ED52040: Professional skills and practice in TESOL
[Page last updated: 15 August 2024]
| Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Education |
| Credits: | 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 200 |
| Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
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- Academic Year
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| Assessment Summary: | CWPF 100% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Portfolio of reflection and practice (CWPF 100%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
By the end of this unit, students will be able to:
- Continuously develop their professional skills and practice on how to teach English as an international language;
- Demonstrate a critical understanding and sensitivity towards approaches, design and practice of English language teaching;
- Recognise approaches and issues related to the design of teaching materials and teaching practice;
- Place their own experiences within a conceptual framework constructed from the plurality of developments and issues through a self-reflective approach;
- Demonstrate skills relevant for language educators as reflective practitioners.
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| Synopsis: | Gain the professional skills and practices of English language education.
You'll explore current issues and debates in English language teaching and classroom practices. You'll challenge your thinking and assumptions about how English is taught and learned worldwide and develop your professional practice through a more critical understanding of language teaching approaches, techniques and design.
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| Content: | This unit will cover the following content:
- Skills of a reflective practitioner (e.g. reflective learning journal, Kolb's reflective learning cycle)
- Issues relating to classroom talk and interaction (e.g. translanguaging, giving constructive feedback, giving clear instructions)
- English language teaching skills
- Global issues in English language teaching (e.g. decolonisation, UN SDGs, climate change)
- Project-based learning skills
- Team working and debating skills
- Professional skills for continuous professional development
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| Course availability: |
ED52040 is Compulsory on the following courses:
Department of Education
- THED-AFM71 : MA Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2024/25 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2025/26 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2024/25.
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