English Language Teaching Practice I
Course code
GRA7676.HT
old course code
GRA7676
Course title in Estonian
Inglise keele põhipraktika I
Course title in English
English Language Teaching Practice I
ECTS credits
6.0
Assessment form
Examination
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
The aim of the course is to connect subject knowledge with actual school experience, to support the student’s interaction with the school in their role as a teacher, and to enable students to gain experience and develop as a subject teacher.
Brief description of the course
The course enables candidates to acquire essential subject knowledge and familiarity with the principles of effective teaching, acquire a range of practical skills for teaching English, and to demonstrate their ability to apply their learning in a real teaching context.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
By the end of the course, the students (with assistance from the instructor) will:
- understand the basis on which areas or items of language may be included in syllabuses, schemes of work or lesson plans, and are aware of the ways in which English Language teaching relates to learners’ general educational development and, where relevant, to the curriculum as a whole;
- understand appropriate concepts and terminology to describe form and meaning in language and language use and apply this understanding to planning and teaching language skills and specific language items, and to developing fluency and accuracy
- be able to use, adapt, supplement or create resources and materials, with due regard to copyright requirements, for teaching skills and specific language items and for developing fluency and accuracy to suit the needs of specific groups of learners, and where relevant, are aware of the role and use of self-access materials and of the ways in which learners can be helped to use them effectively
- be able to evaluate their own planning and teaching with reference to the achievement of objectives, and the development of language skills, can take account of feedback from tutors, colleagues and learners and use these insights to develop their own practice
- be able to establish rapport and foster a constructive and an emotionally and physically safe learning environment
- be aware of the different roles they may play in their professional lives as teacher, colleague, and employee, and of the personal and professional qualities these roles may require
By the end of the course, the students (with assistance from the instructor) will:
- understand the basis on which areas or items of language may be included in syllabuses, schemes of work or lesson plans, and are aware of the ways in which English Language teaching relates to learners’ general educational development and, where relevant, to the curriculum as a whole;
- understand appropriate concepts and terminology to describe form and meaning in language and language use and apply this understanding to planning and teaching language skills and specific language items, and to developing fluency and accuracy
- be able to use, adapt, supplement or create resources and materials, with due regard to copyright requirements, for teaching skills and specific language items and for developing fluency and accuracy to suit the needs of specific groups of learners, and where relevant, are aware of the role and use of self-access materials and of the ways in which learners can be helped to use them effectively
- be able to evaluate their own planning and teaching with reference to the achievement of objectives, and the development of language skills, can take account of feedback from tutors, colleagues and learners and use these insights to develop their own practice
- be able to establish rapport and foster a constructive and an emotionally and physically safe learning environment
- be aware of the different roles they may play in their professional lives as teacher, colleague, and employee, and of the personal and professional qualities these roles may require
Teacher
Piret Bossack
Prerequisite course 1
The course is a prerequisite