Egzamin dyplomowy

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Zagadnienia do egzaminu dyplomowego w roku akademickim 2022/2023

Filologia w zakresie Filologia angielska

Pytania ogólne z językoznawstwa stosowanego/metodyki nauczania języków obcych na egzamin dyplomowy w roku akademickim 2022/23

Dr Agnieszka Habrat

  1. Present the structure of a PPP and ESA lesson and explain the role of the particular parts
  2. Are lesson plans necessary? Justify your answer.
  3. Describe five teacher roles and explain why a teacher might take up these roles.
  4. What criteria would you take into consideration while evaluating a course book or other teaching materials? Why is it worth supplementing or adapting a course book to the needs of a class?
  5. Discuss teaching grammar to different age groups – take into consideration approaches, methods and techniques.
  6. How to present grammar structures successfully? What aspects need to be covered? What is the role of situational context?
  7. Discuss common sources of error and techniques of error correction.
  8. What is the role of assessment? What forms of assessment do you know?
  9. Explain the differences between the following types of tests: proficiency, achievement, placement, diagnostic. What are the criteria for good tests?
  10. Discuss the role of the age factor in L2 acquisition.
  11. What are the affective factors in SLA? Present briefly their role.
  12. Discuss the role and major typologies of motivation in Second Language Acquisition.
  13. What makes teaching English to young learners different from teaching English to older age learners? Present the major characteristics of primary-school children as foreign language learners.
  14. Present the principles of planning English lessons for primary children
  15. What are the sources of discipline problems?
  16. Explain the following concepts, relevant to teaching culture in a FL class: enculturation, acculturation, culture shock, ethnocentrism
  17. Discuss pros and cons of using IT (information technology) in language learning

Pytania praktyczne

  1. Suggest some useful techniques for teaching listening
  2. Suggest some useful techniques for teaching speaking
  3. Suggest some useful techniques for teaching writing
  4. Suggest some useful techniques for teaching reading
  5. What is the role of pre-reading and pre-listening activities? Illustrate your answer with some examples
  6. Why is using stories worthwhile in teaching English to young learners? Present the most popular techniques of teaching English through stories.
  7. Explain the pros and cons of lockstep, pairwork and groupwork as patterns of classroom interaction. What stage of a lesson would you recommend each type for?
  8. What are the principles of giving effective class instructions? Should they be given in L2?
  9. Present five techniques of introducing elements of foreign culture in a language course.
  10. Give examples of websites and applications that can be used in collaborative language learning. Briefly evaluate each.
  11. Give examples of interactive language tasks designed with word-processing (Microsoft WORD) and presentation software (Microsoft PowerPoint).
  12. What is task-based teaching? Present the framework of the method and types of tasks. Give an example of a TBT lesson.
  13. How to prevent and deal with discipline problems? Give some examples to show how class management and discipline problems may be related
  14. What is the point of recycling vocabulary? Describe three classroom activities.
  15. Give an example of presenting grammar or vocabulary in situations.
  16. Describe three activities in order to demonstrate different ways in which you could use visuals in the classroom

Seminarium językowo-kulturowe

Dr Anna Rewiś-Łętkowska

  1. The Saussurean Dichotomies (langue vs parole, synchronic vs diachronic, syntagmatic vs paradigmatic, signifiant vs signifie)
  2. Polysemy and homonymy (definitions, examples)
  3. Speech functions (types, examples) )
  4. Speech Act theory (locution, illocution, perlocution, types of illocutionary acts)
  5. Politeness theory (positive and negative face/politeness, FTA, FSA)
  6. The Cooperative Principle (Grice’s maxims)
  7. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
  8. What is the linguistic worldview?
  9. The assumptions of the cognitive definition
  10. Primary Commitments of Cognitive Linguistics
  11. Categorization in Cognitive Linguistics (prototypes, better and worse members, family resemblance)
  12. Language and embodiment
  13. Conceptual metaphors and conceptual metonymies (features in common and differences)

Seminarium językoznawcze

dr hab. prof. PANS Alicja Witalisz

  1. Discuss word-formation processes in English; provide examples
  2. Discuss types of semantic change. Provide examples.
  3. Discuss derivation vs. inflection in English. Provide examples of derivational and inflectional affixes
  4. Discuss types of morphemes in English; provide examples
  5. Discuss conceptual and pragmatic meaning; provide examples
  6. Discuss sense relations: hyponymy, meronymy, synonymy, antonymy; provide examples
  7. Discuss componential analysis as a method of defining lexical meaning; provide examples
  8. Discuss the phenomena of polysemy and homonymy; provide examples
  9. Discuss major classes of verbs in English: intensive verbs, intransitive, mono-/di-/complex transitive, prepositional verbs
  10. Discuss the historical development of English vocabulary
  11. Discuss natural and artificial languages; provide examples
  12. Discuss arbitrariness as a unique feature of language
  13. Discuss the following concepts: specialized language, argot, idiolect; provide examples
  14. Discuss direct and indirect speech acts; provide examples
  15. Discuss the following concepts: displacement, cultural transmission, language productivity
  16. Discuss F. de Saussure’s definition of language: langue and parole
  17. Discuss F. de Saussure’s concept of linguistic sign: signifie and signifiant
  18. Discuss the theory of semantic fields; provide examples
  19. Discuss the basic functions of language
  20. Discuss the Proto-Indo-European language family; discuss comparative linguistics

Przykładowe pytania aplikacyjne:

  • Jak wykorzysta Pan/Pani w przyszłej pracy zawodowej nabytą podczas pisania pracy dyplomowej świadomość dwuznaczności językowej?
  • Jakie są możliwości praktycznego wykorzystania w przyszłej pracy zawodowej wyników Pana/Pani pracy dyplomowej?
  • Jak wykorzysta Pan/Pani w przyszłej pracy zawodowej nabytą podczas pisania pracy dyplomowej umiejętność analizy i syntezy przeciwstawnych poglądów?
  • Jak użyje Pan/Pani zbadane strategie przekładowe zastosowane w pracy dyplomowej do wykonania przykładowego zadania w pracy zawodowej?
  • W jakim stopniu tematyka Pana/Pani pracy umożliwi Panu/Pani modyfikację planu lekcji w przypadku nieprzewidzianych problemów związanych z poziomem uczniów?
  • Jak Pana/Pani praca przygotowuje Pana/Panią do zastosowania właściwych technik poprawiania błędów i odpowiedniego testowania wiedzy uczniów?
  • Jak tematyka Pana/Pani pracy pomoże Panu/Pani w rozwiązywaniu problemów z dyscypliną podczas nauczania języka angielskiego?
  • W jaki sposób wyniki Pana/Pani pracy / umiejętności zdobyte podczas przygotowywania pracy przyczynić się mogą do rozwiązania przykładowego problemu, który może Pan/Pani napotkać w pracy zawodowej?
  • Które z technik omawianych w Pana/Pani pracy wydają się Panu/Pani najbardziej potrzebne w przyszłej pracy zawodowej?
  • Proszę podać dwa przykłady sytuacji zawodowych, w których będzie można zastosować wyniki Pani/Pana pracy licencjackiej?