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English for Teaching Purposes

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  • Unit 1. Implications for lecturers switching to English as the classroom language
    • Analysing the critical issues (contextual, linguistic, motivational and methodological aspects). Level of English. Managing anxiety. Improve through re-thinking your teaching to improve it. Teachers’ discourse. Analysing real practice and choosing a particular class as a basis for later course work.
  • Unit 2. Functions related to delivering courses through English (1)
    • Functions related to discourse structure: beginning and ending a class, concluding. Functions related to clarifying concepts for the students: giving examples, classifying, comparing and contrasting, defining.
  • Unit 3. Functions related to delivering courses through English (2)
    • Functions related to information management: describing processes, expressing cause and effect, describing graphs, helping learners to manage new information. Functions related to evaluation: expressing certainty, presenting evidence, giving one’s opinions. Functions related to induction: giving instructions, motivating learners. Functions related to socialisation: handling classroom interactions and questions in the learning environment.
  • Unit 4. Recording your class
    • Recording the class sequence analysed throughout the course.