Complementos para la formación disciplinar en inglés This course provides an introduction to English teaching training, focusing on various key issues, such as the position of the English language in the world, the methodological approaches to language teaching, the relevance of exploring the cultural dimension in the classroom and the resources for the teaching of English.

Comprensión Lectora y Producción Escrita This course is addressed to trainees or novice English language teachers and aims to provide them with an understanding of the nature of reading and writing in a foreign language and to explore different ways in which we can help students develop their reading and writing skills.

Estrategias de comunicación: la interacción en el aula de enseñanza de lengua inglesa (optativa) This course explores classroom interaction and situated learning with a special focus on teacher-learner interaction in the English language classroom in secondary education. We will analyse the influence of interaction patterns in teacher-learner relationships and in the learning process. The course illustrates how different methods and approaches to language teaching and learning will bring about different possibilities of interaction and different results in learning. Special attention will be devoted to the communicative method and task based language learning and teaching (TBLT). Interactional pragmatics and politeness studies will be presented as providing useful concepts for the understanding of conversational style and the construction of teacher-learner relationships. This module intends to be of immediate interest to future language teachers as it will contribute to the improvement of their communication skills, orient their selection of teaching approaches and facilitate understanding of teacherlearner interaction and its consequences in the creation of safe learning environments.