UNIT 1: STUDY SKILLS
(Not assessed) – How to organize your study time
- Personal motivation
- Planning and organizing study time - timetabling, study periods, realistic planning
- Study techniques - making notes, concept maps, nuclear notes, mnemonics
- 5 step reading techniques - selection, recognition, extraction, organization and transfer of information
- How the course works - role of tutor, tutor assessed and self-study tasks
UNIT 2: THE STUDY OF ENGLISH
Module 1
- Deductive Analysis and use of grammars
- Parts of speech and grammatical terminology
- The tense system, reported speech, active and passive
Module 2
- Elements of pronunciation: intonation including rising and falling tones, sentence stress, weak forms
- Sounds of the language/phonology - word stress, schwa sound, phonemic chart
- Teaching a ‘pronunciation point’
Module 3
- Lexis selection: frequency and appropriacy
- Lexis formation: synonyms and antonyms, word stems, parts of speech including prefixes and suffixes
UNIT 3: THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF ESOL
Module 1
- Overview of ESOL issues
- Being a caring teacher, involving students, using realistic language, keeping the students attention, teacher talking time, correction, levels in ESOL teaching, visual aids, use of mother tongue
- Teaching for exams: Cambridge ESOL, Professional English Examinations, TOEFL etc.
- The role of grammar, classroom techniques, one to one teaching
Module 2
- Listening and Reading: skills and the textbook, different kinds of listening, available materials
- Reading in a foreign language; types of reading, types of texts, writing comprehension questions, stages of reading activities, designing reading activities
Module 3
Speaking and Writing: what it’s like speaking in a foreign language, setting up speaking activities, types of speaking activities, discreet sound teaching, issues in writing, the nature of writing as a skill, organizing and planning writing activities
Module 4
- Visual Aids: study of all the audio-visual aids available
- Production of your own flashcards and aids to be used with a simple flannel graph
- Module 5 Error: looking at authentic student errors, classifying them, using a correction code, producing remedial exercises and improving your own practice.
UNIT 4 CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT AND ASSESSMENT
Module 1
- Learning and teaching: seating, name, teacher talk time, use of questions, ways of differentiating, managing interruptions, learning styles
- Lesson Stages and Plans
Module 2
- Parts and stages of a lesson
- Time management, group, needs analysis, writing aims and objectives, predicting problems, sample lesson plans at a range of levels
BONUS UNIT: YOUNG LEARNERS (NOT ASSESSED)
- Subjects covered in this unit are:
- Differences between the ways in which adults and children learn
- Features in the stages of development of Young Learners
- Classroom management strategies for use in the Young Learners classroom
- Teaching techniques for use with Young Learners