[5032020] English Didactics I (5 ECTS)

This course is taught by:

Maria Helena Dias Loureiro
mhelenaloureiro@clix.pt
Office hours: , Office 626 (6th Floor)

Language of instruction

Portuguese

Bibliography

Bibliografia
I PARTE
Introdução: Educação, linguagem, pedagogia. Que escolas, que professoras/es? Para quê estudar línguas estrangeiras?
Edwin Morgan, ‘School’s Out’/1977/(poema).
Leo Rosten, ‘The Rather Difficult Case of Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N’ & Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N, the Comparative and the Superlative’ [1937], in The Education of Hyman Kaplan, San Diego: Harvest Books, s.d., pp. 3-18.
Eric Hawkins, Modern Languages in the Curriculum, London: C.U.P., 1981, chapter 2 ‘Why a foreign language for all?’, pp. 27-60.
Michael Byram, Cultural Studies in Foreign Language Education, Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, Ltd., 1989, chapter 1 ‘Foreign Language Teaching and Education’, pp. 8-24 & chapter 5 ‘Analysing, Describing and Understanding a Foreign Culture’, pp. 80-101.
Martin Kayman, "‘We can do this the easy way or the hard way’: Teaching English as a Foreign Culture" in Meta Grosman (ed.), Approaches to Teaching in an Intercultural Context, Ljubjana: Faculty of Arts, 1997, pp.9-22.

2. Que inglês e porquê? Quem ‘fala’ inglês? Quem mais faz o quê com o inglês? Quem ensina inglês e a quem? Que inglês aprender, para que fins?
R. Quirk e H. G. Widdowson (eds.), English in the World, London: C.U.P., 1985, ‘Theme I: The English Language in a Global Context’, pp. 1-10.
English for ages 5 to 16: Proposals of the Secretary of State for Education and Science and the Secretary of State for Wales, D.E.S., June 1989, 4 ‘Teaching Standard English’ (10 pp.)
Peter Trudgill, ‘Standard English: What It Isn't’, The European English Messenger, VII/1, 1998, pp. 34-39.
Alastair Pennycook, The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language, London: Longman, 1994, 1. ‘The world in English’, pp. 1-37 & 9. ‘Towards a critical pedagogy for teaching English as a worldly language’, pp. 295-327.
Robert McCrum, William Cram & Robert MacNeil, The Story of English, London: Faber & Faber, 1989.
Também recomendamos a leitura dos restantes capítulos da supramencionada obra de Pennycook.

3. A política da linguagem na escola: normalização e socialização, ideias de competência. Qual o papel da linguagem, e em especial da linguagem das/os alunas/os, na escola? O papel da linguagem na educação e os seus modelos. Língua materna, línguas estrangeiras. Políticas de ensino/aprendizagem do Inglês L.E.
William Labov, ‘The Logic of Non-Standard English’ (1969), in Lucy Burke et al. (eds.), The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader, London: Routledge, 2000, pp. 456-466.
David Dabydeen, ‘On Not Being Milton: Nigger Talk in England Today’, in Lucy Burke et al. (eds.), The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader, London: Routledge, 2000, pp. 302-309.
M. Rosen, ‘Don’t pull up your trouser legs before you see the sea: young people, culture and school’, in M. Meek & J. Miller (eds.), Changing English: Essays for Harold Rosen , London: Heinemann, 1985, pp. 237-252.
van Ek, ‘The Threshold Level’, in C. J. Brumfit & Keith Johnson (eds.) The Communicative Approach to Language Teaching, London: O.U.P., 1979 , pp. 103-116.
James Britton, ‘Writing to Learn and Learning to Write’ [1972], in Gordon Pradl (ed.), Prospect and Retrospect, London: Heinemann, 1982, pp. 94-111, 201-215.
Celia Burgess-Macey, ‘Tackling Racism and Sexism in the Primary Classroom’ in Dawn Gill, Barbara Mayor & Maude Blair (eds.), Racism and Education, Structures and Strategies, London: Sage, 1992, pp. 269-283.
Deborah Cameron, Verbal Hygiene, London: Routledge, 1995.
David Crystal, Language Play, London: Penguin, 1998.
Rob Pope, The English Studies Book, London: Routledge, 1998.

II PARTE
A questão da cultura. Podemos ensinar língua sem ensinar cultura? Que cultura nos oferece o International English? Que imagens culturais nos oferecem os manuais de Inglês adoptados nas escolas públicas portuguesas? Que cultura vamos ensinar? Vários pontos de partida...
Catherine Wallace, ‘Critical Literacy Awareness in the E.F.L. Classroom’ in Norman Fairclough (ed.), Critical Language Awareness, London: Longman, 1992, pp. 59-92.
Colectânea de textos retirados de manuais de Inglês adoptados nas escolas públicas portuguesas.

Length

1 semester (1st)

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