ICTEFL - Introductory course to Teaching English as a Foreign language
Who is the course for?
In recent years the interest in English language learning and teaching has grown steadily in Eastern Europe and the new post Soviet Union states.
Thus, this Course Curriculum is especially designed to meet the needs of teachers who:
- Are motivated to maintain their own continuous professional development;
- Teach in large, inflexible classes with few resources;
- Follow a set syllabus and textbooks and have little control over course content or choice of material
- Are not native speakers of English;
- Have little time available for lesson planning and preparation.
Aims of the course
- To convince the trainees of the “tightness” of communicative language teaching. Throughout the course the trainees are asked to experience and evaluate techniques from the learner’s point of view. Thus the Course aims to make the trainees more aware of their role as helpers in the learning process.
- The adoption of new teaching methods depends on teachers developing new insights and attitudes; so the course is concerned not only with practical training but also with teacher education.
- To involve trainees in a critical evaluation of their current textbooks including the classroom exercises and activities they contain with a view to adaptation along more communicative lines and use in more communicative ways.
- The teacher education is mainly carried out implicitly through the Course activities; for example, teachers are asked to evaluate teaching techniques or choose between alternative teaching strategies.
- An important element of the Course is teaching practice, in which trainees are given the opportunity to put into practice in a real classroom situation what they have discussed in the seminars that make up the course.
Contact person – Tetiana Tereshchenko
