Improve your Language Analysis for Teaching Purposes
Analysing and Integrating Language
Course aimed at:
Secondary and EOI teachers who want to look at some of the issues involved in teaching language to teenagers, in the areas of English grammar, discourse and lexis.
The course will be taught entirely in English.
Objectives
- To improve teachers language analysis with practical applications to the classroom
- To help teachers to share experiences and learn about up to date methodologies through group work – to be applied in the classroom
- To explore ways for teachers to help students' communicative competence
Course details
- When: 9th—13th July 2012
- Where: International House Barcelona, Trafalgar 14, 08010 Barcelona
- Timetable: 09.00—14.00 plus personal study time
- Duration: 30 hours
- Places available: 15
Part 1
During the course major language areas will be discussed with reference to both published teaching materials and authentic English. Particular reference will be made to common problems encountered by Catalan & Castilian speaking students learning English in a secondary school environment.
Topics include:
- Time, Tense and Aspect
- Modality
- Mood: Indicative, Subjunctive and Imperative
- Voice: Active and Passive
- Discourse Analysis
- Syntax: word order, sentence structure
- Lexis and the grammar of lexis
- Course-book approaches to language analysis
- Common errors caused by first language interference
Part 2
This second part will look at ways to integrate the language items above through practical activity types aimed at developing linguistic and communicative competence in the classroom. Specific reference will be made to adapting and supplementing coursebook material.
Applying for this course
Note that applications to take these courses should be made directly to the Generalitat (see box, left).
