Didactics

Teaching Unit: Fundamental

Level: L3

Coefficient: 3 Credit: 6

Weekly time: 1h30 for the course

Method of instruction: Lecture –printed courses

Means Assessment and Evaluation: multiple choice, short answer, or essay exams

Aims and Objectives:

  1. To introduce the notion of “Didactics” to learners, and to tell them its domain and role in Language teaching and learning.
  2. To cope with the historical teaching methods, their tenets, and how to be an Eclectic teacher.
  3. To determine the notions’ concepts as Communication Interaction, Communicative Competence, and communication strategies.
  4. To give the opportunity to EFL learners to tackle lessons, to plan skills and sub-skills and how to teach them from observable perspectives.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. 1Introducing the field “Didactics”, its meaning, and its area of study.
  2. Dealing with the different Teaching Methods in EFL Classrooms.
  3. Defining the concepts “Communication- Communicative Competence- Interaction”.
  4. Familiarizing the learners with the different EFL teachers’ roles and how to assess the enrolled learners.
  5. Coping with learning theories and contributions to facilitate learning.
  6. Socializing the EFL learners with both processes of “Teaching/Learning” and showing them with practical, observable situations how to manage classrooms

Semester one

  • • Unit one: focus on the teacher
  • • Unit two: focus on the learner
  • • Unit three: approach and methods in language teaching
  • • Unit Four: Lesson planning and classroom management 

Semester Two

  • • Unit five: Teaching/ learning the receptive skills (Listening and Reading)
  • • Unit Six: Teaching/ learning the receptive skills (Speaking and Writing)
  • • Unit seven: Teaching grammar and vocabulary
  • • Unit Eight: assessment and evaluation