UNIT 1: Motivation:

-Definition of: motivation

-Definition of: motivational strategies.

-Self-actualising tendency (Maslow)

- Basic motivational conditions or pre-conditions:

-Appropriate teacher behaviour.

-Supportive atmosphere in the classroom.

-Cohesive group/appropriate group norms

-Strategies we can use to reinforce these pre-conditions.

-Generating initial motivation:

-Intrinsic values.

-Integrative values.

-Instrumental values.

-Strategies we can use to generate initial motivation and reinforce intrinsic, integrative
and instrumental values.

-Maintaining and protecting motivation (strategies we can use to maintain and protect
motivation)

UNIT 2: Interaction:

-Examples of activities to promote interaction.

-Factors teachers should bear in mind in order to design interactive activities (10)

-Qualities of interactive oral grammar exercises (5)

-Examples of interactive oral grammar exercises.

-Advantages of Computer-assisted language learning (CALL)

-Expected outcomes when using drama in the English classroom.

UNIT 3: Oral skills: listening and speaking

-Differences between listening and reading (CA is influenced by reading)

-Current format for listening lessons:

-Pre-listening: Establish context/Create motivation for listening/Pre-teach only

critical vocabulary.

-Extensive listening: General questions on context and attitude of speakers.

 -Intensive listening: Pre-set questions/Intensive reading/Checking answers to
questions.
-Post-listening: Functional language in listening passage/Learners infer the
meaning of unknown words from the sentences in which they appear/.Final play;
learners look at transcript.
-Examples of interactive listening exercises.

-The Interactive Compensatory Hypothesis

UNIT 4: Writing skills: Reading and writing

Reading skills:

-Skimming.

-Scanning.

-Extensive reading.

-Intensive reading.

-Predictive reading.

-Critical reading.

-Ways of using texts in the EFL classroom: TALO;TAVI; TASP.

-Advantages and disadvantages of using authentic materials in the EFL classroom.
-Textual intervention.

UNIT 5: The cultural component in EFL:

-Different concepts of culture.

-The concepts of multicultural, pluricultural, sociocultural and intercultural.

-Stereotypes and prejudices.

-DMIS: ethnocentric and ethno relative stages.

UNIT 6: Assessing language learning:

-Qualities of a good test.

-techniques to make writing assessing a fair and positive practice

-Listening comprehension tests and hearing tests

-Qualitative aspects that should be born in mind when assessing oral production:
Range, accuracy, fluency interaction, coherence.