Review
Created by Martin Boško
The history of FL education, policies and multilingualism in the Czech Republic
Past, present and future of education
Big names of education, important figures
Departments and centers
Current research in teaching and education
Challenges: COVID, immigrants
Curriculum and Language Policy
Language in the global context
English as a Lingua Franca
Linguistic research
Corpora: Corpus analysis, creation
Language learners and teachers
Learners
- Learning/acquisition
- Affective domain: Motivation, fears, Anxiety
- Specific groups of learners: SENDs, different L1, Multilinguals, Pre-primary and Senior education
- Inner world: Learner autonomy, self-assessment, self-efficacy
Teacher
- Teacher education and training
- Research about teachers
- Needs, beliefs, opinions, self-assessment, self-efficacy
Classroom communication: Classroom communication, mediation
To disolve into other groups
- Teachnology - mostly into Teaching - materials, methods, language teaching…
- Speaking/communication - probably further divide into teaching speaking and communication → communication in classroom
- Listening/music - further divide into listening and music → materials
- Dictionaries - further divide - dictionary use in classroom (teaching) and dictionary creation (language in education)
- Code-switching probably disolve into Language teaching / Vocab teaching
Language Didactics
Teaching skills - reading, writing, listening, speaking, Translation as a fifth skill?
Teaching language systems: Vocabulary, Grammar, (Pronnunciation)
Teaching methods/approaches: CLIL, CALL, Flipped classroom, online, blended… Errors and attitude towards them
Competences: ICC, Communicative, pragmatic,sociolinguistic…
Specifics of teaching non-English L2s/L3s
- "Mainstream": German, Russian, Spanish, French
- "Fringe": Polish, Japanese, Bulgarian…
Teaching tools: Materials, Textbooks, Dictionaries, Assessment, grading, testing
Professional teaching: Teaching language for specific puproses, teaching linguistics
