TESOL Strategies: Supporting ESL Students in Mainstream Classrooms Online distance learning
Learn the basic principles, considerations and strategies for cultivating a rich language-learning environment
- Length: 3 weeks; 4 hours per week
- Start date: anytime
- Introductory; leads to further study opportunities
Why this course
Explore strategies to support the language needs of learners
With increased migration and refugee flows, most teachers are encountering increasingly diverse students in their mainstream classrooms. This course is designed for teachers at all levels, working with language learners across the curriculum.
This course will give you new insight into the different aspects of language, the language learning process and the demands of different curricular areas. It will enable you to enrich your daily practice to ensure the needs of the language learners are met.
Course structure
Syllabus
Week 1: about language and learners
- Meet the team. An introduction to the team and to the course
- What does language involve? This first activity explores the many dimensions of language.
- How do we learn language? In this step we look at how we learn language and the strategies we develop to do this.
- Who are our learners? Knowing about who our learners are and what kind of language learning experiences they have outside the classroom can help us, as teachers, know what language and cultural resources these learners bring to the classroom.
Week 2: about classroom demands and strategies
- The language demands of school. In these steps we will look further into what some of the language demands of school are.
- Supporting learners in the classroom. In these steps, we will look at some specific approaches and strategies we can adopt in our classrooms.
Week 3: working through text and talk
- Patterns in texts - taking a genre approach. Here we will look at different text types or genres that our learners will encounter in the classroom and consider the types of feedback we might give to our learners on their writing.
- Generating talk in the classroom. In these steps, we will look at how we can generate talk in the classroom and consider some of the ways we can provide feedback on talk to our learners.
- Some key ideas to take away. A brief recap of the key points assembled over the course.
How to register
Registration is free
The course is hosted on an external learning platform, Futurelearn.
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