6743 - Teaching English as a Foreign Language IV - Skills, Grammar-based and through Literature
Course information
Title
Teaching English as a Foreign Language IV - Skills, Grammar-based and through Literature
Course number
6743.22
Academic year
2024-2025
ECTS
10.00
Level
Bachelor
Faculties
Education
Educations
BEd in Primary and Lower Secondary Education
Prerequisites
A student of teacher education in the Faculty of Education, the University of the Faroe Islands
Language of instruction
Faroese and english
Registration
Students on the second, third and fourth academic year of Bachelor of Education in Primary and Lower Secondary Education apply for specialised subjects via Moodle. Applicants for an individual course may apply via the The Student Affairs Centre: umsokn@setur.fo
Beginning date
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
End date
Friday, May 2, 2025
Academic content
Purpose
To enable students to design teaching approaches, activity design for the language skills and teaching grammar in context. To give an overview of and apply the major approaches of literary criticism in literary analysis
Learning outcomes
On completion of the course, learners should be able to: • design language activities to teach the four skills & grammar in context. • design skill-based activities based on literary texts and literary criticism.
Content
Teaching /Assessment of the four skills & grammar in the teaching of English as a foreign language. • Listening • Speaking • Reading • Writing and grammar in language learning. Literary criticism and literary analysis. • Approaches to literary criticism. • Tools of literary analysis.
Learning and teaching approaches
Blended learning  Lectures by course leader.  Individual/pair/group work  Individual/pair projects.
Assessment
Assessment method
An individual oral presentation of a classroom activity based on a literary text using teaching approaches to two language skills.
Examination (internal/external)
External
Grading scale
7-scale
Exam date/dates
The oral exam is set for Week 18 in 2025
Deadline for withdrawal from exam
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Academic responsibility and teachers
Academic responsibility
Kalpana Vijayavarathan-R
Teachers
Hanna Højbjerg Poulsen
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