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Programme and Module Handbook

Undergraduate Programme and Module Handbook 2005-2006 (archived)

Module EDUS1671: MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES 1

Department: EDUCATION [Queen's Campus, Stockton]

EDUS1671: MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES 1

Type Tied Level 1 Credits 20 Availability Available in 2005/06 Module Cap None. Location Queen's Campus Stockton
Tied to X100

Prerequisites

  • None.

Corequisites

  • None.

Excluded Combination of Modules

  • None.

Aims

  • To develop students' understanding and knowledge of a modern foreign language, with particular reference to speaking and listening.
  • To develop strategies for delivering modern foreign languages within the primary classroom, with particular emphasis on speaking and listening.
  • To develop students' understanding of key concepts related to the teaching of modern foreign languages, with particular emphasis on speaking and listening.

Content

  • Building an appropriate bank of vocabulary (classroom and topic vocabulary) for a variety of contexts.
  • Target language and its uses in the classroom.
  • Pronunciation.
  • Role of ICT in learning foreign languages.
  • Listening techniques.
  • Strategies for planning and developing teaching episodes.
  • Contact with native speakers.
  • Issues related to language and cultural awareness.
  • History/background concerning the teaching/learning of a modern foreign language in the primary school.

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:
  • Students should be able to demonstrate: appropriate oral proficiency in German or Spanish.
  • an appropriate aural competence in German or Spanish.
  • an understanding of key issues which have shaped the teaching of modern foreign languages.
Subject-specific Skills:
  • a basic competence in planning and teaching modern foreign languages in the primary school.
  • think critically and independently;
  • analyse, synthesise and evaluate primary and/or secondary data;
  • critically analyse literature on a variety of contemporary education issues;
  • construct and sustain a reasoned argument.
  • observe, record and relate educational practice to theory in primary schools and classrooms;
Key Skills:
  • communicate ideas, principles and theories effectively in a variety of ways;
  • work effectively on given tasks and activities;
  • use Information and Communications Technology in a variety of ways;
  • manage time and work to deadlines.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

  • Teaching methods will include lectures, seminars and workshops.
  • These mechanisms allow for the different learning outcomes to be addressed.
  • Lectures will focus on specific issues, seminars allow for in-depth discussion of relevant ideas and workshops will facilitate language development.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Activity Number Frequency Duration Total/Hours
Lectures 22 Weekly 1 hour 22
Tutorials, Seminars and Practicals 22 Weekly 1.5 hours 33
Fieldwork School-based 16 hours 16
Preparation and Reading 129
Total 200

Summative Assessment

Component: Coursework Assignment 1 Component Weighting: 25%
Element Length / duration Element Weighting Resit Opportunity
thirty-minute oral examination 100%
Component: Coursework Assignment 2 Component Weighting: 25%
Element Length / duration Element Weighting Resit Opportunity
thirty-minute aural examination 100%
Component: Examination Component Weighting: 50%
Element Length / duration Element Weighting Resit Opportunity
two-hour examination 100%

Formative Assessment:

Tutorial presentations, workshop participation.


Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University