Technology+in+Education+(Professional+Development)

**Learner**

 * ==== The Class is made up of 4-th year undergraduate students majoring in teaching a foreign language (English/German/French) from relatively diverse ethnic background (local minorities) and approximately homogenous cultural and economic backgroud. ====
 * ==== Previous college level learning experience is the same ====

Students will be able to:

 * ==== differentiate between functional and structural aspects of the human language ====
 * ==== distinguish typological features of natural and artificial semiotic systems ====
 * ==== evaluate properties of a linguistic sign ====

**Learning Environment**

 * ==== Campus auditorium ====
 * ==== Eighty minutes in-class discussion ====
 * ==== This is a f2f class ====

**Teaching Strategies**

 * ==== Students will be addressed six questions offered to them in advance ====
 * ==== Students will be lead in the discussion by the teacher ====
 * ==== Students will be encouraged to make substantive presentations, critical remarks and additions ====
 * ==== Teacher's evaluation at the end of the class ====

**Learning Strategies**

 * ==== Students will practice making coherent argumentative reports stating a hypothesis, analizing data and drawing conclusions ====
 * ==== Students will have exposure to a number of research viewpoints on the topic ====

**Support Technologies**

 * ==== Blackboard ====
 * ==== Overhead projector ====
 * ==== Computer with PPT files and internet access to the LinguistList webpage ====

(The standard higherEd Ukrainian four grade (2-5) system for both formative and summative assessment )

 * ==== Students will be evaluated on their ability to produce oral independent, well-grounded and comprehensive reports and to use contextually correct linguistic terminology at the end of the seminar with grades in the class register ====

**Summative Assessment and Revision Plan**

 * ==== Post seminar two-page written paper ====
 * ==== Individual and group pre-exam consultations ====
 * ==== Final exam at the end of the semester ====