ENGLISH LABORATORY II

English Language Laboratory 2

Degree Program:

Educational Sciences

Scientific-Disciplinary Sector (SSD):

L-LIN/12 – Language and Translation – English Language

Course Type:

Language Laboratory

Credits:

3 ECTS

Total Hours:

24 hours

Language of Instruction:

English

Language Level:

A2+–B1 (CEFR)

Course Description

The laboratory aims to consolidate and expand the communicative competence developed during the first year.

The course introduces additional grammatical structures and communicative functions necessary to talk about past experiences, recent events, and future plans.

Particular attention is given to the development of oral interaction and communicative fluency.

The laboratory also strengthens the link between English language learning and the context of primary school teaching.

Learning Objectives

The laboratory aims to:

• consolidate communicative competence in English
• expand vocabulary related to everyday life and the school context
• develop greater fluency in oral communication
• introduce grammatical structures related to past and future

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the laboratory, students will be able to:

• interact in simple communicative situations with greater confidence
• describe past events and experiences
• talk about future plans and intentions
• express recent experiences and the duration of actions
• understand short written texts

Professional Skills for Future Teachers

The laboratory promotes the development of language skills useful for future primary school teachers.

Students will practice:

• using English for basic classroom interaction
• giving instructions and explaining simple activities
• communicating with pupils using clear and simple English
• understanding basic teaching materials and instructions
• using English in basic educational contexts

Children’s Literature and Storytelling

The laboratory includes activities based on short narrative texts from children’s literature.

Students will explore how stories and storytelling techniques can support English language learning in primary school.

These activities aim to:

• improve reading and listening comprehension
• expand vocabulary
• introduce basic principles of storytelling in language teaching

Course Content

The laboratory will cover the following topics:

• classroom language
• teaching English in primary school: basic methodological concepts
• describing past events and experiences
• expressing recent experiences
• talking about future plans and arrangements
• vocabulary related to social life and the school context
• reading short texts from children’s books

Grammar and Language Structures

• revision of A2-level grammatical structures
• Past Simple
• adverbs of time
• Present Perfect
• just / already / not yet
• Present Perfect Continuous
• for / since
• Present Continuous for future use

Laboratory Organization

Teaching Methodology

The laboratory adopts a communicative approach integrated with elements of the humanistic-affective approach.

Activities include:

• guided grammar exercises
• listening and reading comprehension activities
• communicative tasks
• pair work and role plays
• reading short children’s literature texts

Assessment

Students’ learning will be assessed through a written test including:

• grammar exercises
• vocabulary exercises
• reading comprehension
• writing sentences reflecting A2+/B1-level spoken language expressions

Teaching Materials

• Teaching materials provided by the instructor, taken from English File A2/B1 – Oxford University Press
• Graded readers: selected children’s stories in English

Recommended Reference Book

• Murphy, R. Essential Grammar in Use – Cambridge University Press