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    Quick Facts

    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    INR 1600yesFuturelearn

    The Syllabus

    Meet the team
    • 1.1 Meet the team
    • 1.2 Course content
    What does language involve?
    • 1.3 A spiral model of language
    • 1.4 Exploring the spiral model in your classroom
    • 1.5 Creating specific meanings across the curriculum - discourse
    • 1.6 Creating specific meanings across the curriculum - grammar and vocabulary
    • 1.7 Thinking about text, register and context
    • 1.8 Two types of register - BICS and CALP
    How do we learn language?
    • 1.9 How do we learn language?
    • 1.10 Making Space for Talk
    • 1.11 How do you make space for talk in your own classroom?
    • 1.12 Some key principles
    Who are our learners?
    • 1.13 Profile of a Polish bilingual family
    • 1.14 The English as an Additional Language (EAL) Learner
    • 1.15 Who are your EAL learners?
    • 1.16 Looking backwards and forwards

    The language demands of school
    • 2.1 How to support our language learners: learning environments with high number of languages spoken
    • 2.2 Listening to an explanation in a language you do not know - what's it like for our language learners?
    • 2.3 Phases, activities and language demands
    Supporting learners in the classroom
    • 2.4 It’s more than osmosis
    • 2.5 How to support our language learners: Discipline specific strategies
    • 2.6 Opportunities for language learning - adapting lesson plans to suit our language learners
    • 2.7 What resources do your pupils bring to the classroom? The use of the L1 – translanguaging.
    • 2.8 Using learners' languages as a resource: translanguaging in the classroom.
    • 2.9 Scaffolding - supporting our learners' language development
    • 2.10 How can we scaffold our learners' language development?
    • 2.11 Using what's available and asking more of what you already do

    Patterns in texts - taking a genre approach
    • 3.1 The genre cycle
    • 3.2 An example of deconstructing a model for genre analysis
    • 3.3 Our learners' writing
    • 3.4 Giving feedback on our learners' writing
    • 3.5 Genres in your classroom
    Generating talk in the classroom
    • 3.6 Planning for student talk
    • 3.7 Visual Journeys - using picturebooks to generate interest and talk
    • 3.8 Using Visuals in the Classroom
    • 3.9 Feedback on talk
    • 3.10 Quiz on feedback
    Some key ideas to take away
    • 3.11 Assessing language learning
    • 3.12 Learner profiles and assessing competence
    • 3.13 Your learners' profiles
    • 3.14 The take home messages
    • 3.15 So what's next?

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