The aims of this course are:

1. ... to examine the rationale behind the use of the target language in the classroom:

• Affective outcomes:
  • generation of interest in language learning
  • generation of interest in the culture of the language
  • encouraging motivation
  • positive attitude change
  • personal involvement on the part of the learner.
• Cognitive outcomes:
  • Awareness of the range of language itself.
  • Development of critical thinking skills:
    • Making inference from linguistic clues
    • Deducing meaning from context
• Cultural outcomes
  • Source of cultural information.
• Development of language skills:
  • Opportunities for language enrichment.
  • Rich (and authentic) context of lexical, grammatical and syntactical items.
  • Different linguistic uses, forms and conventions:
    • Instructions, suggestions, commands, questions, comprehension, agreement, etc.

2. ... to examine classroom language appropriate for the English language class:

• Simple instructions
• Spontaneous situations
• Social interaction
• Pair- and group-work
• Question types
• Learner-training
• Needs analysis
• Audio-visual aids
• Error-correction
• Evaluation.

 

3. ... to examine how this language can be used in the language classroom:

• For the teacher/trainee:

1. Give students maximum exposure to English.
2. Use English for frequent expressions in the classroom
   (e.g. "Open you books").
3. Use English for simple instructions
   (e.g. "Please listen to me." "Let's do the pair-work task on page 35.").
4. Use English for simple questions
   (e.g. "What's the date?" "What's the time?").
5. Use English for simple interactions
   (e.g. "How are you today?" "Where do you live?").
6. Use English for classroom management
   (e.g. "Please sit with your partner." "Get in your groups." "Find a new partner.").

 

• For the student/learner:

1. Use English for checking meaning
   (e.g. "What did you say?" "What does it mean?" "One more time, please" "How do you spell it?" "I don't understand").
2. Use English for negotiating meaning
   (e.g. "What does this mean?" "How do we do this activity?" "Whose turn is it?").
3. Use English for simple questions
   (e.g. "What's the date?" "What's the time?").
4. Use English for simple interactions
   (e.g. "How are you today?" "Where do you live?").