Enhance your skills and knowledge of teaching English as a Second Language/English as a Foreign Language (ESL/EFL). Develop practical teaching skills such as lesson planning, and listening, speaking and writing skills. This course is suitable for teachers of all levels of experience in the field of teaching ESL/EFL.

• Location:
  City Flinders and Off-shore
• Other locations:

  This course is offered Off-shore at partner institutions.

• College:
  VU College
• Course code:
  3113GATESOL
• Duration:
  100 hours
• Fees:
  $1,770 per semester

How to register

This course aims to both improve your English language skills and to expose you to communicative language teaching practices that can be either transferred to your own teaching classrooms or help you move into the field of teaching English as a second language. The course looks at a wide range of topics from practical teaching skills to assessment and the place of grammar in a communicative language classroom.

Learning Outcome 1: the impact of culture on learning
Learning Outcome 2: comparative teaching methodologies
Learning Outcome 3: lesson planning
Learning Outcome 4: the role of grammar
Learning Outcome 5: developing reading skills
Learning Outcome 6: developing listening skills
Learning Outcome 7: developing writing skills
Learning Outcome 8: developing speaking skills
Learning Outcome 9: the acquisition of vocabulary
Learning Outcome 10: assessment

Electives – Choose one from:
Learning Outcome 11: technology in the classroom OR
Learning Outcome 12: observations of appropriate TESOL classes.

This course is structured to both improve your English language skills and to expose you to communicative language teaching practices that can be either transferred to your own teaching classrooms or help you move into the field of teaching English as a second language. The course looks at a wide range of topics from practical teaching skills to assessment and the place of grammar in a communicative language classroom. The course objectives are listed below.

3113TESOL01 Have awareness of cultural impact on learning
3113TESOL02 Have awareness of various language teaching methodologies
3113TESOL03 Have awareness of the need for lesson planning
3113TESOL04 Have awareness of the role of grammar in teaching language
3113TESOL05 Have awareness of how reading skills are developed
3113TESOL06 Have awareness of how listening skills are developed
3113TESOL07 Have awareness of how writing skills are developed
3113TESOL08 Have awareness of how speaking skills are developed
3113TESOL09 Have awareness of how vocabulary is acquired
3113TESOL10 Have awareness of the place of assessment in language teaching
3113TESOL11 Have awareness of the place of technology in the language classroom
3113TESOL12 Has observed sector appropriate ESOL classes

Contact the English Language Institute: eli@vu.edu.au.