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Refresher Courses For Overseas Teachers of English

FACULTY

Teaching English as a Foreign Language

MODULE CODE

TEFL002

HOURS PER WEEK

25

TIMETABLE

Monday to Friday 9am to 3pm

COST

£780 for 2 Weeks
CANCELLATION POLICY: If cancellation is made less than four weeks before the beginning of the course a cancellation charge of £250 will apply.

ACCOMMODATION

Available on request

COURSE DATES

4/04/2011 – 15/04/2011
19/06/2011-1/07/2011
11/07/2011- 22/07/2011
1/08/2011- 12/08/2011
15/08/2011-26/08/2011
12/09/2011- 30/09/2011
17/10/2011-28/10/2011

Other dates can also be arranged on request.

ACHIEVEMENT

Upon successful completion of the course you will receive an in-house certificate including description of training and time input.


COURSE DETAILS

The Refresher Course is suitable for school teachers, from both the private and state sectors from all over the world. It provides a balance of English language development and training in teaching skills and methodology. The teacher training component aims to raise an awareness of techniques and skills in the classroom in line with the Communicative Approach methodology and current EFL thinking.

TEACHER REFRESHER COURSE TOPICS

Below are examples of topics that will be covered in the methodology part of the course.

  • Learning styles, role of Communicative Language Teaching in current teaching
  • Classroom management issues, especially including error correction
  • Planning and staging lessons using different lesson structures
  • Production of spoken language; planning and carrying out genuinely communicative activities, resources, trouble-shooting
  • Skills development, listening & reading sub-skills, lesson, staging, delivery and materials
  • Writing sub-skills, the writing process, motivation and materials
  • Using music, songs, AV and drama in class, materials and activities
  • Teaching phonology, especially phonemic discrimination, word/sentence stress and intonation which non-native teachers invariably find challenging
  • E-learning: advantages and disadvantages, online resources
  • ESP including, children, teenagers, business classes and one-to-one teaching
  • Insight into the Welsh culture and language