DIDÁCTICA DE LA LENGUA INGLESA EN EDUCACIÓN PRIMARIA

(English Language Teaching in Primary Education)

 

 

TESL PROGRAMME/SYLLABUS - TEACHING GUIDE: Contents, Objectives, Methodology, Evaluation criteria, Bibliography

 

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS: DEVELOPMENT AND SAMPLE ACTIVITIES

 

THEORY:
1.     Learning and acquisition of languages. Theories and methods of teaching and learning.
2.     The content-based approach, CLIL and bilingualism in monolingual settings.
3.     Individual characteristics of Primary School children: age, gender, cognitive styles, learning strategies, motivation,
4.     The English curriculum in Primary Education: objectives, contents, activities and evaluation.
5.     Oral communication and communicative interaction. Developing the listening and speaking skills.
6.     Reading in a foreign language. Techniques: songs, rhymes, games and game-like activities.

7.     Writing in a foreign language. Teaching and learning techniques: rhymes, games, “pasatiempos”.
8.     Developing linguistic competence. The teaching and learning of grammar, vocabulary, phonetics and spelling.
9.     Discourse competence in the EFL Classroom. Texts for the teaching and learning of EFL. Songs.
10.   Materials and resources for ELT. The use of new technologies in the EFL class.
11.   Evaluation and testing.
12.   The FL teacher and class management. Preparation, presentation and exploitation of work.

 

PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES FOR SEMINARS (Click here):

In the previous section you can find practical activities and techniques related to the following:

1.   Teaching methods.
2.   Bilingual education.
3.   Teaching English to children and adults
4.   A teaching unit: content, objectives, skills, activities and evaluation.
5.   Oral communication in the LE. Analysis of textbook activities.
6.   Reading texts. Analysis of textbook reading activities.
7.   The written expression. Analysis of textbooks written activities
8.   Grammatical aspects, vocabulary, pronunciation, and communicative functions.
9.   The discursive competence of the students. Selection of songs and rhymes for teaching English.
10. New technologies.
11. The evaluation of oral and written communication skills.
12. Strategies for the management and control of the English class

 

COMPLEMENTARY MATERIALS:

 

CLIL:
Antecedents and connections
Theories on bilingualism
Plan de fomento del plurilinguismo andaluz
Plurilingual Education in Europe and the Andalusian Plurilingual Program

 

ESL CURRICULUM:
Sample Teaching Unit_Grade 6
Table for Teaching Unit Analysis
Common European Framework For Languages
European Language Portfolio_Primary
Language portfolio_teachers' guide_English

 

READING:
Reading aloud-Students' recording Grade 4-Primary Education
Reading aloud_recorded Topic 6: Reading (chapter 6): TEXT_script_Grade 4_Primary Education

 

WRITING:
Writing: Clasificación de errores ortográficos /Spelling errors taxonomy
Writing: Students' Written production_Texts_6th Grade_Primary

 

EVALUATION:
Evaluation: Sample ENGLISH TEST for Primary Education-6th Grade_Primary
Evaluation: English tests RESULTS & Descriptive statistics-6th Grade_Primary