English As A Medium For Instruction Course

Our new, 1 or 2-week course for 2024 on English as a Medium for Instruction includes developing skills as educators in an international tertiary context.

Objectives of this course include learning about teaching English to an international student body, discussing and experimenting with different teaching and learning methodologies, revising correction, feedback, and assessment & applying learning to own educational context.

On completion of this course, participants will have learned about and experimented with different methodologies. The goal being to find an approach that works in practice.

Participants will also have the opportunity to experience this for themselves through the use of CEC’s E-Learning platform which gives training in web skills through the use of English, neatly combining subject and language acquisition.

All Erasmus+ courses in Cork English College are open for Erasmus+ funding. Our organisational ID number is: E10195409

This course is for participants who wish to:

Improve their English

Gain a new perspective on teaching

Maximise their time and learning in Ireland

Live an enjoyable enriching experience

Improve their career prospects

Consider new ways of professional thinking

Studying English at Cork English College offers teachers the opportunity to refresh and gain additional skills in teaching English while making friends and experiencing the rich cultural heritage Cork has to offer.

As part of the course, you will gain an understanding of how to increase your professional knowledge within your institution. Course content will include lessons on:

Integrating HOTs and LOTs into course design

Correction and assessment

Developing and adapting materials and accessing resources

Demonstration lesson/peer feedback

SWOT Analysis & group discussion

Identifying techniques for experimentation

Developing content for delivery

Contextualisation of the learning experience

Speaking, reading, writing and listening