Postgraduate Module Descriptor

EFPM280: Developing Practical Knowledge for TESOL Teaching

This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.

Module Aims

To provide students with a thorough understanding of the relationship between theoretical perspectives and different TESOL classroom practices.
To provide an introduction to key concepts associated with the practice of foreign or second language teaching.
To familiarize students with the core competencies associated with successful practice in TESOL classrooms from both a theoretical and practical perspective.
To develop students’ capacity to successfully apply conceptual and practical knowledge about foreign or second language practice to the realities of their own current and/or future teaching contexts.
To develop students’ capacity to reflect critically on their own teaching as well as their peers’.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)
This module's assessment will evaluate your achievement of the ILOs listed here - you will see reference to these ILO numbers in the details of the assessment for this module.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to:
Module-Specific Skills	1. Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the key aspects of classroom practice including the organisation of activities, classroom management, and classroom interaction; 2. Demonstrate a critical application of these skills and knowledge in the preparation and teaching of a language class; 3. Demonstrate the ability to successfully apply conceptual and practical knowledge and skills to teaching activities in the TESOL classroom in a rigorous and systematic way; 4. Reflect critically upon observed teaching and microteaching in relation to key principles covered in the module;
Discipline-Specific Skills	5. Demonstrate the knowledge, understanding and skills for students required in order to analyse TESOL policy, theory and practice; 6. Demonstrate the ability to analyse data for teaching purposes; 7. Evaluate complex TESOL issues drawing on national and international perspectives; 8. To provide students with knowledge and skills needed to apply theory to practice in TESOL;
Personal and Key Skills	9. Engage in independent study and group/pair work, including the microteaching and evaluation of peers' teaching and their own; 10. Digest, select and organise material to produce, to a deadline, a coherent, thoughtful and creative analysis of theory to particular professional and socio-cultural situations; 11. Undertake a critical analysis of the teaching skills, knowledge and techniques developed in the module through personal reflection.

How this Module is Assessed

In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.

Formative Assessment

A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.

Form of assessment	Size of the assessment (eg length / duration)	ILOs assessed	Feedback method
Microteaching	30 minutes for each group of 4-5 students	1-7	Verbal comment and review from tutors and fellow students

Summative Assessment

A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.

Coursework	Written exams	Practical exams
100	0	0

...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.

Form of assessment	% of credit	Size of the assessment (eg length / duration)	ILOs assessed	Feedback method
A Portfolio which includes details of the microteaching experiences and the observed classes. Students also reflect on themes that have emerged from these experiences and critically comment on them in relation to the module contents and their own contexts.	100	7,000 words	1-11	Written summative feedback

Re-assessment

Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.

Original form of assessment	Form of re-assessment	ILOs re-assessed	Timescale for re-assessment
Portfolio	Portfolio resubmission	1-11	6 weeks