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

First meeting: 3 April 2019, 8:30-10

Please note that if you do not come to the first meeting, you run the risk of losing your place on the course.

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, video-clips, DVDs, and online films in the original provide teachers with valuable resources to integrate the teaching of pragmalinguistic topics into TEFL. 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. 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 can be a part of the project ‘PETE’ (Peer-Teaching and Peer-Coaching) that is conducted in cooperation with the Sprachlehrinstitut (SLI) and an additional tutorial. If you would like to participate in the PETE project as Forschungsprojekt to obtain additional credit points, 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 18.02.2019 to 03.03.2019.
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: tutorial in the PETE programme, lesson in the PETE programme, presentation (incl. a handout) plus written exam based on a text of your own choice and teaching experience

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

Kombi-BA : D

MEd 14 Lehramt Gym/Ge, BK: M-ENG 9 b

MEd 14 Lehramt Gym/Ge, BK: M-ENG 9 b und PFP (PETE ‘Forschungsprojekt’ in combination with the tutorial)

MEd 14 Lehramt H, R, Ge: M-ENG 6 b

MEd 14 Lehramt Grundschule: M-ENG 3 b

MEd 14 Lehramt Grundschule: M-ENG 3 b und M-ENG4 (plus optional: PETE ‘Forschungsprojekt’ in combination with the tutorial)

MEd 17 Sonderpädagogik: SP-ANG-DID b