{"id":24233,"date":"2021-10-20T10:51:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T09:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chi.ac.uk\/?page_id=24233"},"modified":"2021-10-20T11:15:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T10:15:10","slug":"english-language-teaching-for-university-and-college-teachers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.chi.ac.uk\/study\/international\/international-short-programme-unit-ispu\/english-language-teaching-for-university-and-college-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"English Language Teaching for University and College Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
This programme will provide participants with a background to current issues in English language teaching methodology and seek to improve participants’ knowledge and professional skills in practical pedagogy.<\/p>\r\n
This programme will provide participants with a background to current issues in English language teaching methodology and seek to improve participants’ knowledge and professional skills in practical pedagogy.<\/p>\r\n
We will examine current issues in English language teaching and learning and their theoretical underpinnings and consider the implementation of teaching methodologies in the English language classroom.\u00a0 We will focus on skills development, exploring how the processes of writing can be developed in students, ways of developing students’ academic reading skills, their listening and speaking skills and the development of both fluency and accuracy.<\/p>\r\n
Current approaches in the field of teaching English vocabulary and new research in the field of teaching grammar will be explored.\u00a0 The practical implications for classroom teaching of all these areas will be considered.<\/p>\r\n
The programme will enable the participants develop the skills to conduct their own classroom-based research and involve them in evaluating their current practices as a basis for change and development.\u00a0 In addition, the course seeks to develop participants’ personal language competence.<\/p>\r\n
Aspects of contemporary English in its socio-cultural context will be examined. \u00a0We will also concentrate on the development of English language skills in professional contexts. \u00a0We will explore the interaction that occurs between “research in the classroom”, “innovation in education” and “the improvement of teaching and learning processes” in the Conducting Classroom-based Research component.<\/p>\r\n
Finally, competency to teach effectively at university level in an EMI context, calls for the ability to formulate and explain complex concepts at a high level of abstraction.<\/p>\r\n
We will explore pedagogical principles, recent educational research, the language demands and the implications for EMI curriculum design.<\/p>\r\n
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This programme aims:<\/p>\r\n
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Our Learning Resources Centre is\u00a0a whole building dedicated specifically to learning resources, where far from the traditional materials of a library, participants will find resources from and to be used in schools, for every subject and curricular level.<\/p>\r\n
We will use active learning methods, involving practical activities, problem-solving strategies, reflection and developing Critical Thinking strategies.\u00a0 Our programme will examine examples of good pedagogic practice both in the UK and elsewhere.<\/p>\r\n
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