Supervised Teaching Practice Seminar in the Teaching of English and Spanish
Objectives
a) Demonstrate the ability to research and read relevant literature.
b) Demonstrate the ability of relating and articulating concepts and readings with ones educational experience.
c) Demonstrate critical analysis skills.
d) Display learning and openness to change through a process of reflective thinking.
e) Contribute ethically to the creation of a responsible working atmosphere within ones group.
f) Master the global organisation of the text displaying coherence.
g) Write in appropriate scholarly style, respecting quotation and bibliographic referencing norms.
h) Write with objectivity, concision and fluency, correctly applying gramar and spelling rules.
General characterization
Code
722160040
Credits
5.0
Responsible teacher
Ana Alexandra Gonçalves de Veloso e Matos
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - 140
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
Ceia, C. (2012). Normas para Apresentação de Trabalhos Científicos, 9ª ed. Lisboa: Editorial Presença.
Estrela, A. (2001), Investigação em Educação: Métodos e Técnicas, Lisboa: Educa.
Fabb, N. and Durant, A. (2005). How to Write Essays and Dissertations. 2nd ed. Harlow: Pearson Education.
Lamas, E. (coord.) (2001). Dicionário de Metalinguagens da Didáctica. Porto: Porto Editora.
McNiff, Jean. (2002). Action Research: Principles and Practice. London: Routledge.
Teaching method
Presentation and discussion of research questions and issues in FL education. Analysis of action research projects and study cases; critical and reflective analysis of the research project and of FL teaching and learning practice.
Individual and small group tutoring sessions to support the organisation and writing of the reports chapter.
Evaluation method
Continuous assessment based on practical tasks, tutorials and self-guided learning. Writing a theoretically sustained chapter of the final report analysing critically teaching and learning processes in articulation with theoretical assumptions and research/teaching practice outcomes. A minimum of 70% of sessions attendance is required. (100%)
Subject matter
a) The pertinence of the teacher-researcher concept.
b) Educational research methodologies.
c) Research in foreign language education.
d) Research questions and objectives.
e) Data collection and analysis; presentation and discussion of results.
f) Searching, synthesizing, summarizing and critiquing literatures.
g) Textual organization and planning.
h) Evaluation of educational research.