Part 1. Introduction to the Specialty

Course: “Foreign Literature and the English Language: Theory and Methodology of Teaching”

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
Part 1. Introduction to the Specialty
Code
OK 02.01.
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
1 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
2
Learning outcomes
PLO 7, PLO 17, PLO 22. The full list of Programme learning outcomes is given in the section "Programme Profile".
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. Empirical knowledge of school subjects "Foreign Literature" and "English". 2. General idea of how educational and cognitive activities of students are organized in secondary school.
Course content
This course is a propaedeutic one that introduces students to the main areas of their specialty. The course provides students with possibility to obtain theoretical and practical knowledge and to learn about the functioning of the higher education system in terms of humanization of the educational process. They learn about the history of founding and teaching of the subjects "Foreign literature" and "English" in the system of school education in Urkaine, international and Ukrainian experience in structuring relevant courses. The students also get acquainted with the system of theoretical and practical disciplines that provide mastery of professional knowledge in their specialty.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Hannan, Andrew. Changing Higher Education: teaching, learning and institutional cultures / A paper prepared for the Annual Conference of the British Educational Research Association, University of Leeds, 13 September 2001. 2. Townsend Sue (1982). The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Forms of study consist of lectures, seminars and students’ self-study. Forms of tuition include answers at the seminars, group project, independent work (acquaintance with documents and terminology; summarizing articles; development of tasks), comparison of curricula, analysis of textbooks and final test paper.
Assessment methods and criteria
Final score for the course constitutes a total of points for all forms of control and does not need any additional forms of evaluation. Forms of the current control include the sum of marks for answers at the seminars (min 15 / max 25 points), for creating and presenting of group project (min 6 / max 10 points), for independent work (acquaintance with documents and terminology; summarizing articles; development of tasks) (min 9 / max 15 points), for comparison of curricula (min 6 / max 10 points), for analysis of textbooks (min 6 / max 10 балів), and for final test paper consisting of three open questions (min 18 / max 30 балів). Students who did not manage to score 60 points during the term have to work for the classes and topics they missed by writing independent individual works. Final point correlation scale According to 100-point scale Mark according to national scale 60–100 Passed 0–59 Fail
Language of instruction
Ukrainian 

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Nataliia Oleksiivna Liubarets
Department of Foreign Literature
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of Foreign Literature
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology