- •Methods of Foreign Language Teaching and its relation to other sciences.
- •Speak about the fundamental principles foreign language teaching should be based upon and name the specific principles which, you think, must be observed in teaching English at schools.
- •Aims of Foreign Language Teaching
- •Content of Foreign Language Teaching
- •Grammar Translation Method. Principles and techniques.
- •Direct Method. Principles and techniques.
- •Total Physical Response. Principles and techniques.
- •Audio-lingual method. Principles and techniques
- •Principles and techniques of Suggestopedia.
- •Communicative language teaching. Principles and techniques.
- •How do you understand the term “communicative competence in teaching a foreign language”? Types of Communicative Competence in foreign language teaching.
- •Intercultural communication and its role in foreign language teaching.
- •Grammar is very important in foreign language learning. Why? What were the most common difficulties you had in teaching English grammar at school?
- •How do you think, what is meant by correct pronunciation? What will you do to improve you student’s pronunciation skills? Prepare pronunciation drill for one of the lessons for beginners.
- •Comment on the main stages of teaching grammar. What will be if after presenting a new grammar material a teacher passes to production stage at once?
- •Comment on the main stages of teaching vocabulary. Principles of selection of lexical minimum at school.
- •What is the difference between extensive and intensive listening? What will you do if students don’t understand the listening material?
- •What are the reasons for pupils poor comprehension of the target language when spoken? Comment on the main stages of teaching listening skills. What techniques will you use to develop hearing?
- •The statement level.
- •The discourse level
- •20. The importance of teaching reading. Ways of reading.
- •1. Styles of reading
- •2. Active reading
- •22. State the role and place of writing as a communicative skill in teaching English.
- •23. Planning is a necessary prerequisite for effective teaching. Say why. List some questions you would ask yourself before planning a lesson. Stages of a lesson plan.
- •24.Assessment in teaching a foreign language at school. Forms of assessment.
- •In your opinion what characteristics of a good test are? Characteristics of a Good Test
- •Test types.
- •27. Testing techniques.
- •28. Express your opinion on advantages and disadvantages of using tests for evaluating students’ knowledge.
- •29. Teachers’ skills, attitude and knowledge that teachers need to acquire.
- •30.Part of a good teacher’s art is the ability to adopt a number of different roles in the class. Express your opinion on who teachers are in class.
- •31.What levels of language knowledge do you know? What do these levels mean, in practice, for the students and teachers? What will you do if students in your class are all at different level?
- •Ilr Level 0 – No proficiency
- •Ilr Level 1 – Elementary proficiency
- •Ilr Level 2 – Limited working proficiency
- •Ilr Level 3 – Professional working proficiency
- •Ilr Level 4 – Full professional proficiency
- •Ilr Level 5 – Native or bilingual proficiency
- •32. Types of lessons used in teaching English
- •33. What ways of young children learning to foreign languages do you know?
- •34.Teaching monologue. Characteristics of monologue.
- •35.Teaching dialogue. Characteristics of dialogue speech.
- •36.The use of modern technologies in teaching English.
- •37.Do you think that student’s motivation is important in learning a foreign language? Speak on the kinds of student’s motivation.
- •38.What is the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation?
- •39. What are learning styles and strategies? Give a definition and some examples for each one.
- •40. The theory of multiple intelligences.
- •42. Express your opinion: Not all oral exercises mean speaking. Comment upon this statement. What are the reasons for students’ poor comprehension of the target language when spoken?
- •Express your opinion on the theme: Modern technologies in teaching Foreign Languages ( Pair work, Case Study, Project work)
- •45 Express your opinion: What is cooperative learning? What are some of the most important benefits of cooperative learning?
- •46. Express your opinion on the theme: The notion of Intercultural Communicative Competence and its role in flt process.
- •48. Express your opinion on the theme: The main stages of work with video.
Aims of Foreign Language Teaching
Problems in Methods of FLT./ Aims, content and principles of teaching foreign languages
There are three main problems in Methods of FLT:
1) Why to teach i.e. aims of teaching a foreign language;
2) What to teach i.e. content of teaching;
3) How to teach a foreign language to attain the aims in the most effective way i.e. principles of teaching
Aims of teaching a foreign language. The term “aims” means long-term goals. They are the final results aimed at in an educational process. A teacher should know exactly what his students are expected to achieve in learning his subject at the end of the course, at the end of the year, term, month, week, and at each lesson, i.e. he should know the aims and objectives of foreign language teaching in schools or any other educational institutions: Educational, Cultural, Practical or Communicative.
Educational aims - While learning a foreign language students understand better how language functions and this makes them understand better the functioning of their own language. The educational aims may be classified under two main headings:
1. Teaching Language systems
2. Teaching Language skills
Language systems – Phonology, Lexis or vocabulary, Grammar, Function, Discourse
Language skills – what we do with language. There are four important language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing.
Cultural aim – to get acquainted with the life, culture and tradition of countries which language you study.
Practical aim – to learn a language for communication. To develop communicative competence of students is the main aim of teaching and learning.
Content of Foreign Language Teaching
Content of teaching – what to teach to attain the aims. There are three main components of what to teach to make students speak in a foreign language:
-psychological component: habits and skills which Ss should acquire while learning a FL. They are listening, speaking, reading, writing; the level of habits and skills is determined by the syllabus for each form
- linguistic component :
1. language material (sentence-patterns, pattern – dialogues, texts, topics);
2.linguistic material (phonology, grammar, vocabulary);
- methodological component: the techniques which students should acquire to learn the foreign language in the most effective way i.e. Ss should be taught how to learn and memorize words, how to use this or that grammar item in reading, writing and speaking.
The content of foreign language teaching does not depend on the aims and purposes only. On the contrary, the content itself may effect the formulation of the aim of language instruction. The content may be analysed from this point of view if it is conceived as a structure. The structural conception of the curriculum content enables the breaking down of the complex of aims into primary and secondary aims. The former are what is expected as the basis for achieving further, more specific aims. Among others, this approach makes possible to all those who formulate aims and contents of foreign language teaching, to shed fresh light on the practical implication of the linguistic research in the sphere of language analysis concerning the spoken and the written norms of a language.