Cultural literacy

Participants have a choice of lectures dealing with specific cultural aspects of the host
country (e.g. education, slang, cultural know-how).

Classroom Management

In this lessons we discuss how to plan lessons with maximum variety and interest, how to
group learners, how to correct errors, how to give directions and check concepts, how to
give feedback and how to transition between activities.

Teaching through media

Participants will enjoy learning about new approaches to learning through music, video, the
internet and other media.

Pronunciation

Pronunciation is dealt with in terms of the basics of phonetics and phonology as well as
practical activities. Participants will learn useful techniques to teach students individual
sounds as well as how they go together and form patterns of rhythm and intonation.

Grammar

We deal with grammar in terms of presentation and practice. Participants learn how to
make grammar interesting and communicative.

Task-based learning (TBL)

Task-based learning is one of the cornerstones of communicative language teaching and the
subject of several lessons, in which participants learn how to turn any activity into a three-
stage task-based activity, with a tangible result.

Methods and approaches

In this fast-paced lesson, we provide an entire overview of language teaching methods and
approaches, from traditional grammar-translations to contemporary communicative
language teaching (CLT)

Observations and peer teaching

Trainees will partake in peer teaching sessions, during with they teach and critique their
peers under the supervision of their trainers.
At the end of the course, participants will have:

 a greater understanding of teaching methodologies and be better able to self-reflect

on their own beliefs and practices
 a greater range of practical ideas, skills and strategies for teaching and assessing in
their teaching
 a clearer understanding of how English for academic purposes is taught in the
Australian context and be able to modify and improve their own teaching
 confidence to find and utilise on and offline resources.