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Heriot-Watt University - Course Descriptor
1. Course
Code
C40TL
2. Course
Title
TESOL 3
3. SCQF 10
Level
6. Course
John Cleary
Co-ordinator
4. Credits
15
5. School
Management and Languages
7. Delivery:
Location &
Semester
Edin
SBC
Orkney
Dubai
IDL
Collaborative Partner
Approved Learning Partner
Sem 1
Sem…….
Sem………..
Sem……..
Sem….
Name…………………….....Sem..…...
Name …………………………………Sem………..
8. Pre-requisites
9. Linked Courses
(specify if synoptic)
10. Excluded Courses
11. Replacement Courses
C40TM
Code:
12. Degrees for which
this is a core course
Date Of Replacement:
13. The course may be
delivered to:
15. Aims
UG only
PG only
UG & PG
MA (Hons) Foreign Languages & TESOL
14. Available as an Elective?
Yes
No
Advanced Methodology
To enable students to identify and analyse positive and negative aspects of their third year teaching experience.
To foster in students a reflective approach to their teaching practice.
To deepen students’ understanding of the classroom and the teaching / learning process.
To enable students to extract from classroom observation of a variety of teaching situations a proper understanding of the ways in which classroom activity affects learning
as well as appropriate practical implications.
Language Testing & Assessment
To equip students with an understanding of the role of assessment in language teaching and principles of language testing.
To equip students with an understanding of different approaches to assessing language abilities.
To furnish students with familiarity with a range of significant published tests.
To give students practice in designing, piloting and evaluating their own test items, and understanding how test design principles relate to educational aims.
To introduce basic statistical measures underlying testing techniques.
Materials Design & Evaluation
To equip students with an understanding of syllabus design and how it informs materials design.
To enable students to evaluate materials such as course books and language learning technology and use these evaluations to inform their own materials design.
To acquaint students with recent approaches to syllabus design, the language teaching theories that underpin them, and how they are realised in materials (e.g. course
book) design.
To equip students with the means to evaluate course books, videos, CD ROMs and web sites in terms of their stated purposes and their usefulness in the classroom or selfstudy laboratory.
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16. Syllabus
Advanced Methodology
Reflection on Year 3 experiences, issues and problems; enhancing awareness of one’s own teaching practice. Observing range of language classes and drawing
conclusions from the observations. Practical aspects of teaching. Current issues in teaching and pedagogy.
Language Testing & Assessment
Formative and summative approaches to assessment. History, philosophy and ethics of language testing. Different types of language tests. Methods for testing different
language sub-skills. Basic statistics for scoring and evaluating test items. Evaluating tests in terms of the validity/reliability spectrum. Case studies of well known
published testing systems. Practical test design and piloting.
Materials Design & Evaluation
Principles of syllabus design: content selection, grading and sequencing; communicative syllabuses.
Identifying underlying syllabus design in course books and other published materials.
The role of the course book in ELT. Course book vs. authentic language materials. Supplementing and adapting course books.
Designing lessons around authentic language materials; making the design process systematic.
Writing teachers’ notes.
17. Learning Outcomes (HWU Core Skills: Employability and Professional Career Readiness)
Subject Mastery
Understanding, Knowledge and Cognitive
Scholarship, Enquiry and Research (Research-Informed Learning)
Skills
 Demonstrate knowledge that covers and integrates most of the principal areas, features, boundaries, terminology and conventions relating to
TESOL.
 Demonstrate critical understanding of the main theories, concepts and principles relating to TESOL.
 Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the ways in which of TESOL has developed, including a range of established research
methodologies.
 Critically review and consolidate TESOL-related knowledge, skills and practices and thinking.
 Develop the principal skills and practices associated with TESOL.
 Divide attention (multi-tasking).
 Develop a critical understanding of intercultural and interlingual issues.
 Address an audience in an appropriate manner.
 Ability to manage face-to-face interaction.
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Personal Abilities
Industrial, Commercial & Professional Practice
Autonomy, Accountability & Working with Others
Communication, Numeracy & ICT
 Practice in a range of professional level contexts which include a degree or unpredictability and/or specialism.
 Critically identify, define, conceptualise, and analyse complex/professional level problems and issues.
 Offer professional level insights, interpretations and solutions to problems and issues.
 Demonstrate some originality and creativity in dealing with TESOL-related issues.
 Communicate with professional level peers, senior colleagues and specialists.
 Exercise autonomy and initiative in interpreting and related activities.
 Work effectively under guidance with peers and with qualified practitioners.
 Make judgements where data/information is limited or comes from a range of sources.
 Make formal presentations (written and oral) about specialised topics to informed audiences.
 Use a range of software to support and enhance work at this level.
18. Assessment Methods
19. Re-assessment Methods
Method
Duration of Exam
Weighting (%)
Synoptic courses?
(if applicable)
Continuous Assessment
20. Date and Version
Date of Proposal
-
Method
Duration of Exam
(if applicable)
100%
Date of Approval by
School Committee
Date of
Implementation
Version
Number
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Diet(s)