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Teaching foreign languages: theories, methods and tools

Teaching foreign languages: theories, methods and tools

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Last Update 05/02/2024
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  • Lecture 1. To begin to orient yourself in the discipline
    • Course Description
  • Lec. 1 - Unit 0
    • Introduction
    • What we will cover
    • What we will deal with/2
    • What we will deal with/3
  • Lec. 1 - Unit 1 : The actors in the field
    • What is foreign language teaching?
    • Languages, societies and learners
  • Unit 2 - Teaching, learning, acquiring
    • Verbs to indicate different things
    • Verbs to indicate different things/2
    • Verbs to indicate different things/3
  • Unit 3 - Mother tongue, second language, foreign language
    • What languages ​​are learned and how to name them?
    • Which languages ​​are learned and how to name them?/2
    • Do you have to know the rules to speak or do you have to know how to communicate?
  • Unit 4 - Linguistic-communicative competence
    • Do you have to know the rules to speak or do you have to know how to communicate?/2
  • Unit 5 – Bilingualism
    • How do you get to be bilingual
    • How do you become bilingual/2
    • How do you become bilingual/3
  • Unit 6 - An Example: history of language education in Italy
    • The origins
    • The origins/2
  • Unit 7 - The audiences who approach foreign languages ​​today in Italy and in the world
    • Italians and foreign languages
    • Italians and foreign languages/2
  • Unit 8 - The contexts of learning a foreign language
    • Where are foreign languages ​​learned?
    • Where are foreign languages ​​learned?/2
  • Unit 9 - The European Union's proposals for the promotion of foreign languages
    • Which language for European society?
    • Which language for Europe?
  • Unit 10 - Too many languages ​​for one society?
    • The role of the English language among other languages
  • Unit 11 - The main theoretical hypotheses
    • The role of the mind and the environment
    • The role of the mind and the environment/2
    • The role of the mind and the environment/3
  • Unit 12 - The role of age
    • The critical age/1
    • The critical age/2
  • Unit 13 - The role of motivation
    • What motivations push us towards an L2?
    • What motivations push us towards an L2?/2
  • Unit 14 - The role of factors external to the individual
    • How the external environment affects language acquisition
    • How the external environment affects language acquisition/2
  • Unit 15 - The interlanguage hypothesis
    • Interlingua as a network of rules
    • Interlingua as a network of rules/2
  • Unit 16 - From method to approach. The evolution that has taken place in the teaching of foreign languages
    • Is there only one way to teach foreign languages?
    • Is there only one way to teach foreign languages?/2
  • Unit 17 - The most common methods
    • From the dictator teacher to the tutor teacher
    • From the dictator teacher to the tutor teacher/2
  • Unit 18 - The foreign language teacher
    • A new role for the language teacher
    • A new role for the language teacher/2
  • Lec. 4 - Unit 19 - New skills for the foreign language teacher
    • The minimum skills for an L2 teacher
  • Lesson 5. How to plan and implement an educational program in a foreign language
    • Where do you start to create a language course?
  • Lec. 5 - Unit 20 - How to design a foreign language course
    • From needs analysis to syllabus creation
    • From the needs analysis to the creation of the syllabus/2
  • Lec. 5 - Unit 21 - Operational models
    • Operational models
    • The architecture of a foreign language lesson
    • The architecture of a foreign language lesson/2
  • Lec. 5 - Unit 22 - The skills and abilities to develop in the classroom
    • The principles for organizing a foreign language course
    • The principles for organizing a foreign language course/2
  • Lec. 5 - Unit 23 - Evaluate and verify the skills acquired
    • Evaluate and verify the skills acquired
    • When and how to analyze the interlingua of the students
    • When and how to analyze the interlingua of the students/2
  • Lec. 5 - Unit 24 - Language certifications
    • Language certifications
    • Certify as an official document
    • Certify as official act/2
    • QUIZ
      10 xp
  • Lesson 6. The new frontiers of language learning: teaching with new technologies
    • The web applied to language teaching
  • Lec. 6 - Unit 25 - The web applied to language teaching
    • A journey that began a long time ago
  • Lec. 6 - Unit 26 - The online foreign language teacher
    • The online foreign language teacher
    • The new figures for online language teaching
    • The new figures for online language teaching/2
  • Lec 6 - Unit 27 - Environments for online language teaching
    • E-learning platforms
    • E-learning platforms/2
  • Lec 6 - Unit 28 - The tools available online
    • Select your network places
  • Lec. 6 - Unit 29 - The future of language teaching on the internet
    • The future is now
    • The future is now/2
    • Quiz
      10 xp