Final Exams – Rozšiřující studium AJ pro ZŠ

Methodology

  1. Language learner – individual differences, learner autonomy
  2. Second language acquisition.
  3. Methods and approaches in ELT
  4. Listening skills in theory and practice
  5. Speaking skills in theory and practice
  6. Reading skills in theory and practice
  7. Writing skills in theory and practice
  8. Teaching and learning vocabulary
  9. Teaching and learning pronunciation
  10. Teaching and learning grammar
  11. Language teacher – roles, professional development
  12. Teaching materials
  13. Course design and lesson planning
  14. Modern approaches to assessment and evaluation
  15. Language learning and cultural awareness
  16. Mother tongue in ELT
  17. Literature in ELT
  18. Error correction in accuracy and fluency activities
  19. Modern technologies in the language classroom and e-learning
  20. Teaching English to heterogeneous classes
  21. Teaching learners with SLD

Recommended literature:

  • Ur, P. A Course in Language Teaching : Practice and Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  • Harmer, J. The Practice of English Language Teaching. 7th Edition. Essex: Longman Group UK Limited, 1994.
  • Harmer, J. How to Teach English. Essex: Longman Group UK Limited, 1998.
  • Scrivener, J. Learning Teaching. Oxford: Macmillan, 2005.

Note that for the final exam (methodology part) every student must study at least one of the recommended titles thoroughly.

Literature

The student answers the question with the help of a given worksheet.

British and American Literature

  1. Old English Literature.
  2. Medieval Literature 1066-1510
  3. Renaissance and Reformation: Literature 1510-1610
  4. Revolution and Restoration: Literature 1620-1690
  5. Eighteen-Century Literature 1690-1780
  6. American literature of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods
  7. The British Literature of the Romantic Period 1780-1830
  8. American Romanticism
  9. High Victorian Literature 1830-1880
  10. Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature 1880-1920
  11. American Realism and Naturalism in Literature
  12. British Modernism and its Alternatives: Literature 1920-1945
  13. American Modernism
  14. Postmodernism, USA
  15. British Novel after 1945
  16. Women Literature
  17. American Ethnic Literature after 1945
  18. British Diaspora

Linguistics

  1. Variation according to the user and according to the use. Varieties of English.
  2. The inventory of English phonemes from the teacher’s perspective.
  3. Rhythm and stress in English. Strong and weak syllables, strong and weak forms.
  4. Forms and functions of intonation. Basic functions of individual tones.
  5. Aspects of connected speech from the teacher’s perspective.
  6. Sentence types and discourse functions.
  7. The structure of the English sentence.
  8. The compound sentence and coordination.
  9. The complex sentence and subordinate clauses in English.
  10. Modality in English.
  11. Cohesion. Substitution and ellipsis.
  12. Word order in English. Fronting.
  13. Postponement of clause elements.
  14. Clefts and existential structures.
  15. Meaning of words: conceptual and associative meanings.
  16. Word-formation processes in English.
  17. Sense relations.
  18. The origins of the English vocabulary. Polysemy and homonymy.
  19. Spoken and written language. Language of conversation.
  20. The style of official documents. Writing formal letters. Legal English.
  21. The language of the media. Characteristic features of news reports.
  22. Characteristic features of the English scientific prose style.