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
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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