English for Teaching Purposes
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English for Teaching Purposes at Coursera Overview
Duration | 13 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
English for Teaching Purposes at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Approx. 13 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
English for Teaching Purposes at Coursera Course details
- Thinking about teaching your university subject in English but it?s not the Language you normally use?
- Then, English for teaching purposes is the course for you. A course on English and teaching methodology that aims to help university lecturers do their teaching in English, in line with university internationalisation policies.
- The course structure is the same for all learners and there are opportunities for them to link up with colleagues from universities all over the world who share the same discipline and discourse community, to ask questions and exchange ideas.
- This MOOC targets lecturers who wish to begin using English in their teaching. A priori, this means university lecturers from countries where English is not the L1 or a widely-used language (Romance language-speaking countries, for example), though in fact the course is open to teachers from all educational stages who want to teach through English, following the principles of EMI (English Medium Instruction).
- On completing the course, you should be able to do the following.
- a) Teach a university subject in English, having gained the necessary confidence and skills.
- b) Integrate all aspects of CLIL (methodological, pedagogical, strategic, attitudinal, motivational, linguistic, sociolinguistic and pragmatic) to put together their own English-medium course on their particular subject.
- c) Describe the characteristics of the university lecture discourse genre (planning, agents, channels, phases, dynamics, and current flexibility of the genre).
- d) Understand and perform the basic linguistic macro-functions within English teaching discourse.
- e) Understand and perform, using the appropriate linguistic exponents (vocabulary, structures, and phraseology), the main micro-functions in English teaching discourse: metalinguistic, informative, evaluative, inductive, and social.
- f) Consolidate their oral expression and interaction skills, and their grammar and vocabulary, at English levels C1 and C2 as defined by the Council of Europe.
- English for Teaching Purposes is a course provided by the Language Service at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).
English for Teaching Purposes at Coursera Curriculum
Unit 1. Implications for lecturers switching to English as the classroom language
What can this MOOC do for you?
1. First week introduction
1.1. What are the implications of changing over to teaching your classes in English at university?
1.2.1. What is English-Medium Instruction (EMI)?
1.2.2. Diversity of the EMI methodology
1.3. Is my level good enough to change over to teaching at university in this language?
1.4. Pronunciation
1.5. How do I control my nervousness?
1.5.1. Lecture discourse
1.6. Changing over to teaching in English: an opportunity to reassess and improve your lecturing
1.7. Different kinds of teaching intervention
1.8. What class sequence should I choose to teach in English?
Welcome, Learners!
Syllabus
Grading and Logistics
FAQ - General topics
FAQ- Time management
FAQ - Quizzes and assignment
FAQ - Certificate
About us
Week 1 material
Quiz (Week 1)
Unit 2. Functions related to delivering courses through English (1)
2. Second week introduction
2.1. Which text models does a teacher's oral discourse make use of?
2.1.1. Exposition and argumentation
2.2. How can I structure oral discourse?
2.2.1. Introducing courses and classes
2.2.2. Closing a class
2.2.3. Concluding
2.3. How can I clarify concepts for my students?
2.3.1. Giving examples
2.3.2. Classifying
2.3.3. Definitions
2.3.4. Comparing and contrasting
Syllabus
Grading and logistics
FAQ - General topics
FAQ - Time management
FAQ - Quizzes and assignment
FAQ - Certificate
About us
Week 2 Material
Productive Activity 1 (Optional)
Quiz (Week 2)
Unit 3. Functions related to delivering courses through English (2)
3. Third week introduction
3.1. Managing information
3.1.1. Describing a process
3.1.2. Expressing cause and effect
3.1.3. Describing graphs
3.1.4. Helping students process new information
3.2. Managing subjectivity
3.2.1. Expressing certainty
3.2.2. Presenting evidence
3.2.3. Giving opinions
3.3. Influencing the audience
3.3.1. Giving instructions
3.3.2. Motivating students
3.4. Managing interaction
3.4.1. Classroom interaction
3.4.2. Question management
Syllabus
Grading and logistics
FAQ - General topics
FAQ - Time management
FAQ - Quizzes and assignment
FAQ - Certificate
About us
Week 3 material
Quiz (Week 3)
Unit 4. Recording your class
Fourth week introduction
Syllabus
Grading and logistics
FAQ - General topics
FAQ - Time management
FAQ - Quizzes and assignment
FAQ - Certificate
About us
Week 4 material
Quiz (Week 4)
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