Diploma in English Language Teaching

A compulsory orientation seminar that introduces the programme, its expectations and the academic habits students will rely on across both semesters.

Integrates theory and practice in teaching reading, writing, listening and speaking, and encourages students to reflect on their own teaching. The course identifies the different text types found in each skill and shows how to create language-targeted classroom activities.

The essential elements of public speaking: building confidence, analysing an audience, preparing an effective presentation and delivering a speech. Students practise structuring talks, giving peer feedback and preparing slides, handouts and notes that hold a listener's attention.

An introduction to the phonetics and phonology of human language, especially English. Starting with articulatory phonetics and how sounds are produced in the English sound system, the course covers phonemes and symbols, syllables, stress, intonation and aspects of connected speech.

How to write in a suitably academic manner. Students practise the elements of the writing process and design effective models such as a CV, report, literature review, case study and survey, learning to analyse text types critically and apply the conventions of style, referencing and format.

How to construct an effective research proposal that serves as the launching point for a paper, and how to write research reports and papers at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Students learn how research is conducted and gain skills in research design and information consumption.

What linguistics is and how it studies language. Students become familiar with language and its systems and basic units (phoneme, morpheme, seme, lexis), analyse language at the levels of phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics, and draw out the implications for teaching and learning a second language.

Teaching grammar, vocabulary, discourse and pronunciation. The course covers contextual grammar teaching, vocabulary learning goals and testing, analysing lexical and organisational features of language in different contexts, and the importance of correct pronunciation in communication.

Learning theories and their relationship with the technological resources and tools useful for English language learning and teaching, and how to choose and evaluate technology-based materials and tools for the classroom.

Runs alongside Research Methodology to support the final research paper. Introduces ethical AI use and its implications for academic writing and knowledge production, with hands-on sessions on how AI tools can support literature summaries, idea generation and outlining without replacing rigorous, locally grounded research.

The capstone of the diploma. Students conduct an independent or collaborative research project on practical issues, classroom strategies or innovative approaches in English language teaching, and present a rigorous academic paper under guided mentorship.