Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

English for Teaching Purposes

Taught in English

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals

Silvia Solá Viñals
Jose Ygoa-Bayer
Ian James

Instructors: Silvia Solá Viñals

4.7

(570 reviews)

13 hours to complete
3 weeks at 4 hours a week
Flexible schedule
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There are 4 modules in this course

Analysing the critical issues (contextual, linguistic, motivational and methodological aspects). Level of English. Managing anxiety. Improve through re-thinking your teaching to improve it. Teachers’ discourse. Analysing real practice and choosing a particular class as a basis for later course work.

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12 videos10 readings1 quiz

Functions related to discourse structure: beginning and ending a class, concluding. Functions related to clarifying concepts for the students: giving examples, classifying, comparing and contrasting, defining.

What's included

12 videos9 readings1 quiz

Functions related to information management: describing processes, expressing cause and effect, describing graphs, helping learners to manage new information. Functions related to evaluation: expressing certainty, presenting evidence, giving one’s opinions. Functions related to induction: giving instructions, motivating learners. Functions related to socialisation: handling classroom interactions and questions in the learning environment.

What's included

16 videos8 readings1 quiz

Recording the class sequence analysed throughout the course.

What's included

1 video8 readings1 quiz1 peer review

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4.8 (133 ratings)
Silvia Solá Viñals
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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