2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

EDUC5932M Analysing Language Teaching

15 creditsClass Size: 300

Module manager: Dr Loreto Aliaga-Salas
Email: L.A.Aliaga-Salas@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

Co-requisites

EDUC5931

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

This module will provide you with an overview of fundamental issues in language teaching, and tries to make clear connections between what teachers do and ask learners to do in the classroom and theories of learning and teaching. The module will serve as a foundation, along with Analysing Language, and Analysing Language Learning, for your practical and theoretical studies in language teaching methodology in the second semester.

Objectives

On completion of this module, you should:

- Appraise key Socio-cultural concepts in learning, such as zone of proximal development, mediation, and scaffolding.

- Determine how historical and current approaches to teaching languages construct the practice of supporting language learning.

- Appraise the way teachers may scaffold language learning in classrooms through interaction and task design and

Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module you will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:

1. Explain the key concepts in learning and teaching underpinned by sociocultural theory, including the zone of proximal development, mediation, and scaffolding.

2. Analyse some of the practical ways teachers scaffold the construction of knowledge by observing video-recorded lessons

3. Examine the different roles language teachers must perform in the classroom to scaffold language learning.

Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module you will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:

1. Engage critically in the development of professional and disciplinary boundaries and norms, which are situated in a specific educational context.

2. Appraise an educational context critically by interacting with other actors, drawing on a context’s sociocultural and political background, and its relevant English-language teaching policies.

Syllabus

Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Supervision	1	1.00	1.00
Seminar	5	2.00	10.00
Independent online learning hours			15.00
Private study hours			124.00
Total Contact hours			11.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			150.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Progress will be monitored from observation of the preparation for and contribution to the discussion in the sessions.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Assignment	Coursework	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 31/07/2024 16:25:47

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