Teacher’s Diploma course

Staying constantly up to date on better and new ways of teaching English is a must when we
are looking to develop professionally. Learning a more student-oriented way of teaching is a
way to increase the outcomes of the learning process. As teachers we always have to be
aware that our students are human beings who already have tools they can use in their
learning process and that our main goal is to help students use them in communicative
situations.

Main objective:

Participants will teach a communicative, humanistic, learner centered English class.

Specific objective:

Developing teaching abilities centered on the learner for in-context communicative skill
development through a humanistic approach.

Course Contents:

1. The learner i. Trends in

communicative
a. Student’s centered vs content language teaching
centered learning ii. Process based CLT
b. Student’s needs approaches
c. Motivation iii. Products based CLT
d. Difference between ESL and approaches
EFL d. Total physical response
e. Authonomous learning e. The silent way
f. The natural approach
2. Humanism g. Suggestopedia

a. Carl Rogers and the humanistic 4. Lesson Planning

theory
b. Humanistic concerns and a. Connecting content with
implication student’s needs and concerns
c. Humanistic Approaches to b. Steps on lesson planning
teaching c. Student’s talking time vs
teacher’s talking time
3. English Teaching approaches
5. Class Management
a. Overwiew of language teaching
approaches a. Classroom interaction
b. The oral approach and b. Grouping students
situational language teaching c. Seating
c. Communicative language d. Giving instructions
teaching e. Disruptive behavior

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 6. The Common European Framework of 9. Teaching grammar
Reference for Languages
a. Teaching grammar in context
a. What is CEFR? b. Connecting: form and meaning
b. Language levels c. Teaching grammar inductively
d. Teaching grammar deductively
7. Developing productive skills: speaking e. Drilling
and writing
10. Language awareness
a. Speaking as a way of interacting
b. Conversation and discussion a. Errors and correction
classes b. Learner’s first language
c. Communicative activities c. Relationship between form,
d. Fluency, accuracy and function and meaning
communication
e. Kinds of speaking 11. Resources

8. Developing receptive skills: listening a. Realia

and reading comprehension b. Authentic materials
c. Digital resources
a. Real life listening
b. Listening to English as a foreign 12. Assessment procedures
language
c. Cognitive strategies to teach a. Differences between evaluation
receptive skills and assessment
d. Metacognitive strategies for b. Difference between assessing
receptive skills and grading
e. Extensive reading c. Purposes of assessment
d. Factors influencing assessment

Assessment

Theoretical and practical assessments will be carried out twice on each module and
the Certification Exam for “Especialidad en Enseñanza del Inglés” will be the final
exam.

Certification

At the end of the course participants will be invited to take an exam to get certified
for the Specialty in Teaching English. During the course, participants will prepare
their class video as well as the corresponding lesson plan.

Modules:

This is a 100 hours course which will be taught in two 50 hour modules.

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Schedule:

Wednesday from 4 to 8 p.m.

Or

Fridays from 4 to 8 p.m.

Starting date:

September 28th, 2016 (for Wednesday’s group).

September 30th (for Friday’s group).

Tuition fees:

$2,020 per module: $4,040.00 total

Payment information:

Bank depot, funds transfer or cash payments.

Funds transfer
Bank: HSBC
Clabe 021215040112620607
Please send copy of transfer receipt to:
andresmer@ulm.edu.mx

Bank Depot
Bank: HSBC
Account No. 4011262060
Name: Instituto Celayense, S.C.
Scan or photocopy the deposit receipt and send it to andresmer@ulm.edu.mx or turn it in
personally at CEDI’s office.

Debit or credit card payments: At the Administrative Direction in Campus.

Bring an official ID.

Check payments:
Pay to: Instituto Celayense, S.C.

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External Services
Language Center
Universidad Latina de México
Celaya, México
01 461 6134385 Ext. 121
andresmer@ulm.edu.mx

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