Advanced Certificate / Advanced Diploma Upgrade Residential Teaching Practice Block

In this upgrade Teaching Practice course the general objectives require each student to be able to:

1. demonstrate a thorough grasp of the main phonological, lexical, syntactical and other aspects of modern communicative English, with particular reference to its rôles as a means of communication.
2. predict with reasonable accuracy the learning needs of any group of ESOL, EAL, or ESP students at various levels, modify and update such a needs analysis in the light of observation and testing.
3. write instructional objectives and prepare effective lesson plans.
4. teach effectively structures, lexis and phonology at any level from beginners to advanced.
5. undertake a small scale research project which will examine some aspect of methodology; classroom management; remediation etc., involving data collection and analysis of the participant's own class(es).
6. discuss intelligently an extensive repertoire of lesson forms.
7. demonstrate an ability to prepare and teach successfully a series of assessed ESOL lessons at various levels.
8. monitor his or her own effectiveness as a teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages.