Course info

The laboratory offers a space where teacher-trainees can operationalise the knowledge and competences gained through lectures in a hands-on fashion in order to practise instructed language learning in English as a foreign language (EFL) with learners at lower and upper secondary level. The lab. adopts a project-based approach in which participants work on concrete tasks in order to plan and create a teaching unit (TU) suitable for lower and upper secondary schools, applying strategies of macroplanning and microplanning. The TU aims at helping learners develop their knowledge of English lexis and grammar structures and their use of English for communication through the functional skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Furthermore, learners should become aware of how they can activate their previous language learning knowledge and experience, their cross-linguistic awareness and thus draw on their entire language repertoire.

(For further details, see online syllabus; see OLE)