This course consists of two major parts: in Weeks 1 to 6, you will examine and evaluate strategies of building a successful career and strategies of effective professional communication, self-presentation, collaboration, and teamwork, and this work will culminate in a content-focused seminar in Week 6. In Weeks 7 to 15, you will explore the structure of the English language and aspects of its research such as grammar, vocabulary, phonology, morphology, syntax, etymology, semantics, and sociolinguistics, as well as the relationship of language, culture, and communication.

The major learning objectives for the course are:
1. To develop and evaluate a resume;
2. To search for, identify and select relevant information/research evidence, and use relevant resources on a particular topic;
3. To analyze various aspects and structures of the English language.

There are other learning objectives as well, which complement the major ones.

As you move through the first part of the course, think about what have your strategies of career building and professional development been so far and how you think you could improve them. In the second part of the course, relate the aspects of research in the English language to your experience in learning and/or teaching English, and think about how your understanding of those aspects could benefit your professional practice.

This course is particularly relevant for you, if you aspire to teach English to speakers of other languages.

Here, you will learn about current ELT methods, lesson planning procedures, and principles of classroom management. Week 1 is dedicated to Second Language Acquisition as both a field and an object of scholarly inquiry, for you to understand some of the theoretical ideas about language learning, and how these ideas are related to and can be relevant for language pedagogy. Weeks 2 to 5 cover ELT methods, and you will assess their advantages and disadvantages. In Weeks 6 and 7, you will evaluate course books and other materials and approaches to using them; Weeks 8 and 9 are an opportunity for you to consider lesson aims and components, while in Week 10 you will learn how to explain the language material and link it to the lesson aims. In Weeks 10 to 14, you will examine teacher actions in class as well as ways of building rapport and managing learner behavior in the classroom, and will identify skills necessary for promoting and managing learner autonomy outside the classroom in Week 15.

The major learning objectives for the course are:
1. To identify features, advantages and disadvantages of ELT methods;
2. To adapt a coursebook activity;
3. To design a lesson plan;
4. To identify aspects of explaining language material and managing the classroom.

There are other learning objectives as well, which complement the major ones.

As you move through the course, think about whether and how any specific English language teaching method you will learn about can be related to the theoretical ideas and empirical evidence in language acquisition, and what language pedagogy can learn from research in first and second language acquisition. Also, think about what ELT methods, lesson planning and classroom management techniques you can apply in your professional practice where you are (country, institution) or in the context wherein you aspire to teach.

In this course, you will learn about some of the current issues in education, including language education, from the perspectives of diverse stakeholders. You will study and critically evaluate a number of issues and topics, and will be asked to write on two topics as part of your summative assessment for the course.

The major learning objectives for the course are:
1. To search for, identify and select relevant information/research evidence on a particular topic;
2. To critically evaluate ideas, concepts and issues;
3. To develop a point of view on a particular topic and support it with relevant information/research evidence;
4. To write discursively on a particular topic.

There are other learning objectives as well, which are more topic-specific.

As you move through the course, think about how the issues and topics discussed relate to the context (country, institution) where you have studied in a student before or work or aspire to work in as a professional.