Methods and Applications: Language learning and teaching

Winter term 2021/2022
Wednesday, 13:15-14:45
Room C1 in Collegium Novum
30 contact hours (1 class a week)
ECTS credits: 6
Lecturers: Nicole Nau and Natika Puthran
Teams code = iud5leb

Course descripton

In this class we will discuss current trends in learning and teaching foreign languages, and learn about research methods in this field. The class is structured into an introductory part (reviewing and expanding basic concepts and questions) and four thematic blocks: 1. The use of digital technology in language learning within and beyond the classroom; 2. Corpora in learning, teaching, and research; 3. Content and language integrated learning; 4. Translanguaging, or how to effectively use all one’s linguistic ressources in learning languages.

Teaching methods: Lecture, class discussions, exercises, assigned reading, short presentations by students

Requirements for course credits:

  • Active participation in class and preparation of homework
  • One final written test, covering the content of the class (for “zaliczenie”)
  • One individual project about one of the topics of the class (for “egzamin”)

Selected literature on research methods (more specific literature will be introduced during the class)

Behrens, Heike. 2008. Corpora in Language Acquisition Research: History, Methods, Perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co.

Blom, Elma, and Sharon Unsworth. 2010. Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co.

Brown, James Dean, and Christine A. Coombe. 2015. The Cambridge Guide to Research in Language Teaching and Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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

Gass, Susan M., and Alison Mackey. 2012. Research Methods in Second Language Acquisition: A Practical Guide. Malden, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Hinkel, Eli. 2005. Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning. Mahwah, N.J.: Routledge.

Lust, Barbara, and Maria Blume. 2017. Research Methods in Language Acquisition: Principles, Procedures, and Practices. Washington, DC: De Gruyter Mouton.

Ortega, Lourdes, and John Michael Norris. 2006. Synthesizing Research on Language Learning and Teaching. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co.

Pawlak, Mirosław. 2011. Extending the Boundaries of Research on Second Language Learning and Teaching. Berlin: Springer.

Reinhardt, Jonathon. 2019. Gameful Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: Theory, Research, and Practice. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.