Best Methods in Teaching Speaking Skills

Learn the best methods for getting ESL and EFL students to speak English and tasks that encourage meaningful interaction in this TEFL certificate course.

This class will address types and idiosyncrasies of the spoken language, and micro skills of speaking that are factors in the oral code.

Review current issues in teaching oral communication by analyzing:

• conversational discourse

• pronunciation

• affective factors

This course will suggest fluency and accuracy activities that can be used in and out of the classroom.

Learn factors that hamper improved speaking skills for ESL and ESL learners including:

• specific contexts

• performable variables

• colloquial language

• pronunciation factors

• interaction

Note: A strong command of English is a prerequisite for this course. (iBT TOEFL:80, TOEIC:760) 

This is a required course for the Professional Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) certificate program.

Course Number: LING-40050
Credit: 3.00 unit(s)
Related Certificate Programs: Teaching English as a Foreign Language

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7/1/2020 - 8/28/2020

$395

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• SECTION ID:

  149914

• CLASS TYPE:

  Online, Web-based instruction

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  Quinn, Jessica, ESL instructor since 2008

  Jessica Quinn has been an ESL instructor for the English Language Institute (ELI) at UC San Diego Extension since June 2011. She attended UCLA and San Diego State University, where she earned a master's in applied linguistics, before beginning her career teaching at several community colleges and intensive English programs in the San Diego area. She has taught ESL in California and abroad at all levels and in all skill areas, including reading, writing, listening and speaking as well as grammar, vocabulary and test preparation. In addition to her experience teaching ESL, Quinn has worked with native and non-native English-speaking children in both professional and volunteer capacities. She has created curricula for classroom use, book club materials, and tutor-training gu...Read More

• TEXTBOOKS:

  REQUIRED

  How to Teach Speaking 1st
  by Scott Thornbury
  ISBN / ASIN: 0582853591

  You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.

• POLICIES:

  No refunds after: 7/7/2020.
  Early Enrollment Discount: $370 ($395 if enrolled after 6/15/2020).
  

• NOTE:

• DATE & LOCATION:

  7/1/2020 - 8/28/2020
  extensioncanvas.ucsd.edu
  You will have access to your course materials on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.