Course code: 0156
Contact: Ms Marie-Thérèse Jensen
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 three more subjects and (b) to a masters degree by completing a further three 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:
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.
The GradCertTESOL course consists of two semester-long subjects. These are:
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 taken on campus or one year 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 twenty-two day teaching practicum.
Details of both subjects, including reading lists, follow the course information in this handbook.
Further information regarding this course may be obtained from the inquiry office, Faculty of Education, Clayton campus (telephone 9905 2899 or 9905 2784).