Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• some of the fundamental principles, issues and activities involved in the teaching of a foreign language, with particular reference to English.
• communicative language teaching
• principles of syllabus design, needs analysis and classroom organisation
• the content of language teaching and how it can be organised
• the role of the teacher and the learners

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• evaluate a current programme and say whether it meets certain criteria
• describe how the learner’s and teacher's approach to the language class affects the learning outcomes
• plan a language programme based on sound pedagogical principles and on an analysis of students’ needs

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• plan and organise your own learning schedule

In this module, you will learn about key issues, concepts and methods involved in teaching English as a second/foreign language. Topics to be covered will range from the broader aspects of the place of English as a world language through more specific teaching issues of the roles of the teacher and learner in the language classroom, the nature of communicative competence and its relationship to communicative language teaching, and programme design and the needs of language students. The module’s indicative content will include

• communicative language teaching;
• classroom management and roles;
• teaching grammar and vocabulary;
• teaching listening and reading skills;
• teaching writing and speaking skills;
• managing error, correction and giving feedback.

Teaching methods include

seminars;

workshops.

Learning activities include

individual study;

preparing presentations and discussions in small groups.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.