Academic major 4

studia drugiego stopnia

English Philology - Teacher Training Programme

semestr 4

studia niestacjonarne

profil akademicki

obowiązkowe

Mieszany: realizowany zdalnie i w sali

Academic major 1

Academic major 2

Academic major 3

ECTS points in relation to student’s duties

total number of ECTS: 3

1 ECTS = 30 hrs in class (50% university site/50% online)

2 ECTS = 60 hrs preparation to class with direct participation of the teacher

Course description

The course Academic Major 4 is a continuation of Academic Major 3. The students continue to deepen their knowledge regarding selected trends and achievements within the studied discipline. The students follow their research topics and research projects under the supervision of the academic responsible for their MA thesis development.

Course objectives:

The main aim of the Academic major is to explore academic issues that are a basis for the students' own research in the second language acquisition context .

In the Academic major 4 course the students work on

- discussing parts of the thesis (chapters, parts of chapters)

- discussing the interpretative potential of the thesis

- discussing various contexts connected with the topic of the thesis

- discussing the significance of the critical/interpretative efforts

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Course content:

depends on individual needs of the students and is decided upon by the teacher.

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Methods of instruction/ forms of classroom activity

supervising, mentoring, discussion, reading, text analysis, writing, revising, ICT tools/MSTeams

Reading list is individual and depends on a topic of a dissertation.

Learning outcomes acc to PQF 2019

Knowledge

Students know and understand

1. the position and role of philological sciences and their place among the humanities as well as the analytical and methodological tools used in them; especially the role of second language acquisition in linguistics (k_W01/P7S_WG)

2. in-depth specialist terminology and theories of second language aquisition studies (k_W02/P7S_WG)

3. a wide range of analytical and interpretative methods relating to various cultural products analyzed within linguistics, including theories and research schools in the field of language acquisition (k_W05/P7S_WG)

Skills

Students can:

4. use specialist terminology and follow theoretical positions resulting from English studies in order to work on their own advanced texts in English, referring to formal sources (k_U01/P7S_UW; k_U04/P7S_UK))

5. use the acquired knowledge and skills to deepen academic interests in the intra- and interdisciplinary dimension (k_U08/P75_UU)

6. use appropriate tools and methods to finalise own research problems and discuss them with their academic teacher (k_U06/P7S_UK)

Social competences

Students are ready to

7. prioritise tasks, managing the time and resources following the supervisor’s guidance (k_K01/P7S_KK)

8. accept linguistic and cultural differences and recognize them as natural professional conditions when solving their research problems (k_K03/P7S_KO)

Forms of evaluation of learning outcomes

1. Active participation in individual conferences - 50% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

2. sections of MA thesis - 50% of the final grade (outcome 2,3,4,5,7,8)

pass at 60% of the final grade