Ostravská univerzita

Creative English (CJP/CREAT)

6 credits
Lecturer: Mgr. Ivona Cindlerová
Lessons (Lectures + Exercises + Seminars): 0 + 2 + 0 [hours/week]
Semester: summer
Credit test preceding examination: none
Requirements: B1
Teaching method: seminars, individual work, group work, presentations, language games
Registration for examination: written application
Examination method: teaching practice portfolio assessed, written test
Status of the course in study program: B. The course is offered to all study programmes and is provided by the Centre of Foreign Language Education.

Annotation:

The course provides the students with creative writing and reading mainly to strengthen their language communicative competence and to develop their knowledge of didactics and methodology. The course focuses on submitting original work for peer critique (fiction and poetry).

Aims and objectives:

The main aim of the course is to teach the students correct writing and reading in the English language (various styles and techniques) through 'creative stimuli'

Students will be able to:

understand texts that focus mainly on common language in everyday usage
enter into conversation 'unprepared' and respond with phrases and collocations
explain viewpoints on a topical issue
use authentic oral and written language
present various language games and adapt them in a creative and effective way.

Topics of seminars:

1. Associations and brainstorming.
2.-3. Types of texts and their meaning, reflection (e.g. hypertext, adverts, notices).
4.-5. Poems (from Medieval English texts to modern poetry, Haiku).
6.-7. Language games (various strategies and techniques).
8.-9. Music as a language stimulation.
10.-11.Visual aids as a language stimulation.
12.- 13. Own 'creative language portfolio'.

Literature:

KODETOVÁ, N. Situational English I. Ostrava : PdF OU, 2009.
WALTER,C. Authentic Reading. Cambridge: CUP, 1991.
PHILLIPS, S. Drama With Children. Oxford: OUP, 2002.
REDMAN, S., English Vocabulry in Use Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate. Cambridge: CUP, 2003.
CAHILL, N., PRATT, M., Literacy Skills Through Rhyme and Rhythm. OUP: Oxford, 1993.
COE, N., RYCROFT, R., ERNEST, P., Writing Skills. CUP: Cambridge, 1993.