Didaktika 1 (ELT1)

BA 2023/2024

Jela Kehoe

 

Topics covered:

 

The changing world of English.

Describing the English language 1

Describing the English language 2

Teaching English in Slovakia: history (Grammar Translation Method), present status and future. 

TEFL teacher – professional criteria, training, life-long education, legislation. 

TEFL learner: identifying learners’ learning styles and how to facilitate learning needs of learners with various learning styles.

Bloom’s taxonomy in EFL classroom.

Critical period hypothesis. Developmental psycholinguistics and TEFL. 

Teaching English to very young and young learners.

Teaching English to teenagers and adults.

 

Evaluation: oral exam.

 

 

Literature: 

Cimermanová, I.: Using Technologies in Language Teaching, Prešovská univerzita v Prešove: Prešov. 2011. 

Gondová, D.: Taking first steps in teaching English: assessing learners. Žilina : University of Žilina, 2010. 

Gondová, D.: Taking first steps in teaching English: teaching systems Žilina : Žilinská univerzita, 2012. 

Harmer, J.: The Practice of English Language Teaching. Harlow: Pearson, 2007

Larsen-Freeman, Diane: Techniques and Principles in Language Learning. 2008 

Pokrivčáková, S.: Modern Teacher of English. Nitra: ASPA, 2010. 

Pokrivčáková, S.: Teaching Techniques for Modern Teachers of English. Nitra: ASPA, 2013. 

Straková, Z. – Cimermanová, I.: Učiteľ cudzieho jazyka v kontexte primárneho vzdelávania. Prešov: Prešovská univerzita, 2010. 

Žemberová, I.: Teaching English through Children´s Literature. - Nitra : ASPA, 2010.

Series of the proceedings Cudzie jazyky (a kultúry) v škole 1 – 10 

 

https://archive.org/details/essentialteacherknowledge/page/n3/mode/2up