English Language
With a successful completion, participants should be able to:
The period of study is from 1 July to 13 December 2019 (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:
Mode of Delivery: Face-to-Face
Mode of Assessment: Continuous Assessment and Exam
Applied linguistics is an academic discipline that engages its communities of practice in studying, investigating, and reflecting on the relation of knowledge about language to making decisions in tackling language issues in both educational and social settings. Thus, applied linguistics course participants need to be engaged in discussing key topics, issues, or research areas within the discipline that have significant personal and professional implications for them as language users, learners, and teachers. This module introduces course participants to a range of issues, which fall into the major themes that have traditionally been associated to the applied linguistics discipline, i.e. language use and language pedagogy (including language learning/acquisition). This module does not only aim to equip them with sufficient background knowledge that prepares them for various relevant applied linguistics modules they will study in the blended diploma. It also intends to engage the course participants in critical dialogues on their perspectives on (English) language, and its implications on the ways in which they use, learn, and teach (English) language.
Mode of Delivery: Blended
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.
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.
*Modules may be subject to change
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.
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:
Without meeting any of the above, applicants are required to pass the RELC English selection test.
IT Requirements
As this is an online course, participants must ensure that they have the following minimum requirements being they can use the LMS program:
The closing date for application is on 3 June 2019.
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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