This course will guide you through key issues relating to the use of language corpora in teaching. It will go into detail about what a corpus is, how corpora are used, and how you can build and use a corpus to enhance your teaching and the experience of your learners.

This course will introduce you to the techniques and methods used in ESL language assessment and related issues in primary and secondary schools in the United States today. Included are standardized tests for the No Child Left Behind Act, and how to assess listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Welcome to the Thomson ELT Advantage course An Introduction to Task-based Teaching by David Nunan. This course will introduce you to this important approach to language teaching. It will look at task-based language teaching and study what it is, how it developed and how it fits into a broader curriculum framework. Most importantly, this course will focus on how task-based language teaching works in the classroom. This course is meant to be practical and will provide many examples of task-based language teaching that you can use with your own class.

In this course you will learn about teaching English as a foreign or second language to children between the ages of three and 12 years old. You will consider how young learners develop cognitively, how they learn languages, and how your understanding of these two areas can help guide you in your role as a teacher of young learners and a teacher of language.

English language teachers enjoy a wide range of opportunities and face a daunting set of challenges. You teach more than a subject—you're teaching skills that will open up the entire world to your students! This course will show you innovative ways of teaching vocabulary and grammar, listening and speaking, and reading and writing. But more than that, it will give you a deeper understanding of who your students are and who you are as a teacher. So join us on this journey of becoming a more reflective and effective English language teacher!

This course examines the important role that assessment plays in both the teaching and learning of a second or foreign language. Specifically, it deals with assessing the language skills of non-native English-speaking adults and puts particular emphasis on classroom assessment.

This course provides teachers with the principles of communicative teaching and offers useful methods for making students active participants in the learning process. Practical and fun activities give students the opportunity improve their language skills through drawing, songs, oral presentations, and more.

This course will provide you with an understanding of the main characteristics and types of content-based instruction. With the help of original activities, it will provide a useful framework for designing your own content-based courses and lessons.

This course will cover a number of issues involved in helping learners to develop their listening comprehension of English as a second or foreign language. With the help of examples, exercises, and a full lesson template, students will examine a number of traditional and more recent approaches to teaching foreign language listening.

This course will explore technologies that support language development as well as academic achievement for K-12 English language learners. Much of the course will focus on technologies that support English language development and communication skills, but we'll also look at how other technologies can be used in targeted ways to promote English language development.

This course focuses on modern dictionaries for learners of English. The goal is to equip you with the knowledge and practical expertise that you will need to help your students make the most of this important reference and learning tool.

This course focuses on modern dictionaries for learners of English. The goal is to equip you with the knowledge and practical expertise that you will need to help your students make the most of this important reference and learning tool.

Learn ESL teaching strategies that will set your adult ESL/EFL students up for success! Over the next six weeks, you'll discover ways to teach ESL that create a meaningful and positive learning environment for your students. You'll get to know what motivates them and how you can tailor your ESL teaching methods to their needs. You'll also explore a wealth of activities you can use to help your students become more confident listeners, speakers, readers, and writers of English. By the end of this course, you'll be teaching ESL in a way that helps your students move skillfully from the classroom to the real world!

Welcome to the Thomson ELT Advantage course Pursuing Professional Development by Andy Curtis. This course will discuss what professional development is and why it is important for all teachers. It will give practical advice on how busy teachers can incorporate professional development practices into daily classroom life.

Did you realize that reading is one of the most important skills you can teach? It's truly at the core of the other language skills—listening, speaking, writing, and grammar. In this course, you'll learn how to show your students the value of reading and really motivate them to become strong readers. You'll also get to explore the ins and outs of intensive reading, extensive reading, reading comprehension, reading rate, and much more. The skill of reading not only gives your students what they need to be successful learners, but it also makes them more self-confident and eager to learn their whole life long.

This course will introduce you to the main methods used in exam preparation. It will guide you through the reading, writing, speaking and listening papers of the FCE exam. The course includes videos of real life class demonstrations to show new teaching techniques and lesson planning ideas.

*TESOL Certificate not available for this course.

Welcome to the Thomson ELT Advantage course Teaching Lexically by Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley. This practical course aims to change the way you think about language by looking at the relationship between grammar and vocabulary in a new light. It will suggest innovative ways to teach language and skills, to deal with speaking in class and to handle student correction.