Didactics of Foreign Language

The Didactics of Foreign Language PhD programme from Masaryk University aim is to provide young researchers, or experts in the decision-making sphere with high-quality academic preparation based on very good traditions of domestic and international theoretical and empirical research relevant to educational policy and practice in the field of foreign language education.

The Didactics of Foreign Language PhD programme from Masaryk University concept also pursues objectives of a more general nature, in particular the need to support the formation of a common theoretical background of subject didactics as a qualitatively new approach to (general) didactic thinking and also contribute to ongoing processes of teacher professionalisation.

Career opportunities:

The graduate can find employment as a researcher in educational research institutes, university lecturer, consultant in the field of language education, author and assessor of foreign language coursebooks and other curricular and didactic teaching materials, designer of language education concepts.

After successfully completing his/her studies the graduate is able to:

• understand the theories, concepts and methods that represent current field didactic issues and trends at the international level, and analyse, interpret and evaluate new knowledge and changing concepts in foreign language teaching;

• apply theoretical knowledge in research and educational practice;

• design and implement didactic research, interpret and evaluate its results;

• convey the results of their research to the professional community in the form of a monograph or a chapter in a collective monograph, papers at domestic and international conferences;

• represent their field in the wider interdisciplinary community, in the public and in other areas (e.g. language-political level, educational practice, etc.).