About the course

Face-to- face meeting #1

• 2 days, Friday and Saturday

Online

• Unit 1 Working with tasks
• Unit 2 Understanding how children learn languages
• Unit 3 Working with words, grammar and sounds
• Unit 4 Integrating the skills

Face-to- face meeting #2

• 2 days, Friday and Saturday

Online

• Unit 5 Working with stories and short literary texts
• Unit 6 Evaluating teaching resources
• Unit 7 Integrating subject matter
• Unit 8 Managing the language classroom

Face-to- face meeting #3

• 2 days, Friday and Saturday

Online

• Unit 9 Promoting cultural learning
• Unit 10 Supporting individual learners
• Unit 11 Using media
• Unit 12 Acknowledging and assessing achievement

Face-to- face meeting #4

• 2 days, Friday and Saturday

Online

• Writing your Master’s Thesis

Face-to- face meeting #5

• 2 days, Friday and Saturday
• Final exam

Bland, J. (Ed.) (2015). Teaching English to Young Learners Critical Issues in Language Teaching with 3-12 Year Olds. London: Bloomsbury

Cameron, L. (2001). Teaching Languages to Young Learners. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Garton, S., & Copland, F. (Eds.). (2018). The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English to Young Learners (1st ed.). London: Routledge.

Kolb, A. / Schocker, M. (2021). Teaching English in the Primary School. A task-based introduction for pre- and in-service teachers. Seelze: Klett / Kallmeyer.

Mourao, S. / Lourenco, Mónica (2015). Early Years Second Language Education. International Perspectives on Theory and Practice. London: Routledge.

Mourao, S. / Ellis, G. (2020). Teaching english to pre-primary children. Stuttgart: Klett.

Murphy, V. (2014). Second Language Learning in the Early School Years: Trends and Contexts. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Pinter, A. (2011). Children Learning Second Languages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Pinter, A. (2017). Teaching Young Language Learners (2nd ed.) Oxford: Oxford University Press.

E-LINGO subscribes to an action research approach to professional development. You may find the following publications helpful:

Burns, Anne (2010). Doing Action Research in English Language Teaching. A Guide for Practitioners. New York: Routledge.

Chevalier, Jacques .M. and Buckles, Daniel J. (2013). Participatory Action Research: Theory and Methods for Engaged Inquiry. London: Routledge.

Dörnyei, Zoltán (2007). Research Methods in Applied Linguistics: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methodologies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Heigham, Juanita  and Croker, Robert A. (eds.) (2009).  Qualitative Research in Applied Linguistics. A Practical Introduction. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

For students who read German:

Caspari, Daniela; Klipperl, Friederike; Legutke, Michael K.; Schramm, Karen (Hg.) (2022). Forschungsmethoden in der Fremdsprachendidaktik: Ein Handbuch. Tübingen: Narr.