This course is addressed to
UB lecturers who are non-native speakers of English and would like to start teaching or giving some lectures in English or improving the way they have been using their English in class so far.
The course includes some revision of grammar and presentation of the structures most commonly used when delivering lectures and managing classrooms but it is not sufficient to acquire the skills and proficiency needed to fully teach in English.
Only UB teaching staff are allowed to join the course (research assistants and staff are excluded).
Aims
- To raise participants' awareness of their strengths and weaknesses in English for the purpose of improving their ability to give lectures.
- To analyse and practise oral discourse techniques.
- To improve one’s intonation and pronunciation.
- To be able to develop activities that integrate content and language learning and enhance collaborative and autonomous learning.
Course content and assessment
Content will be divided into the following modules:
- Classroom language.
- Communication strategies
- Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach
- Teaching a class: pronunciation, fluency and intonation of delivery; discourse markers and signalling devices for organization of lecture, emphasis, topic change; vocabulary expansion and grammatical accuracy.
- English for Specific Purposes
Participants will be required to design a content lesson in English based on CLIL methodology and present it to the rest of the class.
The course will involve initial observation of one of the participants’ presentations in English, followed by coaching sessions on various aspects of discourse depending on the needs of the lecturers involved.
Course methodology and approach
The methodological approach will be communicative and student-centered, which means that the participants will play an active role in the course.
Class sessions will consist of lectures by the teacher, group and class discussion and experimental practice by the students.
The materials used will be of general interest to all the students in the group but closely related to the field of the participants in the course.
Special emphasis will be placed on oral performance skills, pronunciation, intonation and rhetoric.
Please be reminded that this is not a general language course.
General information
Teachers: Aaron Feder, Núria Giralt, Sean Murphy, Cristina Palomeque i Vanesa Toquero
Duration: 30 hours
Number of students: 20
Schedule: June - July
- Campus Diagonal Nord (Cristina Palomeque)
Monday & Wednesday, 16 - 19 h
From 2nd of June to 5th of July
Location: Lecture room 9B, Facultat d’Economia i Empresa
- Campus Diagonal Sud (Núria Giralt i Vanesa Toquero)
Wednesday & Friday, 10 - 13 h
From 9th of June to 14th of July
Location: Lecture room S2, Facultat de Geologia
- Campus Plaça Universitat (Aaron Feder)
Tuesday & Thursday, 17 - 20 h
From 1st of June to 6th of July
Location: Lecture room 2.5, Facultat de Filologia
- Campus Plaça Universitat (Sean Murphy)
Monday & Wednesday, 16 - 19 h
From 14th of June to 14th of July
Location: Lecture room 4.2, Facultat de Filologia
Recommendation: Teaching staff belonging to the “Ciències de la Salut” area should apply for this group.
- Campus Mundet (Vanesa Toquero)
Tuesday & Thursday, 12 - 15 h
From 10th of June to 15th of July
Location: Lecture room 140, Departament Didàctica de la Llengua i Literatura.
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Standard required and level tests
Participants are advised to have at least:
- First Certificate in English (FCE)
- 5th course of the Escola Oficial d'Idiomes (EOI)
- 5th course of the Escola d'Idiomes Moderns (EIM)
- Advanced A course of the Meritschool (UPC)
- Upper-intermediate 3 of the Institut d’Estudis Nord-Americans (IEN)
- Any other equivalent certificate
Who is exempt from taking the level test?
- Those who can prove the level mentioned above with a certificate not prior to year 2006-2007.
- Those who can prove having taken a long stay abroad (at least one-year long) in the last three years in a university where English is used for daily communication.
- Those who can prove having defended their doctoral dissertation in English.
Those who can prove any of the conditions mentioned above will have to send a copy of a proof document via fax (93 402 10 16) or e-mail (iceformub@ub.edu) before May, 21 (Friday).
Those who cannot prove this level will have to take an entry level test before starting the course, this will consist of a writing test (45 minutes) and an oral interview (5 minutes).
Several dates and shifts for the level tests are scheduled. Those who cannot prove their level with any proof document will have to sign up for one of these level tests.
Each person can sign up for only one level test.
It will be possible to choose any of the shifts as long as there are vacancies.
Since the groups in Campus Diagonal Nord (Cristina Palomeque) and Plaça Universitat (Aaron Feder) start the first week of June, those interested in registering in any of these groups will have to take their level tests either May 21 or May 26.
Preregistered participants will be contacted via e-mail so as to arrange the time and location of the level test (within the time slots and campus already established).
Dates of level tests:
Friday, 21st of May
- 13.00 – 14.15 h: Campus Diagonal
- 15.00 – 18.00 h: Campus Diagonal
- 16.00 – 19.00 h: Pl. Universitat
Wednesday, 26th of May
- 17.00 – 20.00 h: Pl. Universitat
Thursday, 27th of May
- 12.00 – 14.00 h: Pl. Universitat
Friday, 28th of May
- 10.00 – 12.00 h: Pl. Universitat
- 13.00 – 14.15 h: Campus Mundet
Course preregistration:
:: Preregistration Closed ::
Preregistration is compulsory for all the teaching staff interested in joining a group.
Pre-registration is allowed to only one group.
End of pre-registration period: May 21 (Friday).
Places will be confirmed after level-test evaluation.