English Language Teaching Methodology 2 (BMNAT01200M) Time: Tursday 12.30

Lesson Planning & Test Design Place: Quaestura 102

Spring term 2016 /17 Course leader: Marianna Éder

Aims of the course:

  • to facilitate the development of cooperative learning habits and strategies through the given tasks and the adopted classroom organization techniques
  • to familiarise students with lesson- and test- types, and various principles to design them
  • to introduce students to course-book families, resource books and other supplementary materials available, and to equip them with criteria for choosing appropriate ones
  • based on the above considerations, to bring students to the point at which they can begin to function as competent professionals

Criteria of assessment:

  • regular attendance, absence allowed on two occasions only
  • active participation in group discussions, often based on selected readings
  • making presentations
  • thorough preparation and neat presentation of written assignments, meeting deadlines

Proposed timetable:

date / topic / readings
for the actual lesson / tasks, deadlines
for the actual lesson
16th
February / Lesson art and design, planning principles / briefing: forming groups,
division of labour
23rd
February / Sharing insights into writing activities, assessing actual ones;
connecting activities / Write 3 Whopper activities,
be prepared to present them.
2nd
March / Ethnographic
lesson observation / RIM: Lesson art and design by Thornbury
9th
March / Discussion on the lesson observed; focus on connecting activities and
fluency-accuracy;
introducing course-books / RIM: How to use textbooks by Harmer
Handout: choosing a course-book / Present observation sheets.
Introduce the chosen course-books.
Write A4 reminder for the group members / or give ppt presentation.
16th
March / Planning a sequence of activities to achieve
skills integration / Scrivener pp. 109-133 / Assignment 1
Integrated skills lesson
presentations
23rd
March / Approaches to teaching grammar; mapping the terrain: grammar presentation techniques / RIM: Why teach grammar? by Thornbury
Scrivener pp. 252-284 / Learn Thornbury by heart.
30th
March / Writing lesson 1:
collecting pre-, while-, post- writing activities, / Scrivener pp. 206-214 / Assignment 2
The grammar presentation lesson
6th
April / Writing lesson 2:
process writing, drafting, (written) error correction techniques / Scrivener pp. 192-206
RIM: Approaches to student writing by Harmer / Give an account on the writing tasks in the chosen coursebook.
EASTER BREAK
27th
April / Assessment and test types; end of unit progress tests / RIM: The backwash effect… by Prodromou / Assignment 3The writing lesson
4th
May / Principles for placement test design / Scrivener pp. 302-308 / Give an account on the test item types of the chosen book.
11th
May / Error correction techniques (spoken errors) / RIM: How to deal with grammar errors? by Thornbury
RIM: Continuous assessment by Heaton / Assignment 4
Placement test
18th
May / Unit planning,
extensive reading: using literature in the class / Read Manhood by John Wain / Collect 5 pre-reading and 5 while-reading activities to process the text.