Syllabus

Specialty: 5B010500 “Defectology”

Form of study: full-time

Year of study: 3

Number of credits: 2

Total number of hours: 90

Including:

Practical lessons: 30

SIWwT: 15

SIW: 45

Midterm control: 2

Examination: 5 semester

Taldykorgan 2015

Lecturer: Anara Alipbayeva–Master of pedagogical sciences, teacher of the Department of training and education methods. Address: Taldykorgan City, Yerkin village, 26 Suleyev Street. Phone numbers: 40-10-22 (work), 32-60-42 (home), 87052659036 (mobile). E-mail: a.alipbayeva@gmail.com.

Discipline: Professionally oriented foreign language.

Time: practical classes are conducted according to the approved schedule.

Prerequisites: Foreign language, block of obligatory psycho-pedagogical disciplines (introduction to pedagogical profession, psychology, ethnopedagogy, pedagogy, human psychology, school hygiene, bases of medicine), theoretical basis of the native language.

Post-requisites: additional literature in English for mastering discipline: special pedagogy, deaf-and-dumb pedagogy, oligophrenopedagogy, typhlopedagogy, logopedics, special psychology, deaf-and-dumb psychology, logopsychology, private methods of teaching.

Course purpose: formation of students’ knowledge, abilities and skills in the fundamentals of defectology in a foreign language.

Course objectives:

-formation of professional and practical skills in the field of the foundations of modern defectology;

- formation of students’ skills of dialogue and interchange of information on professional themes;

- improving skills and abilities of oral and written speech in English language, that is necessary for professional dialogue;

- improving skills of grammar mastering;

- improving skills of reading and translation of scientific literature on specialty.

-improving skills of presenting monologue statements on professional topics (reports, messages, etc.)

- improving skills of independent work from the special literature in a foreign language with the purpose of taking professional information.

After studying the course, students will have the following competencies:

- abilities to use knowledge of various other-speaking theories of special needs education and human development;

- mastering the ways of organizing professional activity in the other cultural environment, considering features of sociocultural structure of society;

- abilities to participate in interdisciplinary and interdepartmental interaction of experts in the solution of professional tasks;

- abilities to use the main international and domestic documents in professional activity.

During the course students will know:

- about a place, a role, kinds of oral and written communications in professional activity;

- about main sources of the professional foreign language information speaking;

- about world tendencies of development of science and technologies on the specialty;

- about foundations of modern defectology a foreign language;

- about main categories of children with disabilities in psychophysical development in a foreign language;

- about peculiarities of psychophysical development of children with disabilities a foreign language;

be able to:

- conduct conversations in everyday and professional topics;

- use reference literature in a foreign language;

- translate texts with the help of dictionary in accordance with language norms;

- understand phrases and statements of studied topics in a foreign language;

- apply the grammar material typical for professional foreign language;

- apply the terminological units studied when speaking;

- understand the information, to distinguish main and minor, essence and details in professional business texts within the subject studied;

- retrieve some information from professional business texts;

- produce written texts of the genres studied;

- annotate special professional texts;

- translate special professional texts from one language into another within topic studied;

- prepare presentations and speak on the topics given;

have experience:

- in preparing presentations and introducing them;

- in using dictionaries, including terminological ones;

- in debating on the topics connected with professional activity;

- in effective application of the communicative strategies specific for professional-business situations;

- in working as written and oral texts of the genres and formats studied;

During the semester students will be expected to perform the following scope of work: to prepare and defend a project on one of the selected topics; to take the colloquium on the topics of SIW; write 2 tests; to pass the final exam (lexical and grammar testing, writing, listening task, reading task).