English Teaching Methodology
Objectives
- To understand and critically consider issues, challenges and implications for intercultural communication and
foreign language (FL) education;
- To analyse social, cultural, political and linguistic factors involved in the process of intercultural
communication and FL education;
- To interpret, examine and discuss critically texts related to the topics in debate;
- To relate previous social and professional experience with with concepts and theory discussed in the
seminar;
- To reflect on intercultural learning as a transformative process of the self (personally, professionally,
academically).
- To examine the ways in which rhetorical processes mediate the construction of individual and collective
identities and meanings in specific cultural contexts.
- To analyse and reflect upon various forms of English as World Language today.
General characterization
Code
73216106
Credits
10.0
Responsible teacher
Ana Alexandra Gonçalves de Veloso e Matos
Hours
Weekly - 2
Total - 280
Teaching language
English
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
Coffey, Simon & Ursula Wingate (eds.) (2018). New Directions for Research in Foreign Language Education. London: Routledge.
Jackson, Jane (ed.) (2020). The Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural Communication (2nd ed.). NY: Routledge
LauSaskia, Sunny Man Chu & Van Viegen (2020). Plurilingual Pedagogies. Critical and Creative Endeavors for Equitable Language in Education. Springer
O’Dowd, Robert (2017). Online Intercultural Exchange and Language Education. Cham: Springer
Shaules, Joseph (2019). Language, Culture, and the Embodied Mind. Springer.
Teaching method
The teaching-learning process to be developed in this course unit takes place in a virtual environment (elearning, with recourse to the Moodle platform). The learning methods used combine individual study with
collaborative work. Students are required to carry out individual reading and research work and to develop a
critical reflection on the course materials. Collaborative work is to be conducted in discussion forums, in which
students are expected to participate by present the conclusions of their reflection on the course material,
debating specific questions or topics, and presenting and discussing their own course work and that
developed by their classmates.
Evaluation method
Evaluation Method - Assessment is based on the frequency and quality of participation in classroom sessions, online forum discussions and on individually submitted written works. (100%)
Subject matter
- Foundations of language education and interculturality
- Cultural dimensions of language and transnationality
- Language, identity and interculturality
- Cultural representation, othering and third space
- Intercultural communicative competence and intercultural citizenship
- Intercultural competence and language materials
- Rhetoric and culture
- Assessing intercultural communicative competence
- English as World Language: variations, deviations and new formatio