English for upper primary school teachers

The course is designed to connect the students' own learning to their future teaching in upper primary school in each course component. The course comprises the following components: Module 1 Culture, Media, and Society, 7.5 ECTS cr - Different types of texts, e.g. children's literature and the media, suitable for stimulating young learners' language development - Glimpses of cultural, media-related, and societal phenomena in English-speaking regions - Application of knowledge of cultural phenomena in English-speaking regions in the planning of teaching situations, partly involving ICT - Oral and written communicative skills training Module 2 Pronunciation and Oral Proficiency, 7.5 ECTS cr - Survey of English phonology with exercises in pronunciation and phonetic transcription - Survey of pronunciation variants in English - Common pronunciation problems and ways of overcoming them - Oral communication skills training Module 3 Grammar and Written Proficiency, 7.5 ECTS cr - Basic grammatical concepts and the main features of English syntax in theory and practice - Writing skills in theory and practice - Grammar exercises - Ways of integrating grammar in teaching adapted to learner levels Module 4 Language Acquisition in Theory and Practice, 7.5 ECTS cr - The main features of some seminal language acquisition theories and approaches to language and their relation to school objectives and the teaching of English - Methods for transforming knowledge into varied and stimulating teaching based on different aesthetic and playful learning strategies - Methods for testing and assessing learners' linguistic competence and for planning their continued development - Literature preferences and forms of study, for instance in relation to gender