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Clayton
campus
Course code: 0156
Contact: Ms Marie-Therese Jensen (please telephone 9905 2819 or
9905 2784 for initial inquiries)
The
Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages is
a coursework degree designed primarily to meet the requirements of trained
teachers who wish to gain higher professional qualifications and expertise in
the field of teaching English to speakers of other languages.
Students who successfully complete the postgraduate certificate may proceed to
(a) the postgraduate diploma by completing one more subject and
(b) to a masters degree by completing a further four subjects. [See under
the course information in this handbook for the degree of Master of Education
(Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.)]
The objectives of the PostgradCertTESOL course are to provide students with:
Students will engage in learning experiences which should develop attitudes and values to enable them to:
Applicants
for the postgraduate certificate will usually hold a university degree or its
equivalent, be trained teachers and have preferably had relevant teaching
experience of at least two years.
Discretionary entrance is sometimes possible, eg three years of training
and a number of years of teaching experience in TESOL.
Applicants who are not native speakers of English will be required to
demonstrate substantial competence in written and spoken English before
admission.
Applicants
contemplating admission to this course may seek formal credit or recognition of
prior learning. Applicants should apply for credit prior to enrolment but
currently enrolled students may also apply. The Faculty of Education considers
each application on its merits within the context of the faculty guidelines on
credit transfer which are contained in a booklet Learning from
experience available from the Professional Development Institute, Faculty
of Education, Monash University, Gippsland campus, Churchill 3842 ($7
postage and packing).
Teachers who have taught ESOL for three years full-time or longer may document
twenty-two days of lessons in their own classrooms in lieu of undertaking an
externally supervised teaching practicum and GED3860F. Teachers who have gained
the Royal Society of Arts Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language
to Adults (RSACTEFLA) may gain an exemption of five days from the teaching
practicum.
The PostgradCertTESOL course consists of three semester-long subjects. These are:
For
professional accreditation, a fifteen-day teaching practicum must also be
completed during the period of enrolment in the course.
It should be noted that the subjects taught in the PostgradCertTESOL are
masters subjects and are assessed at that level. These subjects can also be
taken for the MEd(TESOL) and accredited as such. Candidates for the
PostgradCertTESOL who show satisfactory performance (credit level and above) in
both subjects may, at the discretion of the course coordinator, make
application to convert to candidature for the MEd(TESOL).
This course consists of one half year of full-time study and one half year of part-time study taken on campus or one and a half years of part-time study. Each subject will require attendance at a weekly seminar of three hours per week together with substantial reading and associated assignment work. The expected number of hours per week for a full-time student is forty-eight, not including the fifteen day teaching practicum.
Details
of all three subjects, including reading lists, follow the course information
in this handbook. These subjects may not be available in both semesters each
year.
Further information regarding this course may be obtained from the inquiry
office, Faculty of Education, Clayton campus (telephone 9905 2819 or
9905 2784) or visit our web site at http://www.education.monash.edu.au/
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