Assignments

Identify a lesson plan from your teaching practice (or current teaching experience that you would like to discuss with your peers. It is up to you if you choose a skill or knowledge driven lesson. It doesnt matter whether the lesson was a disaster or a successful one. We will examine not the quality of the lesson but your ability to discuss the plan and the lesson in relation to the theory of language teaching. 

When presenting the lesson plan in class, be ready to provide comprehensive explanation and justification of the planned procedures – tasks and activities presented in the lesson plan with respect to the lesson goals: Why did you do what you did? Support your views with theory and use appropriate ELT terminology when discussing your plan. If needed, mention anything you would do differently next time if the lesson were taught again and explain why you would make those changes.

Once you have your lesson plan identified, transfer its contents into the template provided below and upload it to the folder below.

Go to the website at the bottom and meet Doubravka, an English teacher.

• Read 1.1.
• Read 1.2. – 8. ročník
• Watch 1.3. – osmý ročník (2nd tab at the top)
• Watch 1.4.1 – osmý ročník
• Read 1.4.2 – hodina v 8. třídě
• Read 1.4.3

Complete the chart. You may refer to your assignment from the first methods course to make sure what is involved in the different principles.

Read the text on the principles of instructed language learning as they are presented in an extract from Exploring Language Pedagogy through Second Language Acquisition Research by Ellis and Shintani. Create your own list of principles and procedures that should be implemented in language teaching to result in language acquisition.