Cactus TEFL - English Language Awareness Online Course

The new online course from Cactus TEFL is useful, practical, thorough and above all excellent!

Jan Bateman, CELTA Tutor & Assessor

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

  • Introducing the tutors and teachers on this course
  • Cactus TEFL Glossary
  • The Library
  1. Getting started
    • Overview and Introduction to the course
    • Introduce yourself
    • Get help with ELM
  2. Learning
    • Our experience of learning
    • Learning a language
    • Truths and Untruths about language learning
  3. Roles
    • Roles of the teacher
    • Roles of the learner
  4. Talking to students (+ video)
    • Grading your language
  5. What do we teach (+ video)
    • The four skills
    • What am I teaching?
  6. FORUM ONE
    • ASSIGNMENT ONE (+ video): Observing a lesson
  7. Teaching vocabulary
  8. Grammar
    • How good is your grammar knowledge?
    • Ways of presenting and practising grammar (+ video)
    • Timelines
    • Concept questions
  9. Teaching functions (+ video)
  10. Teaching pronunciation
  11. Correcting errors and mistakes (+ video)
    • What type of mistake
  12. FORUM TWO
    • ASSIGNMENT TWO: Teaching language
  13. The level of your students (+ video)
  14. The needs of your students
    • Categorising by need
    • Teaching Business English
    • Teaching Children
    • Teaching ESL
  15. Learning styles
    • Learning styles in the ELT classroom
  16. Types of motivation
    • Ways of motivating
  17. Examinations
    • Teaching exam classes
  18. FORUM THREE
    • ASSIGNMENT THREE: Student case study
  19. Teaching speaking (+ video)
    • Fluency or accuracy
    • Role play
  20. Teaching listening (+ video)
    • Using songs
  21. Teaching writing
    • Correcting writing
  22. Teaching reading
    • Correcting writing
  23. A course book for your students
  24. FORUM FOUR
    • ASSIGNMENT FOUR: Using a reading text
  25. Initial questions about lesson planning
  26. Stages of a lesson
  27. Defining your aims
    • Match the aim to the activity
  28. Organising the classroom
  29. ASSIGNMENT FIVE: Planning a lesson
    • Correcting writing
  30. What you need to know by your first day (+ video)
    • Questions for your first day
    • Activities for your first day of teaching
    31. FORUM FIVE

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