LFU:online

This course accompanies and complements the “Einführung in die Didaktik des Fremdsprachenunterrichts”. The workshop sessions are closely linked with the topics covered in the “Einführung” and exemplify the language-specific practical implementation of the theoretical underpinnings of communicative and action-oriented language teaching.

Aims of this course include:
• experiencing the relationship between principles and practice
• reflecting critically the methodological principles behind language teaching practice
• generating practical ways of implementing principles of language teaching

A series of sessions aimed at experiencing communicative activities, analysing the underlying objectives and drawing conclusions for one's own teaching practice. Topics covered include: communicative use of media such as pictures/videos/songs and digital tools, creating lesson plans and semester planning, developing communicative learning tasks, promoting inter/transcultural learning and global learning, teaching vocabulary and grammar, motivating students and implementing a multilingual approach.

Mini-lecturettes, group, pair and individual work, open learning sessions

Classroom simulation 

Portfolio / dossier consisting of 3-4 tasks such as

-planning a term

-planning a lesson

-language portrait  or language learning biography

Active participation in class

To be announced in the first lesson.

Successful completion of compulsory module 5 of the Bachelor's degree programme Teaching Profession at Secondary Schools (General Education) Subject: English. Prerequisite for admission is also the parallel registration for this course and the course "Introduction to the Didactics of Foreign Language Teaching" (both part of the compulsory module 1 "Foundations in Modern Language Teaching and Learning").

This course is part of the compulsory module 1 ("Foundations in Modern Language Teaching and Learning") of the Bachelor's degree programme Teacher Training (General Education) Subject: English. Admission to the programme is in accordance with the admission requirements (information can be found on the IMoF website):

 https://www.uibk.ac.at/imof/studium/