2 weeks
Course Length
Mon to Fri
Lesson Days
15 a week
Lessons
English
Language
C1
Minimum Level
Overview
Current trends will develop an awareness and understanding of current ELT principles and practice and your ability to critically examine current ELT principles and practice in order to evaluate current trends in context with your own teaching.
You’ll cover a range of methodologies, examine them to see what works for you and look at ways of incorporating new approaches into your teaching. The course is going to explore teaching issues relevant to your own teaching context of practical teaching ideas and materials.
Completing this course will help you:
- To learn more about contemporary approaches and techniques
- To look at the principles and methods underpinning contemporary trends
- To experience and assess practical teaching concepts and resources
- To examine teacher and pupil needs
Who is the course for?
Course Sample programme
Week 1 | Course Content |
Monday | Course expectations and your teaching context Introduction to resources |
Tuesday | Overview of methodologies and approaches Introduction to Task – based Learning Comparing TBL with PPP |
Wednesday | Introduction to the Lexical Approach – Lexical Approach technique |
Thursday | Counting Dictation and Decoding – Dictogloss and Differentiation activities – Review of Grammaticisation and differentiation technique |
Friday | Teaching Unplugged and Dogme- A Dogme lesson demonstration – Looking at the theory behind – Principled Eclecticism |
Week 2 |
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Monday | Review of key principles and techniques – use of authentic materials, as well as technology for learning |
Tuesday | Using technology in the classroom M-learning: advantages and disadvantages of BYOD – Using iPads: games and activities – WebQuest: technology treasure hunt for classroom resources |
Wednesday | Giving feedback: different ways of giving feedback for speaking and writing – Error correction and reformulation |
Thursday | Testing: different methods of assessment -Teaching mixed levels: challenges and ideas |
Friday | ‘Current’ current trends -End of course review and certificates |
*Please note that the course content may be subject to change due to latest methodology trends updates.
1 lesson=45mins
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Methodologies
Total Physical Response
Total Physical Response is considered to be an excellent way of learning vocabulary. Moreover, since it is based on commands, the students can easily learn the meaning of the words in the target language.
The Structural Approach
This method is based on the opinion that it is imperative to understand the structures of the language. Understanding the complexities of the structures of the sentences in a language is more important than learning the vocabulary of the language.
The Direct Method
This method primarily focuses on the development of oral skills. One of the most important characteristic feature of this method is that visual materials and real-life objects are used. Moreover, such an oral training helps in reading and writing. There is no translation involved in this method.