This course, Teaching English at the Middle School Online Course, is designed to prepare student teachers to understand the systematic approaches to learning a foreign language and further be able to apply this mechanism in their teaching practice. This course will also focus on improving student teachers’ English proficiency levels, as part of the professional development and as a preparation for their future careers. This course includes subject-specific content knowledge, language competencies, teaching and learning strategies and assessment approaches. This course covers the following modules:

Module 1: Knowledge about language and language teaching

1.1 Techniques for teaching vocabulary

1.2 Techniques for teaching functional language

Module 2: Teaching receptive skills

2.1 Techniques for teaching reading skills

2.2 Techniques for teaching listening skills

Module 3: Teaching productive skills

3.1 Techniques for teaching speaking skills

3.2 Techniques for teaching writing skills

Module 4: Assessment Approaches

4.1 Types of assessment

4.2 Formative assessment 

4.3 Summative assessment

Key terms

exemplification, synonyms, antonyms, mime, drilling, controlled practice, freer practice, trap door, Bingo, Slap the board, functional language, chunk, collocation, role play, receptive skills, skimming, scanning, passive activity, dynamic activity, intercultural awareness, gallery walk, gist, dictogloss, choral drilling, contextualised language, controlled practice activities, free practice activities, personalised language, signpost, cloze activity, process writing, corrective feedback, feedback, formative assessment, monitoring, peer assessment, recasting, rubrics, self-assessment, summative assessment, cloze, comprehension questions, matching, multiple choice, rubrics, true/false

This course helps you  gain a deep understanding of how to effectively teach vocabulary, functional language, reading skills, listening skills, speaking skills and writing skills. Moreover, it will equip you with a variety of assessment techniques for different assessment purposes.

By the end of this module, you will be able to

• Explore how to teach vocabulary to teenagers
• Discuss the principles of teaching or presenting new vocabulary 
• Explain ways to elicit new vocabulary
• Recall the practical tips for recording and reviewing new vocabulary
• Explain the reasons for drilling or repeating new vocabulary
• Deepen the knowledge of checking understanding
• Identify controlled practice and free practice
• Discuss how to create resources to review and recycle vocabulary
• Explore practical example of consolidating vocabulary
• Discuss appropriate communicative ways of teaching vocabulary
• Develop techniques to teach functional language
• Provide examples of Middle School students’ use of functional language to deal with everyday situations
• Explore ways to teach functional language at middle school
• Understand the main teaching techniques for silent reading
• Explain how to skim
• Develop techniques to teach listening skills to promote intercultural awareness 
• Consider the different stages in listening activities
• Improve critical thinking about types of reading skills
• Find your own intercultural material
• Introduce the notion of intercultural awareness
• Develop techniques to teach reading skills to promote intercultural awareness
• Discuss how to do scanning
• Model a skimming exercise
• Explore skimming techniques
• Develop and implement techniques for enhancing speaking and writing skills in middle school students.
• Develop techniques to teach productive skills to promote intercultural awareness 
• Describe the types of classroom assessment in English language teaching 
• Develop techniques to test listening and reading skills
• Develop techniques to test speaking and writing skills