Supervised Teaching Practice Seminar in the Teaching of English and Spanish
Objectives
a) Reflect on the work of the Foreign Language educator
b) Demonstrate the ability to research and read relevant literature.
c) Relate and articulate concepts and readings with one’s educational practice.
d) Reviews the literature critically and displays professional and personnal self-assessment competence
e) Display learning and openness to change through a process of reflective thinking.
f) Contribute ethically to the creation of a responsible working atmosphere within one’s group.
g) Master the global organization of the text displaying coherence.
h) Write in appropriate scholarly style, respecting quotation and bibliographic referencing norms.
i) Write with objectivity, conciseness and fluency, mastering grammar and spelling.
General characterization
Code
02108658
Credits
2.0
Responsible teacher
Lili Lopes Cavalheiro
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - 56
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
N/A
Bibliography
- CoE (2018) CEFR/CV
- CoE (2018) Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture.
- Hua, Z. (2014) Exploring Intercultural Communication Language in Action. Routledge
- May, S. et al. (eds) (2017) Research Methods in Language and Education. Springer
- Newby, D. et al. (2007) The European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages - a Reflection tool for language teacher education. ECML
- Raya, J. & F. Vieira (2018) Teacher Education for Autonomy: case pedagogy as an empowering interspace. In OECD (2021) A Good Start in Uncertain Times. Preparing Teachers for a Successful Career. Education Policy Perspectives, nº28
- Teaching and Teacher Education [international multidisciplinary journal]
Teaching method
Presentation and discussion of research questions and issues in teaching Englishas a FL.
Individual and small group tutoring sessions to support the organisation of the research project to be implemented.
Evaluation method
Continuous assessment - Continuous assessment based on practical tasks, tutorials and self-guided learning(30%), Preparation of the literature review on the chosen topic to research(70%)
Subject matter
a) The practice of the teacher-researcher.
b) The reflective model.
c) EPOSTL as self assessment and reflective practice tool
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.
Programs
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