Syllabus for Master Students “Methods of Teaching a Foreign Language” within “Methodology of Teaching a Foreign Language and Foreign Literature in Higher School”

Abstract

Methods of teaching foreign languages in higher education is a basic discipline that is an integral part of the training of specialists at the educational qualification level “Master”, field of knowledge 035.04 Philology (Germanic languages and literatures (translation inclusive) for future professional activity. Work program for the discipline “Methods of teaching a foreign language // Methods of teaching a Foreign Language” within the course on “Methods of teaching a foreign language and foreign literature in higher education // Methodology of Teaching a Foreign Language and Foreign Literature in Higher School” was created for masters of the first year of study in the educational and scientific program “Modern English-language communication and translation and two Western European languages”. The purpose of the discipline is the formation ofmethodological competence with an emphasis on the balance of communicative and educational, educational, developmental, general educational, gnostic, organizational, constructive-planning and evaluative functions of the future teacher of a higher educational institution, which involves a reflexive understanding of their own experience of learning languages and the experience of their teaching, comprehensive orientation in modern theories of language learning and educational regulatory documents, critical analysis and evaluation of educational materials, holistic and fragmentary planning of a practical lesson in English, conducting a practical lesson, as well as creating English-language and Ukrainian-language texts of a scientific and educational nature, including scientific articles and annotations to them and writing work programs for disciplines. The program also focuses on academic integrity and means of preventing plagiarism.