Publication details
Burning Issues in English Language Didactics
| Authors | |
|---|---|
| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Challenges in Foreign Language Education |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Field | Pedagogy and education |
| Keywords | emancipation of subject matter didactics; identity problems: general issues and ELT specific controversies; English language didactics as a professional scientific discipline |
| Description | The efforts to emancipate English language didactics, to establish it as an autonomous scientific discipline, have been going on for quite some time. The core of discussion will relate to the specific controversies (or burning issues) in English language didactics. In addition to learning from other subject matter didactics and from other culturally shaped conceptions, it is also advisable to consider how the field is conceptualised in the fields of learning and teaching other foreign languages, German, French, Russian, etc. In the presentation, main attention will be paid to delineating the key concepts, content and methods of English language didactics, specifically then to the relationship between the so-called referential scientific disciplines and English language didactics. Obviously, the key relationship to be discussed is that of linguistics and English language didactics, furthermore, the second /foreign language acquisition theory and research must not be neglected, etc. |