Hello and a warm
welcome to the explainer video for the module ENG 01
respectively ENG 08 Introduction
to the English Language Literary Studies and the Teaching of English.
This video is for students attending bachelor programs
in the field of primary, secondary and special needs education,
and it gives you an overview of your first English module.
For some of you, this might be the first semester
at the PH Heidelberg.
So this video aims to help you get organized and plan your studies.
We will first take a closer look at the module overview
and module handbook, then continue with the courses
you need to do and finish with the exam.
So let's start off with the module overview,
which is also called Studienverlaufsplan and gives you some orientation
which courses you can study in which semester.
You can find the module overview in the download center
of the website of the PH.
So here you can see that when you're studying
secondary or special needs education, you're probably taking this module
in your first semester.
Whereas if you're studying primary school teaching,
you're probably already in your second semester.
So let's move on to the module handbook.
You can find the module handbooks also in the download area of the PH website.
You search for English and choose the first module,
the Basismodul. Depending on which course of studies you take,
there are different module numbers for secondary
and special needs education students
the module is called ENG 01, and for Primary school student
it's called ENG 08.
When you complete this module, you will get nine credit points,
eight in total for the seminars and lectures
and one for the exam.
Let's take a closer look at the seminars and lectures.
There are three obligatory courses.
By saying courses I mean seminars, respectively
lectures. There's a course called Introduction
to the English Language, also known as Linguistics,
which gives three credit points, a course called Introduction
to the Study of Literature, which gives two credit points
and the course called Introduction to Teaching English
as a Foreign Language, also known as TEFL, which gives three credit points.
Within the Linguistics course
you will explore the English language and its structures,
so you will, for example, deal with phonology and phonetics.
So the sound system of English, but also morphology,
which focuses on parts of words and word forms and many other topics.
It is highly recommended to also attend the tutorial
for Linguistics, because it is an additional opportunity
to engage with the content.
The book that you need for this course is written by George Yule
and is called The Study of Language.
Within the Literature course you will explore aspects of literature
for example, fiction, poetry, drama and critical approaches
The texts that you need are usually collected in a reader,
to literature.
which you are asked to buy at the beginning of a semester.
Those two courses are the same for special needs education,
secondary and primary education students.
The third course is called Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language.
In this course, you will be introduced to theoretical and practical concepts
of teaching English as a foreign language.
There are two different seminars for TEFL.
One seminar is for special needs education and secondary students
and the other for primary education students.
The book that you need for the seminar differs depending
on which field of studies you are taking, so please check StudIP
for book recommendations.
Tutorials for TEFL are also offered and are highly recommended. In LSF
you will get further information on course details, such as the time,
place and so on.
You register for the courses on StudIP, so you search the course
that you want to register for and then you click at Zugang zur Veranstaltung
and that's it.
Finally, let's have a short look at the exam.
It's a written exam and there is no grade for it,
so it's a pass or fail.
It consists of three parts Linguistics, Literature and TEFL.
The exam is written in the exam period
at the end of the term. Your lecturers will give you
more information nearer the time.
So good luck with your exam and your studies in general
and thank you very much for watching.
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