The study gives 60 EC TS points and can be part of a bachelor. It can also be part of a 4-year teacher training programme
-Knowledge about the language and how it is used
-Give the students good language proficiency
-give insight into cultural, social, historic and political conditions in English speaking countries
-give didactical knowledge about teaching English to pupils
-Use ICT in language teaching and to use Internet as a source for collecting information
You need general study competence/ competence from work experience
The study is built up after topics and the ECTS points system
It is furthermore divided according to 4 topics with the ECTS points
The teaching is organized in the form of lectures and group work. The language of communication is English and learning to communicate in English is one of the main aims of the study. Extensive reading of the books on the curriculum will be required. Internet will be used to gather information and Classfronter will is used for giving information. There will be tutorials in the form of conversations between a teacher and a student about topics like motivation, progression, ways of working, and comments on written work. At the beginning of the autumn term there will be a compulsory writing course.
A compulsory study excursion will be organized to the Norwegian Study Centre in York in weeks 47 and 48. The main aim of the excursion is to practise English, but there will be lectures and seminars on topics about civilisation and literature and language by the teachers at the Centre. A school visit will be arranged for the teachers’ students and others who are specially interested. The Department of Economy and languages at HSF gives a grant and the state loan bank gives extra loan.
Compulsory working portfolio and evaluation portfolio
Experience has shown that participation in the teaching and being in a process are the keystones for success. Portfolio evaluation means that students must be in a process during the whole year by handing in a given number of texts. Each topic has different compulsory work requirements which you will find under each topic. The last deadline for approval of the work requirement by the subject teacher is three weeks before the exam.