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UNIOS University Unit: FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Study program
MA in English Studies
Study level
Graduate (master)
Course title
Teaching English to Young Learners
Course code (if any)
FIL02-020
Language of instruction
English
Brief course description
The theoretical part of the course gives an overview of fundamental
principles of teaching English to young learners (up to the age of 10).
The course covers the following topics: reasons for introducing early
foreign language learning into curricula, child’s characteristics in the
Piaget’s concrete-operational stage, children’s capacities and
constraints in learning a foreign language at an early stage of
linguistic, cognitive, affective and psychomotor development; a
survey of research in this area, a survey of approaches, procedures
and techniques in teaching grammar, lexis and the four language
skills appropriate for teaching English to young learners (games,
songs and chants, drama activities, stories, etc.); errors and error
treatment, the role of audiovisual aids in teaching young learners;
assessment and evaluation of young learners’ achievement; raising
awareness of language and culture. In the practical part of the
course students prepare and present a small-scale project, observe
and analyse, and prepare and teach lessons to young learners.
Form of teaching
Lectures and seminars
Form of assessment
continuous written assessment, project, designing and teaching a
lesson
Number of ECTS
5
Class hours per week
3
Minimum number of students
–
Period of realization
summer semester
Lecturer
Dr. Draženka Molnar, Assistant Professor