8. Recent Developments in Foreign Language Teaching Pedagogy

magic wandThe final unit of the course focuses on recent approaches in foreign language teaching. More specifically, it begins with a detailed overview of the main principles and features of the communicative approach, principles of communicative activities and its drawbacks. This leads to the presentation of the rationale and main features of task based language learning and the design task based lessons. The unit closes with a presentation of culture in language teaching and the importance of developing students’ intercultural competence.

Presentations

Unit 8: Recent Developments in Foreign Language Teaching Pedagogy (PDF)
Unit 8: Recent Developments in Foreign Language Teaching Pedagogy (PPT)

 

Videolectures

Unit 8: Recent Developments in Foreign Language Teaching Pedagogy (Part A)
Unit 8: Recent Developments in Foreign Language Teaching Pedagogy (Part B)

 

Reader and Workbook

Unit 8: Recent Developments in Foreign Language Teaching Pedagogy (PDF)
Unit 8: Recent Developments in Foreign Language Teaching Pedagogy (DOC)

 

Further Readings

Bax, S. (2003). The end of CLT: A context approach to language teachingELT journal57(3), 278-287.

Carless, D. (2002). Implementing task‐based learning with young learnersELT journal56(4), 389-396.

Carless, D. (2007). The suitability of task-based approaches for secondary schools: Perspectives from Hong KongSystem35(4), 595-608.

Crabbe, D. (2007). Learning opportunities: adding learning value to tasksELT Journal61(2), 117-125.

Foster, P. (1999). Task-based learning and pedagogy. ELT Journal,53(1), 69 –70.

Karavas-Doukas, E. (1996). Using attitude scales to investigate teachers' attitudes to the communicative approachELT journal50(3), 187-198.

Littlewood, W. (2004). The task-based approach: Some questions and suggestionsELT journal58(4), 319-326.

Murphy, J. (2003). Task‐based learning: the interaction between tasks and learnersELT journal57(4), 352-360.

Seedhouse, P. (1999). Task-based interactionELT journal53(3), 149-156.

Senior, R. M. (2002). A class‐centred approach to language teachingELT Journal56(4), 397-403.

Thompson, G. (1996). Some misconceptions about communicative language teachingELT journal50(1), 9-15.