BACHELOR DEGREE IN ENGLISH TEACHING

BIN 20: ENGLISH DIDACTICS

MSc. Leandro Mora Torres
IC- 2018
Exam extra pts.

 Answer each of the given questions using your own words.

 Work individually.
 Be careful with grammar and punctuation as it is going to be for the test

1. Why does MEP implement the new Curriculum within the Framework of Education for a New
Citizenship?
2. Write 3 legal foundation for the new English Curriculum.
3. Create a Chart to summarize the main philosophical foundations for the new English Curriculum.
4. Create a chart to summarize the Language Learning Considerations in the new English program.
5. Create a chart to summarize the pedagogical conceptualization.
6. What is CEFR?
7. What are the CEFR levels?
8. Why is CEFR implemented in the Costa Rican English teaching context?
9. What is the level Costa Rican students are intended to achieve once they finish the Diversified
Education Cycle?
10. What is The Action-Oriented Approach?
11. What is a task and what is its role in the language class?
12. Create a chart summarizing teachers and learners role in the classroom.
13. Create and outline of the mediation principals for Third Cycle and Diversified Education.
14. Create a Venn Diagram about the communicative approach and the action oriented approach.
15. Define and exemplify the 4 domains to be worked and the new language program.
16. Match definitions in column A with the corresponding term in column B. Write the number in the
corresponding parenthesis.

Column A Column B

1. Linguistic competence: lexical, phonological, and syntactical knowledge. ( ) Scenario

2. A question, which fosters understanding and critical thinking for students ( ) Domain
to transfer their learning to new contest.
3. A real-life situation providing authenticity of situations, tasks, activities, ( ) Sociocultural
 texts.

4. The focus of attention for communicative acts. ( ) Essential Question

5. Refers to the broad sectors of social life in which social agents operate. ( ) Function

6. Can do performance descriptors. ( ) Themes

7. The use of spoken discourse and/or written texts (acts of speech). ( ) Assessment Strategies

8. Required evidence of student´s learning. ( ) Linguistic Competences

9. Politeness conventions, expressions of folk wisdoms, register differences, ( ) Learn to Know

dialects and accents.

10. Oral comprehension, written comprehension, oral and written production ( ) Goals