You will have 24 hours of face-to-face sessions with your teacher. In half of these sessions, you'll be exploring various theoretical aspects of teaching English as a foreign language. You should expect a range of learning activities, for example, individual work, group discussions, role-plays, pair work, mini-lectures from the tutor, etc.

The other 12 hours will take the form of tutor observation of your lessons (either with peers or students enrolled on ISC courses) with tutorial feedback. The tutor will explore the techniques involved in self-reflection, with particular reference to your performance in delivering a series of EFL classes.

This module will give you practice in two main areas:

1) ELT teaching and learning methodology in practice.
2) Planning and delivering L2 lessons, with clearly focussed aims.

You will be reading and talking about L2 teaching methods and approaches. You will also be preparing lesson plans with a view to applying these ideas and techniques. Finally, you will be putting the theory into practice when you deliver a number of teaching sessions, either to an individual student or group of students.

A REFLECTIVE LOG weighted at 70%. A WRITTEN COURSEWORK ASSIGNMENT dealing with a theoretical aspect of English language teaching, weighted at 30%.

1) A REFLECTIVE LOG showing evidence of your ability to reflect on applying your learning to practice. This will be informed by theoretical studies and teaching practice/observations sessions. Weighted at 70% (LO 1, 2, 3)

2) A WRITTEN COURSEWORK ASSIGNMENT in which you show evidence of your grasp of the theoretical underpinning of current teaching models. Weighted at 30% (LO 1, 3)

* The library
* A PC with MS Office and Internet
* Individual and group study space
* A good advanced learner's English dictionary
* Multimedia equipment (DVD player, listening station)

You are not required to buy any particular course book. However, the following are useful introductions for ELT:
Appel, J. (1995) Diary of a Language Teacher (Oxford: Heinemann)
Swan, M. & B. Smith (2001, 2nd edition) Learner English (Cambridge: CUP)
Thomson, A.J. & A.V. Martinet (1986, 4th ed.) A practical English grammar (Oxford: OUP)
Thornbury, S. (1997) About language (Cambridge: CUP)
Watkins, P (2005) Learning to teach English (Addlestone: Delta)

There are no special requirements for this module other than an interest in teaching ELT.