Materials

Trainees will be given Via Lingua handbooks for the following areas of the course:

• Teaching Skills and Classroom Management
• Language Awareness (including Grammar and Phonology)

These materials are the basis for the input sessions and will provide you with valuable reference resources.

Although the centre provides course handbooks and materials for the course you will need two large binders which should be organised as follows:

1. The Trainee File

This will contain:

1. Reports on each of the demonstration lessons you observe on the first two days of the course.
2. For each lesson you teach:
   • Copy of your lesson plan with observer's comments
   • Observer's evaluation form
   • Your reflection on your lesson
   • Peer observation report for your teaching partner
3. Reports on each of the unknown language lessons you participate in.
4. Your weekly self-assessment tasks.

The file is inspected, and forms the basis for the discussion, in the individual progress sessions each week.

2. Your own notes file

During input sessions you will receive numerous handouts and may want to take your own notes as well. We suggest dividing the file under the following headings :

• Timetable
• Classroom management
• Teaching skills
• Grammar
• Phonology

Recommended Reading

We recommend that you obtain the following books for study before the course:

Methodology
The Practice of English Language Teaching, Harmer, J. (Longman)

Grammar
One of the following:
Grammar for English Language Teachers: With Exercises and a Key, Parrott, M. (CUP)
Practical English Usage, Swan, M. (OUP)
English Grammar in Use, Murphy, R. (CUP)

The Harmer book is a useful general introduction, which you may like to read before the course. You will also have the opportunity to participate in a discussion of this in the pre-course email discussion group.
The others are reference books, and are not designed to be read from cover to cover, but will be a useful resource for you both during the course and in your subsequent teaching career.