Teacher Training: Teaching English for Academic Purposes

Course details

If you have ever wanted to help your students who want to get into university, you may have been frustrated with the lack of support offered in the way of teacher training. Making the transition from being a grad student in TESOL, or even from being an ESL/EFL teacher to teaching EAP can be daunting. This course seeks to fill that training gap, and will, hopefully, provide you with the knowledge you need to get started teaching EAP.

Please note that this course does not cover teaching composition or academic writing, as those areas would require their own course. The aim here is to give you a foundation from which you can build a course. Writing is mentioned briefly here, but you would do well to do some independent research on teaching second language writing. In addition, you are not given strategies for teaching academic reading in this course. The students in your EAP class will be doing plenty of extensive reading, and the way this EAP course is designed, they will improve their reading due to the sheer volume of assigned tasks. I would strongly recommend visiting http://eolf.univ-fcomte.fr/index.php?page=academic-reading-and-writing-exercises to learn more about academic reading and writing.

You can complete this course in about an hour, and can come back anytime. There are also supplements available for classroom use. Please post your questions and I'll be happy to answer them as they come up. Finally, if you are on LinkedIn, please connect with me (see promo video for this course), as I am always looking to expand my professional network.

"This lecture enforced my teaching and gave me a number of ideas."

--Angelia Mahfouz-Berryman Smith

FLS, Tennessee Technological University Campus