Graduate Certificate in Education Studies (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
This postgraduate course has been crafted to help build expertise in a subject area while developing critical thinking skills that are valued and transferable across a range of workplaces. Your specialist area options include TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages).
EDLA488
In this unit, you will examine specific knowledge about the English language, including contexts of English language use, text structure, and cohesion, grammar and vocabulary, pronunciation, spelling, and punctuation.
You will learn how to teach explicit knowledge about language in the EAL/D classroom; learning and teaching language skills (listening, speaking, reading/viewing, writing/composing); and EAL/D program planning, design and evaluation.
This unit contains a 60-hour professional experience component of EDLA488 and meets the requirements placed by Australian accreditation authorities on specialist TESOL awards.
To fulfill the requirements of the professional experience component of EDLA488, the following four conditions must be met:
- 60-hour professional experience placement in an institution that delivers recognised educational programs in English as an additional language (EAL), or equivalent
- The placement is completed in a continuous ten (10) day block
- A class made up of no less than seven (7) students learning English as an additional language
- A minimum grade of Satisfactory is achieved.
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Please note that the professional experience component of this unit does not meet the professional experience requirements for registration as a teacher in Australia. In order to be registered as a teacher in Australia, you must enroll in a teacher education course at an Australian university, such as a Bachelor of Education or a Master of Teaching. A successful placement does, however, enable you to add the TESOL – EAL/D curriculum area to existing teaching qualifications.
