Reconceptualizing language teaching: an in-service teacher education course in uzbekistan

CONTENT OF TEACHING AND LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGE
FOR LEVEL B2
Higher Education
Non-Linguistic Undergraduate Programmes
Competencies
CONTENT OF TEACHING AND LEARNING
TOPIC 
BASED 
CON-
TENT
Topics related to the Internet and ICT
Sociocultural topics on the specialism (specific compari-
sons and contrasts between Uzbekistan and target lan-
guage countries, e.g., UK & USA, France, Germany).
Topics of specific/ professional purposes (background 
specialisation, trends in specialisation)
Topics related to social life (social contact with the sur-
rounding world).
• 
Linguistic compet
ence
Compet
enc
e in language 
sk
ills
List
ening
Learners should be exposed to:
• lectures, presentations, debates
• radio and TV reports, news bulletins, interviews, docu-
mentaries, etc. 
• announcements
• recorded native speaker voices (films, documentaries, 
public speeches, etc.)
• social talk between target language speakers
Skills to be developed: listening for gist; listening for detailed 
understanding; listening for specific points or information

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RECONCEPTUALIZING LANGUAGE TEACHING
Speak
ing
Spoken Interaction 
• transactions
• social talk and informal conversations
• formal and informal discussions within and beyond the 
learner’s specialism
• chairing or leading a discussion
• interviews
• negotiations
• telephone calls
Spoken Production (monologue)
• making reports
• developing an argument, e.g., in discussion of a special-
ist topic
• stating and supporting an opinion
• making announcements
• making a presentation on a specific topic
• summarising an article, a discussion, etc.
Reading
• correspondence, including emails, notes and messages, 
as well as letters
• authentic texts containing specific material
• texts containing specific lexis and terminology, e.g., 
abstracts, reports, extracts from textbooks
• scientific and specialist literature (periodicals, E-literature)
Skills to be developed: reading for gist; reading for specific 
information; reading for detailed understanding; reading for 
orientation (signs, labels, etc.)