Qualified teachers wanting to develop their language awareness beyond initial training
To familiarise participants with descriptions of language commonly found in coursebooks and other published materials ('pedagogical grammar'). To enable course participants to critique such descriptions, both in terms of their descriptive accuracy, and their usefulness to learners.
11 modules covering: describing language, tense, auxiliaries and operators, question tags, modality, reported speech, future forms, forms with ‘have’ and ‘be’ and conditional sentences.
The course is run online and face-to-face by qualified tutors. Candidates are assessed on a portfolio of homework tasks and a detailed lesson plan that analyses a course book language area.
Twelve weeks, with a minimum of 5 hours per week online and doing tasks.
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