final examination topics: teacher’s degree

1. Learning and teaching

• Learner types, learning styles
• Teacher roles and responsibilities
• The teacher as a facilitator, etc.
• The native and non-native teacher

2. The Communicative Approach

• Principles, methods, techniques
• Communicative activities
• Integrating skills

3. Classroom management

• Classroom interactions
• Giving instructions, discipline problems
• Seating arrangement
• Group dynamics

4. Current issues in language teaching

• Competence development
• The intercultural dimension of language teaching
• Collaborative, cooperative learning, project work
• ICT in language teaching and learning

5. Teaching listening skills

• Listening sub-skills
• Staging a listening activity
• Authentic texts

6. Teaching reading skills

• Authentic reading texts
• Reading sub-skills
• Staging a reading task

7. Teaching speaking skills

• Communicative vs. non-communicative tasks
• Developing fluency vs. accuracy
• Teaching pronunciation

8. Teaching writing skills

• Word, sentence and paragraph level writing
• Process vs. product writing

9. Teaching structures and functions

• Techniques of presentation
• Techniques of practice and integration

10. Evaluation and assessment

• Giving feedback
• Error correction
• Language testing
• Alternative (formative, continuous) assessment

11. Teaching vocabulary and related skills

• Techniques of presentation
• Recycling, testing, etc.

12. Teaching young learners

• Special features
• Examples of teaching skills

13. Course and lesson planning

• Planning lessons
• Curriculum and syllabus
• NAT, érettségi requirements
• Evaluating coursebooks and other EFL materials