview of fundamental issues in language teaching, and tries to make clear connections between what teachers do and ask learners to do in the classroom and theories of learning and teaching. The module will serve as a foundation, along with Analysing Language, and Analysing Language Learning, for your practical and theoretical studies in language teaching methodology in the second semester.
On completion of this module, you should:
- Appraise key Socio-cultural concepts in learning, such as zone of proximal development, mediation, and scaffolding.
- Determine how historical and current approaches to teaching languages construct the practice of supporting language learning.
- Appraise the way teachers may scaffold language learning in classrooms through interaction and task design and
On successful completion of the module you will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Explain the key concepts in learning and teaching underpinned by sociocultural theory, including the zone of proximal development, mediation, and scaffolding.
2. Analyse some of the practical ways teachers scaffold the construction of knowledge by observing video-recorded lessons
3. Examine the different roles language teachers must perform in the classroom to scaffold language learning.
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module you will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
1. Engage critically in the development of professional and disciplinary boundaries and norms, which are situated in a specific educational context.
2. Appraise an educational context critically by interacting with other actors, drawing on a context’s sociocultural and political background, and its relevant English-language teaching policies.
Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supervision | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Seminar | 5 | 2 | 10 |
| Independent online learning hours | 15 | ||
| Private study hours | 124 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 11 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 150 | ||
Progress will be monitored from observation of the preparation for and contribution to the discussion in the sessions.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Assignment | Coursework | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 31/07/2024
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