Course Plan


Chapter 1: Language Teaching Context
An overall idea of the whole context of foreign language teaching bearing in mind the specific setting of the Colombian educational system.

Chapter 1: Factors which influence language teaching. Education policy. Foreign language policy. Curriculum. Evaluation.
 

Chapter 2: Language Teaching Methodology
The relevant disciplines which underlie foreign language teaching and the way they affect this field. Characteristics of language teaching methodologies and the way they are influenced by their theoretical implications.

Chapter 2: Language teaching. Disciplines contributing to language teaching.

Methodology and its related elements. The concept of method.
 

Chapter 3: Psycholinguistics and Foreign Language Teaching
Common theories that have greatly influenced foreign language teaching in the last decades and their contribution to the progressive development of foreign language teaching.

Chapter 3: Behaviourism. Mentalism. Some considerations.
 

Chapter 4: Language Teaching Methods
Presentation and discussion of methods and approaches which have affected language teaching practices, their strengths and weaknesses.

Chapter 4: The Direct Method. The Reading Method. The Audiolingual Method. The Communicative Approach. The Total Physical Response.
 
 

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