Kód IS: 

AAA300105 (jednooborí)

AAA400105 (dvouobor)

AAA500105 (navazující)

OBJECTIVES
There are more than 2 million people in the Czech Republic learning English in this school year (statistics of the Ministry of Education). There are thousands of English textbooks (is there an ideal one?); you will see, consider and discuss the pros and cons of the main titles available nowadays not only in this country. There are hundreds of teaching techniques (some of them are really efficient, motivating and trustworthy but some may even be harmful. There are dozens of methods. Some of them offer an easy, short and effortless way in this valley of tears to the promised land of fluency and spontaneous communication.
Countless advertisements for numerous language schools attract potential students through all sorts of "pedagogical allurements" - e.g. made-to-measure courses, individusl approach, latest and up-to-date technologies and methods; an American language school in Prague invites its students to "learn English once and for ever" via native speakers etc.etc. -which may lead us - non-nativespeakers and teachers to be confused . The question is: Is there, in this Babel of views and approaches, a place/chance for me?

In our seminar we will try to find a positive and encouraging answer through both theoretical and practical teaching (e.g. learning that our knowledge of the mother tongue of our pupils is our great advantage). In these three TEFL courses you will learn the basic principles of successful English teaching and other work in this field including evaluating textbooks,
reviewing, counselling etc.

SUBJECTS
1. Foundations of ELT/TEFL/TESOL/ applied linguistics.
2. Functional-communicative conception of TEFL.
3. Teaching practice plus observation.

Literatura
Mothejzíková, J.: Methodology for TEFL Teachers, SPN, Praha1988
Methodology for TEFL Teachers II, Karolinum, Praha 2002
Choděra, Ries, Zajícová, Mothejzíková, Hanzlíková: Výuka cizích jazyků na prahu nového
Století

for bibliography, see <http://uaa.ff.cuni.cz/doc/DAJbibliography.doc>.