Foreign Language Acquisition and Learning

Phase 1 Recognition Activity

The course learning purpose:

Establish spaces for the appropriation of the foreign language teaching process in participant observation practice in different learning environments, through practical activities carried out for the students.

Learning outcomes:

Learning Outcome 1: Review the characteristics of the course and the particularities of the pedagogical and educational practice process.

Learning Outcome 2: Examine the factors that influence the process of foreign language acquisition and learning methodically and in detail within the pedagogical practice scenarios.

Learning Outcome 3: Compare the main theories on foreign language acquisition within the context of the pedagogical practice scenario.

Learning Outcome 4: Evaluate teaching strategies used within the classroom based on the student's learning characteristics.

Learning Outcome 5: Set up a proposal related to the new assessment approaches in the classroom environment.

Learning Strategy for the course:

Phase 1: Recognition Activity

Phase 2: Participant - Observation Practice

Phase 3: Participant - Observation Practice

Phase 4: Participant - Observation Practice

Phase 5: Final Activity

Course Contents and Bibliographic References

Unit 1: Foreign Language Acquisition, from the theory to the practice.

Unit 2: Learning trends in Foreign Language

Organization of Weekly Academic Activities and Course Evaluation Plan:

Initial moment: Phase 1, Record a video where you make a brief introduction of the course, and you give the main information about the pedagogical practice and the forms you must use for the pedagogical practice.

Intermediate momento:

Phase 2, Make a significant analysis of the factors involved in the acquisition and learning process of a foreign language learner.

Phase 3, Make a significant analysis of the factors involved in the acquisition and learning process of a foreign language learner.

Phase 4, Demonstrate the capability to identify the correct learning style in a class based on the students’ needs.

Final moment:

Phase 5 Final Activity, Set up a proposal related to the new assessment approaches in the classroom environment.

Teachers´s support:

This course students must develop 32 hours IN SITU in an educational institution. Compliance with the Participant -Observation practice hours are distributed as follows