The Via Lingua Course Curriculum
Pedagogy-Language Awareness-Teaching Skills-Culture-Life Skills
The content of each of the five components can be described as follows:
Pedagogy Theory
- Teaching and learning a foreign language
- Language teaching methodologies
- The syllabus
- The effective teacher
- Classroom management skills
- Language teaching materials
- Lesson planning
- Teaching receptive skills
- Teaching productive skills (speaking)
- Teaching vocabulary
- Teaching pronunciation
- Teaching grammar
- Responding to mistakes and errors
- Language games
- The assessment of language learners
Language Awareness
- The purpose and nature of communication
- Word classes
- Verb types and verb forms
- The tense system
- The present simple tense and the present continuous tense
- The past simple tense, the past continuous tense, the past perfect tense (simple and continuous)
- The present perfect tense (simple and continuous)
- Expressing the future
- Conditional sentences
- The passive voice
- Gerunds and infinitives
- Modal auxiliary verbs
- Multi-word verbs
- Phonology
Teaching Skills
- Six hours of observing experienced teachers
- Eight hours of assessed teaching practice (*groups and or individual students)
- Sixteen hours of supported lesson preparation time
- Eight hours of post-lesson discussions
Cultural Awareness
- The cross-cultural dimension of language teaching
- The Group Project
Life Skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Communication skills
- Decision-making skills
- Organizational skills
- Financial awareness skills
- Employment awareness skills
- Legal awareness skills
- Personal welfare skills