Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• communicative language teaching
• the role of the teacher and the learners
• the content of language teaching and how it can be organised
• principles of syllabus design, needs analysis and classroom organisation
• some of the fundamental principles, issues and activities involved in the teaching of a foreign language, with particular reference to English.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• plan and organise your own learning schedule

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• plan a language programme based on sound pedagogical principles and on an analysis of students’ needs
• describe how the learner’s and teacher's approach to the language class affects the learning outcomes
• evaluate a current programme and say whether it meets certain criteria

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.