1. Name the components of communicative competence and give an example for each.

2. Michael Byram's goal of foreign language teaching is the intercultural speaker. Name three criteria that make a learner an intercultural speaker and explain them.

3. Explain and discuss the IRE pattern in classroom.

4. How would you support oral production in the language classroom? What do you need to consider? Give an example.

5. Name and explain the three models of teacher education.

6. Why is sociocultural knowledge not enough for ICC?

7. Give 5 examples how to teach vocabulary.

8. Teacher role: classroom manager and researcher. Explain!

9. Explain and discuss the IRE pattern in classroom discourse.

10. What is a learning strategy? Give an example for learning strategies inside and outside the classroom.

11. Three characteristics of a good language learner.

12. Explain the concept of intertextuality.

13. Name at least three principles of Intercultural learning and give examples of how to support all those in the language classroom.

14. What is the difference between PPP approach and task-based language learning?

15. Difference between real-world tasks and pedagogic tasks. Give one example for both.

16. What are the 6 characteristics of Nunan's task-based language learning? Describe them by giving an example of a real-world task in the foreign language classroom.

17. Name three ways of using the computer in the EFL classroom. Choose one approach and describe the advantages they have for language learning.

18. Explain the top down and bottom-up processing in relationship to reading and listening.

19. What are the implications of a process approach to writing? Name four aspects.

20. What kind of insights do mistakes provide for the teacher? Give an example.

21. Name three ways of teaching the word "ambulance" in the EFL classroom.

22. How must function and content words be taught differently?

23. Give five reasons for using stories/young adult literature in the EFL classroom.

24. What is a discourse? Give a defibnition and use one example.

25. Explain the term "internal grammar" or "interlanguage".

26. Name three roles a teacher has to fulfil and explain them.

27. Explain the word "task" in the foreign language classroom. Then imagine the following teaching situation: The teacher introduces the days of the week and different kinds of food. After telling the story "The very hungry caterpillar" with the help of story cards, the pupils have to look at the pictures and retell the story. Label the parts of the task.

28. Which approach to the teaching of grammar is used in these teaching situations?
a) Pupils are taught auxiliaries by talking about the function of modal auxiliaries in the sentence. They are given a rule which they apply on the sentence level, e.g. by finding examples in the sentences.
b) Learners tal about rules at school and at home. What must they do/ what are they not allowed to do etc. Modal auxiliaries are used but their primary function is communication.

29. What are the levels of involvement in reading? What are the varieties of reading styles?

30. What are the purposes for real-life writing?

31. What are learners' preferences?

31.2 Name three ways how to store words in the mental lexicon.

32. What are the three different language properties?

33. What are sequencing activities?

34. What are proceduralizing tasks?

35. What are conversional modification strategies?

36. What are the two skills one needs for reading?

37. Why is listening so important?

38. What are the purposes for listening?

39. How can you help students to understand a text they listen to better?

40. What is an effective methodology for the teaching of listening?

41. What kind of knowledge helps guessing nknown words while reading?

42. What is the difference between "Landeskunde" and cultural studies?

43. What are auto- and hetero-stereotypes?

44. Why is learning-centered approach for cultural studies important?

45. Why has writing become so important nowadays?

46. How can a teacher support writing?

47. How should feedback be on writing?

48. What are the major elements for speech production?

49. What makes speaking a complex skill?

50. Why is task recycling good for learners?

51. Name dierent types of speaking activities.

52. What are the advantages and disadvantages of learning English in the foreign language classroom?

53. What are the characteristics of CLT?

54. What is the sociocultural approach to language learning?

55. How can teachers support learning strategy use?

56. What are the characteristics of the task-based approach?

57. What other forms of TBLL do exist besides project work?

58. What is electronic literacy and multi literacy?

59. Explain the function of the mental lexicon.

60. How many words should a teacher introduce in 45 minutes?

61. What is a communication strategy?

62. Name the major phases of teaching/learning languages.

63. Name three different associations how words can be stored in the mental lexicon.

64. What are language chunks?

65. What is the lexical approach?

66. What five questions are important before we start to teach grammar with the TBLL approach?

67. Explain the priciple of communicative language teaching.

68. What is the literary triangle?

69. What is the potential of literary texts?

70. What is literature with a capital "L" and a regular "l"?

71. What is efferent and aesthetic reading?

72. What is "closed reading"?

73. What is reader-response criticism?

74. Why is literature good for intercultural learning?

75. Explain the literary model of DELANOY.

76. Why is children's literature good to use?

77. How to design creative tasks while teaching literature to support ICC?