ECL755 - Professional Practice in Tesol Or Lote
Unit details
Enrolment modes: | (X) |
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Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Unit chair: | R Arber |
Incompatible with: | ECL716, ECL717, ECL718, ECL720, ECL721, ECL722, ECL737, ECL738, ECL754 |
Contact hours: | Introductory half day study day at the Melbourne Burwood Campus |
Note:Study day subject to demand. |
Content
This unit requires participants to undertake a teaching practicum in a second/foreign language classroom, and to reflect on their experience. It enables students to demonstrate their understandings of second language pedagogy gained in their study of this and other units in their course through undertaking a 22 day practicum in an appropriate TESOL or LOTE setting. This practicum meets the practical teaching requirements for qualifying as a specialist TESOL or LOTE teacher in Victoria.
Students without a teaching qualification accepted and assessed by the Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT) should contact both Dr Ruth Arber (course coordinator) and the unit chair. This is an "invitation only unit" for non-qualified students. MTESOL students CANNOT enrol in the unit Without permission.
Note: Participants who live outside the Melbourne metropolitan area should contact the unit chair or course coordinator to discuss how requirements can be met.
Assessment
Demonstrate competency in classroom TESOL teaching (satisfactory/not satisfactory);
demonstrate competence in the use of the target language (satisfactory/not satisfactory);
produce a professional teaching portfolio (3500 words equivalent, 60%); and
complete a report based on the practicum experience (2500 words, 40%).
Prescribed texts
Harmer, J 2001, The Practice of English Language Teaching, 3rd edn, Longman, Harlow, Essex.Unit Fee Information
Student Contribution Rate* | Student Contribution Rate** | Student Contribution Rate*** | Fee rate - Domestic Students | Fee rate - International students |
$706 | $565 | $565 | $1872 | $2394 |
* Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2010
** Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2009
*** Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2008
Please note: Unit fees listed do not apply to Deakin Prime students.