Location

Community Services & Continuing Education - Alexandria

Objectives

• • Develop learners’ writing in terms of text organization and cohesion• Enhance speaking in class through a wide range of activities and real life tasks • Develop learners' listening abilities through a variety of exercise types• Plan lessons more effectively• Exploit audio and video materials to generate speaking• Enhance teachers’ skills in classroom management • Involve learners in the learning process• Create a healthy teaching/learning environment with zero lecturing• Encourage a communicative approach to language teaching/learning

Outcomes

By the end of the course, learners will be able to• Use appropriate methodologies and classroom management techniques• Use appropriate testing and assessment procedures• Use the language for communicative purposes• Use a variety of techniques/strategies in handling reading texts• Use pair and group work to enhance cooperative learning• Write appropriate tests including a variety of question types• Adopt and foster communicative practices

Course Contents

Workshops covering the most important issues related to language teaching and learning, some of which are the following:• Teaching reading, writing, listening and speaking• The communicative approach • Testing and assessment: assessing learners’ written and oral performance • Working in groups• Group work task design• Classroom management• Skill integration• Effective use of audio/video materials• Critical thinking in the language class• Analytical and creative thinking• Designing Pair Work Tasks: The Information Gap• Group Work: Member Roles• Higher –Order Thinking Skills• Learner-Centered Classes• Learning Strategies • Lesson Planning• Problem Solving and Decision Making• Reflective Teaching• Task-Based Learning• Micro-teaching