Didactics of English for Young Learners

Code:

MEBI004

Acronym:

DIC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Didactics

Instance: 2016/2017 - 2S

Active?	Yes
E-learning page:	http://moodle.up.pt/
Responsible unit:	Department of Anglo-American Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Teaching English in the 1st cycle of Basic Education

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MEBI	6	MEBI - Study Plan	1	-	9	78	243

Teaching language

English

Objectives

Learning outcomes and competences

Intended learning outcomes (knowledge, skills and competences to be developed by the students). By the end of this curricular unit, students should:

1. be able to understand the primary educational context, curricula, learning objectives and stakeholder
    involvement in order to determine appropriate conditions for learning English as a foreign language;
2. have a deeper insight into the underlying principles of methodological approaches to teaching English to
    young learners by drawing on key aspects of child development;
3. be able to examine approaches and techniques for teaching young learners with a view to their practical
    application in the classroom;
4. have developed intellectual and practical skills related to the analysis and construction of coherent
    lesson plans ;
5. have demonstrated their ability to design a range of practical classroom activities and materials for
    future use during their teaching practice.

Working method

Presencial

Program

• The classroom community and beyond: learning from, with and about each other;


• Intercultural education for children


• Attitudes and approaches to teaching children;


• Appropriate methodology and techniques;


• Thinking skills;


• Scaffolding learning;


• Teaching vocabulary;


• Language skills development;


• Cross-curricular activity-based learning;


• The role of literature;


• Drama;


• Sound, rhythm, music and songs;


• Planning units of work and lessons;


• Task and materials design;


• Teaching resources;


• Classroom management;


• Dealing with discipline;


• Learner autonomy: learning how to learn;


• Assessment.

Mandatory literature

Brewster, J. Ellis, G & Girard, D.; The Primary English Teacher’s Guide, Pearson Education Limited, 1992
Cameron, L.; Teaching Languages to Young Learners., CUP, 2001
Lightbown, P. & Spada, N.; How Languages are Learned, OUP, 1993
Nunan, D.; Teaching English to Young Learners , Anaheim University Press, 2010
Pinter A.; Children Learning Languages, CUP, 2011
Pinter A; Teaching Young Language Learners, OUP, 2006

Complementary Bibliography

Bland, J. (ed); Teaching English to Young Learners: Critical Issues in Language Teaching with 3-12 year olds, Bloomsbury, 2015
Ellis, G. & Brewster J. ; The New Storytelling Handbook for Primary Teachers, Penguin, 2002
Fleetham. M.; How to create and develop a thinking classroom, LDA, 2003
Gibbons, P.; Scaffolding language, scaffolding learning, Heinemann, 2002
Halliwell, S. ; Teaching English in the Primary School, Longman, 1994
Ioannou-Georgio, S. & Pavlou, P.; Assessing Young Learners., OUP, 2005
O’Reirdon, Terry & Roffey; .Young Children and Classroom Behaviour, David Fulton Publishers, 2001
Kang Shin, J. & Crandall, J. ; Teaching Young Learners English: From Theory to Practice, Heinle, 2014
Mourão, S. ; Real Books in the Primary Classroom, Mary Glasgow, 2004
Puchta, H. & Williams, M; Teaching Young Learners to Think, Helbing Languages, 2011
Vale, D & Feunteun A.; Teaching Children English, CUP, 2001
Wray, D. & Medwell, J.; Teaching Primary English: The State of the Art., Routledge, 2004

Teaching methods and learning activities

keywords

Humanities

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Prova oral	20,00
Teste	40,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	85,00
Frequência das aulas	78,00
Trabalho de investigação	80,00
Total:	243,00

Eligibility for exams

All students are required to attend 75% of classes, with exceptions according to FLUP regulations. Official worker students are not required to attend lessons but must take all components of continual evaluation on the dates specified in the course timetable.

Calculation formula of final grade

Continuous Assessment:

Written tests: 40%
Written coursework: 40%
Micro-teaching: 20%

Classification improvement

According to FLUP regulations

Observations

Students who do not pass this curricular unit cannot proceed to the final teaching practice in Semester 3.