Part 2: Cactus Online English Language Methodology Course
When you have completed part 1 of the course, you're ready to start the second part of the course which looks at English Language Methodology. As with English Language Awareness in Part 1, you complete 30 lessons in total.
Each lesson focuses on a particular area of TEFL and is taught through a combination of reading, exercises, videos of teachers and students in the classroom and online discussion with a tutor and other people on the course. The English Language Methodology component of this course takes longer than part 1 because you also submit five assignments which receive feedback from a tutor.
Contents
LEARNING A LANGUAGE
Learning
- • Our experience of learning
- • Learning a language
- • Truths and Untruths about language learning
Roles
- • Roles of the teacher
- • Roles of the learner
Talking to students
What do we teach?
- • The four skills
- • What am I teaching?
ASSIGNMENT 1: Observing a lesson
DEFINING LANGUAGE
Teaching vocabulary
Teaching grammar
- • How good is your grammar knowledge?
- • Ways of presenting and practising grammar (+ video)
- • Timelines
- • Concept questions
Teaching functions
Teaching pronunciation
Correcting errors and mistakes
ASSIGNMENT 2: Teaching language
THE LEARNERS
The level of your students
The needs of your students
- • Categorising by need
- • Teaching Business English
- • Teaching Children
- • Teaching ESL
Learning styles
- • Learning styles in the ELT classroom
Types of motivation
Examinations
ASSIGNMENT 3: Student case study
TEACHING THE FOUR SKILLS
Teaching speaking
- • Fluency or accuracy
- • Role play
Teaching listening
Teaching writing
Teaching reading
A course book for your students
ASSIGNMENT 4: Using a reading text
LESSON PLANNING
Initial questions about lesson planning
Stages of a lesson
Defining your aims
- • Match the aim to the activity
Organising the classroom
ASSIGNMENT 5: Planning a lesson
What you need to know by your first day
- • Questions for your first day
- Activities for your first day of teaching
