English Language
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
The period of study is from 6 July to 18 December 2021 (24 weeks). Students are required to attend 10 weeks of compulsory residential school:
(Note: Dates listed are tentative and subject to change.)
Students will do the 3 blended (online) modules in their home country during weeks 7 - 18.
Description of Modules
This course consists of six modules:
*Modules and their mode of delivery offered are subject to change.
Mode of Delivery: Blended
Mode of Assessment: Continuous Assessment and Exam
This module introduces the basic theoretical principles related to language assessment. Course participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their own language assessment practice in relation to their teaching objectives. There will also be hands-on practice in the planning, designing, and grading of assessment related to receptive and productive language skills. Additionally, this module will explore the rationale for assessment for learning, and the key approaches in implementing such classroom-based assessment.
Mode of Delivery: Face-to-Face
This module combines current language curriculum theory with hands-on application. Through lectures, group work discussions, readings, and classroom tasks and activities, course participants will become familiar with the many trends and challenges in language curriculum design and implementation.
This module is designed firstly to develop participants’ understanding of the theoretical bases for the teaching of listening and speaking skills in an ESL/EFL classroom. It also gives focus on the types of micro-skills and strategies involved in listening and speaking and some of the issues and challenges involved in teaching these skills. The course will also critically examine current approaches to teaching listening and speaking skills and will incorporate a dimension of multimodality.
This module deals with the principles, design and procedures in the teaching of reading and writing in ESL/EFL situations as well as in a multimodal world. The integration of theory and classroom practice will be achieved via journal writing, sample lesson plans and micro-teaching sessions. Key reading theories and writing approaches will be explored and discussed vis-à-vis the course participants’ teaching and learning contexts. There will be a special focus on helping participants to make the transition from the traditional print-based literacy to multimodal-based literacy (reading and viewing, writing and representing) involving more than one mode of conveying meaning – spoken, written, visual, gestural and spatial.
This module prepares course participants to teach grammar in a wide variety of intra/international contexts. The status of English as a global language has prompted a shift in the ways in which English grammar is conceptualised, learned, and taught. In addition to introducing course participants to different conceptualisations of language/grammar, the module engages them in critical discussions on a variety of pedagogical principles and practices for teaching English language grammar. In light of these discussions, the module provides participants with an opportunity to design their own lesson plans, and assessment tasks that can potentially be implemented in their own teaching and learning contexts. The issues surrounding teaching grammar, and future directions for researching/teaching grammar are also discussed.
*Modules may be subject to change
In today’s technologically driven society, learning languages has gone digital and classrooms have become increasingly high tech. How should our English Language teachers respond to the use of technology in their classrooms? What is the role of technology in the teaching of the English Language? How do SLA concepts and methods be made evident in the classrooms that use technology? These questions and issues will be covered in this module. This module will familiarise participants with the current approaches, concepts, principles and practices of the use of technology in teaching and learning of ESL and EFL. Participants will have the opportunity to select, evaluate and curate digital learning tools in their application of SLA concepts and methods in their own teaching contexts.
The requirements for admission to the course are:
Note: Applicants who do not meet criteria #3 are required to pass the RELC English selection test.
Applicants with a minimum grade of B- in an Advanced Specialist Certificate for a particular module conferred by RELC will be eligible for an exemption from the particular module offered in the postgraduate diploma course.
IT Requirements
As this is an online course, participants must ensure that they have the following minimum requirements for having access to a Learning Management System (LMS):
The closing date for application for Year 2021 class is 26 February 2021.
Students from outside Singapore are advised to subscribe to the Group Health Insurance Scheme at S$53.50 per month (inclusive of GST), as medical costs in the event of illness can be very high.
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