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Course in Analysis and Production of Teaching Materials
Didactic materials are constructed from tools or environments that technology makes available to the teacher in order to favor the processes of understanding in their classes. Without forgetting about the chalk and blackboard, today we carry out simulations in virtual environments thanks to new technologies, promoting good teaching practices.
The uses we make of them, the hypotheses that justify their inclusion and the processes of evaluation and reflection on the given uses are key dimensions to understand the educational value of technology in the classroom.
The course includes content, tutoring, facilitation, individual and group activities, forums and debates.
Objectives
The main objectives of the course are that students:
- Acquire and incorporate new knowledge, and apply it in a specific area.
- Apply the concepts, principles, theories and methodology to new or little-known environments, and operate with the models.
- Make judgments based on criteria, external standards or personal reflections.
- Develop self-directed and autonomous training and research, together with a positive attitude towards fundamental rights, specifying these principles in cooperative learning and respect for scientific and research ethics.
- Critically analyze your experience as language learners and/or teachers, according to the new learning models.
- Innovate in the design of instruments and resources for evaluating the different individual and contextual variables that affect the process of acquiring communicative linguistic competence.
- Manage multilingual learning environments with special attention to the current intercultural situation (migration, relations between countries, etc.) that generates constant situations of multilingual and multicultural communication.
General competences
- Autonomously consult the specific sources of information and documentation in the area of knowledge of Applied Linguistics to language teaching, select and organize them, in order to incorporate new knowledge.
- Apply to new or little-known environments, within broader or multidisciplinary contexts, those concepts, principles, theories, models and methodology related to the different fields of Applied Linguistics to the teaching of foreign languages, relevant to the field of the Spanish language.
- Issue judgments based on criteria, external norms or personal reflections, although such judgments may rely on incomplete or limited information. These judgments will include reflections on social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments.
- Show a positive attitude towards the fundamental rights of people and democratic values, in cooperative learning and in respect for research and scientific ethics.
- Develop learning skills that allow self-directed or autonomous training and research.
- Enrich and apply their knowledge in the specific area of Applied Linguistics to the teaching of Spanish to non-natives.
- Critically analyze their experience in the classroom, according to the new learning models.
- Apply the knowledge acquired to the academic activity in the field of Spanish as a foreign language.
- Innovate in the design of instruments and resources for evaluating the different individual and contextual variables that affect the process of acquiring communicative linguistic competence.
- Manage multilingual learning environments with special attention to the current intercultural situation (migration, relations between countries, etc.) that generates constant situations of multilingual and multicultural communication.
Course program
Unit 1.
The teacher and the materials
Unit 2.
Teaching materials and the methodological approach
Unit 3.
Assignments
The teacher and the materials
- Preliminary issues and basic concepts
- Teaching materials and teaching competence: what should I know how to do?
- The teacher and the materials in the European context: guidelines of the fundamental reference documents
- Fundamentals of the selection of teaching materials in the classroom
- Teaching material analysis models: a look at history
Teaching materials and the methodological approach
- Teaching materials and methodological approach
- Methodological criteria for the selection of teaching materials
- Methodological requirements for the selection of teaching materials
Assignments
- Assignments and its role in learning and teaching
- Keys for adapting and designing assignments
Unit 4.
Basic resources
Unit 5.
The integration of formal content
Unit 6.
The communicative activities of language
Basic resources
- Introduction
- Texts
- Images
- Multimedia resources
The integration of formal content
- The integration of formal content
- Materials for learning and teaching vocabulary
- Grammar in the action-oriented approach
- The approach to pronunciation in assignments
The communicative activities of language
- The development of the communicative activities of language: fundamentals and criteria
- The communicative activities of language oriented towards understanding
- Expression and interaction activities