What is English didactics?

 

English didactics is the science of teaching and learning of the English language, literature, and culture

 

The word didactics comes from the Greek language didaskein. It means teaching and art of teaching. Didactics refers to the principles, phenomena, forms, precepts, and laws of teaching with no subject in particular

English didactics deals with theories, ideas, principles and instructions directed at successful conduction of educational process

All books that deal with theories, ideas, principles, methods and follow a consistent scientific approach or educational style to present information to English students belong to Didactics

 

Didactics of English language is simply about the way English language should be taught. It is a set of methods, theories and approaches that scientifically explicate how a language is acquired as well as how it should be taught

 

For this reason, we define didactics as the discipline that studies techniques, procedures, strategies, and methods to enhance the teaching process for students to approach in a wide, deep, and significant way the knowledge in the process of acquisition of English as a foreign language

 

Didactic strategies point to the group of developed activities considering not only students’ understanding of ideas but also a mutual relationship among specific information and a  particular activity, as a general norm of input
 

With the implementation of strategies in the process of teaching English, the teacher looks for a common project. In a collaborative group, all students make the duties together, that means that they construct the knowledge mutually. Therefore, didactic strategies should be seen as: on purpose organization of the teaching and learning process structure to achieve goals in which students not only learn a subject matter, but also gain knowledge of other forgotten contents as the capacity of cooperation, respect for oneself and the others’ differences

 

Didactics is in charge of elaborating the ideal teaching procedures to promote the alphabetization process or the acquisition of knowledge of subject matters; it refers also to meta cognition strategies, such as being able to understand, to apply, to analyze, to make synthesis, to perceive, and of course to create

 

Consequently, didactics refers to ten didactic strategies for the teachers to guide the students into cultural diversity and rights in order to have the benefit of equal learning opportunities