Curriculum
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Undergraduate Diploma in TESOL Curriculum
The Online Undergraduate Diploma in TESOL is four 15-week courses taken in sequence, about 60 weeks in all. Each course asks around nine hours of study a week — 135 hours per course — and new courses begin on the first Monday of every month.
The Diploma is designed for language teachers, teachers in preparation and intending teachers. It offers a practical introduction to language teaching and links practice to theory and research, moving from a broad foundation in TESOL through methodology and assessment to the design and evaluation of teaching materials. It is a non-credit program, completed entirely online.
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Each course runs 15 weeks at about nine hours a week, a 135-hour course, and new courses begin on the first Monday of each month. The Diploma is a non-credit program completed entirely online.
The Four Courses
All four are required and are taken in sequence. Open any course to read its full description.
Required Courses
The four courses that make up the Diploma, each 15 weeks long and each a 135-hour course.
This program is designed for language teachers, teachers in preparation or intending teachers. It offers a practical introduction to language teaching and links practice to theory and research. The program offers students the opportunity of developing a solid pedagogical foundation through instruction in the following areas: language teaching methodology, listening, speaking, reading, writing, pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, discourse, content-based instruction, using coursebooks, computer assisted language learning, learning styles and strategies, learner autonomy in the classroom, classroom-based assessment, and cross-cultural communication.
When someone teaches, they usually employ a range of activities in certain conditions that form an approach. When an approach has a theoretical background to it, it is a methodology. In this course, we look at different methodologies for TESOL, with an emphasis on the theory, principles, and procedures of the Communicative Method. However, in practice, most teachers employ a range of methodologies.
Assessment is an essential part of the teaching and learning process. Assessment not only identifies learners’ strengths and weaknesses, it also identifies strengths and weaknesses in teaching and learning materials. In this course, we explore how assessment can be used in a formative sense, to help evaluate learners’ performance, as well as in the summative sense, where assessments are used to determine the effectiveness of teaching and learning. In this course, we review the role of assessment and examine ways to ensure that assessment is fair and effectively and efficiently reflects both teaching and learning.
Materials development is concerned with all the resources available for helping the teaching and learning process. These resources include professionally printed products such as textbooks, activity books & teacher guides as well as CD-ROM, DVD, and online computer resources. Resources also include those materials created by teachers & students. In this course, we review various resource options, discuss their advantages & disadvantages, and outline ways in which teachers can both use and create effective and efficient materials to help in the teaching and learning process.
The same pattern runs through each of the four courses: 15 weeks at nine hours a week makes a 135-hour course, and four of them make the Diploma.
How the Program Works
How the Diploma is studied and completed.
New courses begin on the first Monday of each month, so a student can start within weeks rather than waiting for a term. Taking the four courses in sequence puts the Diploma at about 60 weeks.
The Undergraduate Diploma in TESOL is a non-credit program taught 100 per cent online. There is no residential attendance requirement, no thesis and no research portfolio.
An extension may be granted by the Dean. A fifteen-week extension carries an additional fee of $200 per course.
