Course Content

Four week Onsite TESOL Program (ATI)

Pre Course Reading Pack:

• What is TESOL?

• Basic Theories behind Second Language acquisition

• Discussion of Grammar and Connectionism

• Taking the Lexical approach

• Psycholinguistics and Bilingualism

• Sociolinguistics
  (Condensed with assignment)

Week 1

• Group Building

• Course Introduction

• Foreign Language Experience

• Theatre in the Classroom

• Tuning In (Warmers)

• Three P’s of TESOL

• Teaching Listening

• Looking at Errors

• Peer Teaching

• Context and Language Modeling

• The Basic Approach

• Classroom Management

• Planning and creating a lesson

• Peer Teaching

• FLE

• Mechanics of Articulation

Week 2

• First lesson Demo

• Team teaching TP

• Young Learners

• How to teach Grammar

• Feedback

• Using Aids (IM)

• Music in the class

• Preparation for TP

• Grammar- basics (classes and elements)

• Communicative ways

• Techniques and Methods in successful L2 Classroom

• TP

• CAL (Comp asst learning)

Week 3

• Teaching Reading

• TP YL (2)

• Teaching Writing

• Receptive Skill lesson demo

• Feed back

• Lesson Planning

• Using the Text book

• Eng for Specific Purpose

• Preparation for RS TP

• Approaches to teaching

Week 4

• TP Reading

• TP Listening

• TP Writing

• TP Trainee's choice

• Feedback

• TP Preparation

• Checking of documents

• Graduation