Overview
The course is ideal for language educators interested in critiquing their current teaching, whilst also adding to a toolbox of ideas, resources and strategies to apply in the 21st century classroom.
Features
On the Global Citizenship in Language Education (Online) course at Norwich Institute for Language Education you will develop your ability to facilitate rich, engaging dialogue with and between your students on a range of important social issues.
You will get hands-on experience in selecting, adapting and designing teaching materials that both foster criticality and draw connections between issues relevant to your local context and the wider world - empowering both you and your learners to become active, engaged global citizens.
Programme Structure
Topics include:
- Teaching competencies language educators need to develop in order to incorporate global citizenship into classroom practice
- Criticality and participatory approaches to teaching and learning
- Critiquing teaching and learning materials using a critical literacy framework
- Adapting teaching materials to give them a more global learning focus
- Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and the relationship between language and power
- Setting up and managing classroom conversations on more challenging topics
- Topics that are commonly excluded from published ELT course materials
- How different forms of artistic expression can be used to promote social justice and counter oppression
- Selecting cultural texts for use with our learners
- Identifying and critiquing some dominant narratives and practices of the wider ELT industry
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 2 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Language
English
Delivered
Online
Campus Location
- Norwich, United Kingdom
Disciplines
Teaching English as a Foreign Language View 38 other Short Courses in Teaching English as a Foreign Language in United KingdomWhat students do after studying
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- Experience: Language teaching professionals who want to develop their learners’ critical thinking skills and understanding of social justice issues, foster their own critical literacy and further integrate global citizenship into their materials and course design
- Language Level: B1/B2 or higher
Tuition Fees
Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.
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International Applies to you
Applies to youNon-residents545 GBP / full≈ 545 GBP / full -
Domestic Applies to you
Applies to youCitizens or residents545 GBP / full≈ 545 GBP / full
Funding
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