Refresher Course for Language Teachers

Location: ATC Dublin

Maximum group size: 15

Minimum Level of English: B2

Applicable for Erasmus+ KA1

Dublin Course Dates 2024:

Monday 1st  to Friday 5th July

Monday 22nd to Friday 26th July

Monday 19th to Friday 23rd August

*Courses can also be organised year-round for closed groups in our Dublin City Centre or Bray school.

Course Description:

This course offers a real alternative for teachers who feel that their teaching relies too heavily on a grammar-focussed syllabus, who want their students to be more motivated and engaged in their language learning, and to better use the target language in real communicative situations,  inside and outside the classroom.

The course focuses on Task-based teaching and learning, a learner-centred methodology which puts communicative language use at its core. Focusing on real-world tasks it provides a robust methodology that gives learners the freedom to use language communicatively and gives teachers principled techniques to work on the development of their students’ language.

The course begins by exploring the core concepts of a task-based approach. Throughout, teachers apply the principles of the methodology to the design of engaging, collaborative tasks. They look at how to sequence tasks into a lesson framework and also consider how the task-based approach can be used with different student groups. Teachers also consider how to focus on language within the communicative framework of a task-based lesson, and look at ways of ensuring their lessons provide a good balance of opportunities for real, communicative language use, and development of students' knowledge of language form. 

Participants are introduced to free online resources which they can use to support their students in independent language learning.

Teachers are also given the opportunity to participate in an online forum for continued support and sharing of best practice after the course.

Course Modules:

Core Pedagogical Concepts of the Task-based Approach

Lesson Planning for the Communicative Classroom

Designing Tasks and Materials: Working with Texts

Designing Tasks and Materials: Working with Topics

Language Work in a Task-based Lesson (Vocabulary, Grammar, Pronunciation)

Developing Language Skills

Digital Tools for Exploring Language Independently

ATC’s 1 week Refresher course can be combined with another 1 week Teacher Training and Development course or a General English course, to form a 2-week programme, contact us for details.

For teachers applying through the Erasmus Plus scheme the OID for ATC Language Schools is E10133233.

 

For more course choices please see the link – ATC Teacher Training & Development.

https://atclanguageschools.com/courses/teacher-courses/