Students …

• know and understand major issues and current trends in foreign language learning and teaching
• reflect on their role as foreign language learners and future foreign language teachers
• can implement theoretical approaches to foreign language teaching in the classroom

• Competency-Based Language Teaching: Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) and current curricula

• Communicative and Action-oriented Language Teaching: methods and principles; (integrated) skills; Action and Task-based Language Teaching;
• Language acquisition theories in the context of foreign language teaching
• Multilingual approaches in the foreign language classroom
• Inter, transcultural and global learning in the foreign language classroom
• Diversity and inclusion in the foreign language classroom
• Media in the foreign language classroom
• Affective and motivational aspects in foreign language teaching

Team teaching , lecture, pair and group work.

combined

to be announced in class

Successful completion of Compulsory Module 5 (Subject: English) or Compulsory Module 6 (Subject: French/Italian/Russian/Spanish) Bachelor's Programme Secondary School Teacher Training (General Education). A requirement for the admission is also the parallel registration for this course and for one of the language-specific workshops (both part of Compulsory Module 1 “Foundations in Modern Language Teaching and Learning”).

This course is part of Compulsory Module 1 (“Foundations in Modern Language Teaching and Learning”) Bachelor's Programme Secondary School Teacher Training (General Education) Subject: English, French, Italian, Russian and Spanish. The admission to the course follows the conditions of admission (for information please consult the IMoF website: https://www.uibk.ac.at/imof/studium/).

Course commencement: Gr. 1 -  Gr. 5: see dates