Location

Community Services & Continuing Education - Alexandria

Objectives

• • Developing reading skills• Developing listening abilities through a variety of exercise types• Developing writing in terms of text organization and cohesion• Enhancing speaking through a wide range of activities and real life tasks • Understanding potential barriers to reading and listening• Understanding features of reading, listening, speaking and writing• Focusing on skills rather than systems • Helping learners acquire language skills• Familiarizing teachers with skill integration principles• Enhancing teachers’ abilities to integrate skills in materials lacking integration

Outcomes

By the end of this course , participants will be able to :• Use a variety of techniques/strategies in handling reading texts.• Focus more in their teaching on language skills and language functions. • Exploit audio and video materials to generate speaking.• Exploit reading and listening texts for a purpose.• Help learners use different techniques to decode meaning.• Produce tasks and activities in existing materials lacking integration.

Course Contents

Reading• Reading Task Types• Key Reading Skills• Reading Strategies & Activities• Bottom-up & Top-down Approaches• Methodologies for Teaching Reading • Critical Reading• Text SelectionWriting• Product/Process Writing• Text Types• Paragraph Development• Writing Task Types• Writing from Graphic Data• Cohesive LinksListening• Characteristics of a Good ELT Listening Text• Authentic Listening ActivitiesSpeaking• Communicative Tasks• Pair Work Tasks: Information Gap• Group Work Tasks• Language games• Critical Thinking Tasks and Activities • Advantages of Skill Integration• Features of Skill Integration• Skill Integration Task