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March 2016 Page 7

Courtesy Tejvan Pettinger

ADDED EXTRAS Oxford’s summer methodology courses include meals in college dining halls and lectures by stars of the ELT world
Unis take teaching to a new level

Matt Salusbury surveys the options for overseas teachers who
want to study on summer methodology courses at UK universities

any UK university municative language teaching, open courses that feature meth- Russell Clark told the Gazette it
English language cen- the lexical approach and so on, odology, language learning previously ran summer teacher
Mtres now offer summer so the Centre had to ratchet up for young learners, teaching development courses for ‘staff
methodology courses for over- the content to ‘almost a PGCE grammar in context and pronun- from our partner universities in
seas teachers. We contacted level’ (the UK’s Post Graduate ciation for teachers. The classes the EU’ – Nicholas Copernicus
many of these centres, and nine Certificate of Education for state of twelve are ‘mainly European University in Poland and Cor-
replied that they currently do secondary school teachers). teachers’, the majority Polish doba University in Spain. These
or recently have offered such The University of Oxford’s or Spanish but with some from combined ELT methodology,
courses, while a few other uni- Department of Continuing South East Asia. They come to language development and cul-
versity departments responded Education has two ELT method- Edinburgh via its listing on the tural studies with funding ‘based
to say that they don’t. ology summer schools open to Erasmus+ database or ads in on sending Keele students to
Two centres already use the all. The Oxford Teachers’ Acad- English Teaching Professional these universities as part of their
EL Gazette to advertise their emy Summer School (OTA) or the Gazette. Study Abroad programme’.
methodology courses for Teflers, at Worcester College is run in The University of Liverpool’s However, changes to that pro-
and one other centre asked us to collaboration with Oxford Uni- English Language Centre has gramme meant that after five
tell them how Erasmus+ fund- versity Press. It includes options run bespoke courses since its years Keele had to discontinue
ing worked. What’s the focus such as mentoring, extensive foundation way back in 1987. these programmes.
of these courses, where do their reading and ELT management, Course length and content The University of Glasgow’s
participants come from, and how several of which are now avail- reflect client demand, and they School of Modern Languages has
do they find their way there? able online. Forthcoming OTA tend to be general methodology, in the past offered summer courses
The University of Brighton’s courses will include teaching teaching ESP or teaching EAP for EFL teachers with Clil and IT
Patrick Brook says his Language with technology and teaching and teaching academic subjects components. These ran for five
Institute runs closed courses of students with dyslexia and spe- through the medium of English, years ‘sponsored by the Spanish
four to twelve weeks for English cial educational needs. aimed at building the confidence ministry’ until the funding stopped,
school teachers from China and There’s also Oxford’s English of university lecturers. according to the School’s Carol
English lecturers sent by univer- Language Teachers’ Summer The University of Aberyst- MacDairmid. Glasgow has since
sities in Japan. While some of Seminar (ELTSS) at Exeter Col- wyth’s International English had approaches from Russian uni-
the Chinese intake are recruited lege, which has been running for Centre’s Rachael Davey says versities to offer similar courses. n
by UK-based agents, most come twenty years. Oxford courses it’s been running open general
to Brighton on government include meals in college dining ELT methodology and language
scholarships via the National halls and daily guest lectures development courses (currently
Basic Foreign Language Teach- by ELT stars – Adrian Under- for two weeks) for over fifteen
ing and Research Centre, which hill, Russell Stannard and Marie years, as well as closed groups
is based at the Beijing office of Delaney have featured so far. on demand. There are on aver- ELT Summer
the influential English Coaching OTA participants come mostly age around eleven participants
magazine. Brighton’s courses from Spain, Turkey and the US. on each open course. Students Schools 2016
focus on ‘methodology with lan- This year’s Summer Seminars arrive via agents or Aberyst-
guage’ – mostly methodology. are on topics such as English as wyth’s website.
De Montfort University’s a medium of instruction, assess- Leeds Beckett University has
(DMU) Centre for English Lan- ment and critical thinking. since 2010 run courses of two Oxford Teachers’ Academy English Language Teachers’
guage Learning in Leicester has Argentina, Brazil and Colombia to eight weeks in general ELT Summer School Summer Seminar
been running specialist summer are the top-three sending coun- methodology, Clil, bilingual
courses for closed groups includ- tries. There’s also a closed course education, British culture and 17 – 29 July 24 July – 5 August
ing EFL teachers, kick-started for thirty secondary school Eng- teaching. These are for closed Week 1 (Choose any one course) Week 1 (Choose any two workshops)
by a 2007 summer course for lish language teachers which groups – cohorts of between Raising the Bar: Challenging and Writing Classroom Materials; Exploring Grammar;
out-of-work nuclear scientists focuses on engaging learners and sixteen and forty teachers. They Inspiring Teenage Learners; The Creative Classroom; Integrating Pronunciation;
from former Soviet countries. teaching with technology. recruit most trainees via their Engaging, Challenging and Motivating the Unmotivated
DMU now runs a seven- They’re recruited via the website, or by responding to Motivating Young Learners
week course with an emphasis department’s website, English invitations to tender from UK Week 2 (Choose any two workshops)
on methodology for English in Britain, findcpd.com and ELT Trade and Investment or the Week 2 (Choose any one course) Teaching with Technology; Accessing the Full
Potential of your Students; English as a Medium
Engaging Teenage & Adult Learners
lecturers from Chinese univer- industry publications including British Council. Most partici- beyond the Classroom; 21st Century of Instruction; Contemporary English: Teaching a
sities – two groups of eighteen the Gazette. Some participants pants are currently from Panama Learning Skills for Primary Teachers Changing Language; Promoting Speaking Skills
trainees each – recruited via secure Erasmus+ funding. (from where enrolments are up),
agents and via the DMU’s Bei- Lindsay Knox of the Uni- Spain and Japan. www.conted.ox.ac.uk/X162-3 www.conted.ox.ac.uk/X162-2
jing office. When the first intake versity of Edinburgh’s English Keele University’s Language
arrived from China they were Language Teaching Centre told Learning Unit currently offers Fees: From £2,200 (including all tuition, guest lectures,
already at a surprisingly high us that since the late 1990s a Cert Tesol course in the sum- accommodation, meals and full social programme)
level. They knew all about com- they’ve been running two-week mer. Its programme director