Browse Hierarchy EAL7300: Teaching Languages: Approaches and Methods

"Teaching Languages: Approaches and Methods" is the first of two compulsory modules on the MA in Language Teaching. You will undertake a comprehensive overview of the main approaches and methods in language teaching. The areas to be covered include: - Early approaches and methods: Grammar-Translation Method, Direct Method, Oral Approach, Situational Language Teaching, and Audiolingual Method -Current Approaches and Methods: Communicative Language Teaching, Task-Based Language Teaching, Text-based Instruction, Content-Based Instruction, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Competency-Based Language Teaching; Post-method and principled eclecticism - Teaching the four skills across contemporary approaches and methods - Standards and the Common European Framework of Reference - Testing, Evaluation and Assessment. You will also study a language as part of the module and be required to maintain a critically reflective diary each week.