L3

Semester: 05
Teaching Unit: Fundamental 3
Module: Didactics
Credits: 02
Coefficient: 01

Course Objectives

• To develop the students' knowledge and skills to teach English as a foreign language at the middle and the secondary school.
• To demonstrate an understanding of teaching as a system of interrelated elements (objectives, content, method, media, assessment...).

To demonstrate appropriate skills for teaching the four skills, grammar and vocabulary.

 Prerequisite

• Basic knowledge of language and language learning theories.
• A good mastery of spoken and written English.

Subject Contents

• An Introduction to Didactics: the learner and teacher. 
• A Systematic Approach to Teaching. 
• Approaches, Methods and Techniques.
• Curriculum and Syllabus.
• Aims/ Goal and Objectives.
• Content Organisation and Selection.
• Material and Media

Assessment
100% Written exam.

Sources and references
Harmer, J. (2007).The Practice of English Language Teaching(4thedition). England: Longman.  Larsen-Freeman, D., & Anderson, M. (2011). Techniques and principles in language teaching (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press.
Renshaw, Jason (2007), Boost! Speaking, Longman, Hong Kong.
Richards, J. C., & Rodgers, T. S. (2014). Approaches and methods in language teaching (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Thornbury, Scott, (1999). How to teach grammar. Harlow: Longman.