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TESOL courses detailed syllabus

This page presents the detailed course syllabus. A brief summary overview is also available.

The TESOL-direct TESOL course is expected to provide 150 hours of study but you can work at your own pace.

Module 1

Introduction
Language Teaching
- Grammar-Translation Method
- The Direct Method
- The Audio-lingual Method
- The Functional Approach
- The Communicative Approach
- Task-based learning
- Conclusions
Language Learning
- Motivation
- Language learning strategies
- The 'good' learner
Feedback on the tasks

Introduction
Focus on the Teacher and Learner
- 'Good' teachers
- The students' and teacher's expectations
- Interaction
- Group work and pair work
Focus on the Classroom
- Seating
- Your resources
- Displays
- The class library
- Gestures
- A general pattern of learning
Focus on practical skills for the classroom
- Giving instructions
- Error correction in the classroom
- Course books as a basis for your work
- Board work
- Useful teaching tips
Feedback on the tasks

Introduction
What is grammar?
Grammar in language learning
- Learning the grammar of our native language
- Thinking about grammar
The basic units of grammar
- Linguistic levels
- The structure of English sentences
- Word classes
Analysing language
- The form
- The meaning
Feedback on the tasks

Introduction
When to present a new piece of language
- Grading language
What to present
- Content of presentations
- Grammatical structures - form and meaning
How to present a new piece of language
- The presentation stage of the lesson
- Effective presentations
- Techniques
- Explanation
- Elicitation
- Discovery learning
Practical classroom techniques for presentations
Feedback on the tasks

Introduction
Speaking and writing
- The basic building blocks of speech
The sounds of English
The phonemic chart for English
- The consonants
- The vowels
- The diphthongs
- Word stress
- Indicating stress
- Stress rules for English
Elements in connected speech
- Sentence stress
- The features of connected speech
- Intonation
Speaking in the classroom
- Getting the students to talk
- Give the students a reason to talk
- Some points about pronunciation
- Practice drills
- Some more communicative activities
- What is the teacher's role?
Feedback on the tasks

Introduction
- An important skill
- Differences between listening and reading
There's listening, and then there's listening
- Clues to understanding
- Listening and responding
- The objectives of a programme of listening practice
Characteristics of listening passages
- Developing the sub-skills of listening
- General listening
- Listening for specific information
- Listening for the message
- Following instructions
- Predicting
Methods of developing your students' listening skills
- Questions and answers
- Short dialogues
- Short passages
- Re-ordering information
- Information transfer
- Using humour to develop listening skills
- Dictation
- Jig-saw listening
Feedback on the tasks

Introduction
- Intensive and extensive reading
- Attitudes to reading
- Reading for a purpose
Reading skills
- Skills related to understanding
Intensive reading
- Before-reading activities
- While-reading activities
Intensive reading: the class reader
- Selecting the reader
- Preparing to read
- Who does the reading?
- While-reading activities
Extensive reading - class library books
Feedback on the tasks

Introduction
Types of writing
The mechanics of writing
- Sentences and paragraphs
- Punctuation
- Spelling
Integrate the four language skills
Controlled and guided writing
- Controlled writing practice
- Guided writing practice
Marking
Feedback on the tasks

Introduction
- Lesson planning and variety
Lesson headings
- Lesson steps and lesson activities
- How much time will planning take?
Sample lesson plans
- Timing
Sitting down to plan
Other approaches to lesson planning
- ARC
- Task-Based Learning
Problems with PPP
Feedback on the tasks

Introduction
An introduction to testing
- The environment
- Why is the testing being conducted?
Test types
- Formative tests
- Summative tests
- Norm-referenced and criteria-referenced tests
- What language skills are being tested?
Getting the balance right
- Objective and subjective questions
- Correctness vs. appropriateness
Stages in the development of a test
Designing the questions
Testing vocabulary
Testing grammar
Testing writing
Testing reading comprehension
Testing speaking
Testing listening
Feedback on the tasks
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