General Education and Language Teaching Methodology: The Gdańsk School of ELT

ISBN-13: 9783631649190 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 172 str.

Karolina Janczukowicz; Mikolaj Rychlo

Opis

This book presents a selection of papers on teaching English as a foreign language and the role of language education in human development. As thinking skills rely on language, language education should exceed utilitarian and everyday communicative needs and should be the basis for developing other school subjects. The book provides practical suggestions for language teaching, for the development of logical thinking and the understanding of the linguistic relationship between the first and the second languages in a historical perspective.

Spis treści

Contents: Ryszard Wenzel: A direction of general education - Marta Smalara-Lewandowska: Two languages in one mind: Towards a definition of the conscious bilingual - Mikolaj Rychlo: The philological element in the education of a language teacher: Understanding the similarity between English and Polish - Karolina Janczukowicz: Aim-centered methodology - Olga Aleksandrowska: On the motivation of adult learners in English language education - Michal Daszkiewicz: Expressing knowledge as a personal educational event - Ryszard Wenzel: Language education and teaching by the learner's text creation - Olga Aleksandrowska: Texts of culture in English language education - Michal Daszkiewicz: Testing as a source of personal educational experience.

O autorze

Karolina Janczukowicz is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Gdansk, Poland. Her academic interests include psycholinguistics and teaching pronunciation to secondary school students.
Mikolaj Rychlo is Assistant Professor of English and Linguistics at the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Gdansk, Poland. His current research interests include historical linguistics, etymology, Polish-English cognates and philosophy of language education.