Teaching Materials: Evaluation, Assessment, Creation, Design & Application - EDU00029M
- Department: Education
- Credit value: 20 credits
- Credit level: M
- Academic year of delivery: 2022-23
Module will run
NoneModule aims
To introduce students to the foundations underpinning the design, creation and troubleshooting of TEYL teaching materials (commercial and non-commercial)
Module learning outcomes
Subject content
- the principles underpinning materials design
- the principles underpinning materials design for young learners
- the practice of materials design and creation appropriate criteria for evaluating materials for young learners
- procedures and instruments for evaluating young learner materials
- the relationship between theory and practice
- their own learning process during the study of the module
Academic and graduate skills
- critical thinking and reflection
- critical reading
- independent thinking
- academic writing
- critically analysing and evaluating evidence
- reflection on their learning
- managing learning
Indicative assessment
Task | % of module mark |
---|---|
Essay/coursework | 100.0 |
Special assessment rules
None
Indicative reassessment
Task | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework | 100.0 |
Module feedback
Formal written feedback on each of the assignment criteria from two markers following anonymous marking, plus informal (formative) written feedback from the students supervisor to aid student progression in subsequent modules
Indicative reading
Brewster, J., Ellis, G. and Girard, D. (2002). The Primary English
Teachers Guide (New Edition). Harlow: Pearson Education Limited.
Cameron, L. (2001). Teaching Languages to Young Learners. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Ellis, R. (1985). Understanding
Second Language Acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lightbown, P. and Spada, N. (2013). How Languages are Learned. (4th
ed). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Richards, J. C. and
Rodgers, T. (2014). Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching, (3rd
ed). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Stern, H. H. (1983).
Fundamental Concepts of Language Teaching. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Wells, G. (2009). The Meaning Makers: Learning to Talk and
Talking to Learn (2nd Edition). London: Multilingual Matters.
Williams, M. and Burden, R.L. (1997). Psychology for Language
Teachers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.