- Iveta Vrábelová -
CLIL Course Participant July 2023

“✅If you work as a teacher of a foreign language or any other subject and still have doubts about your communication skills that are holding you back, a course at Linguaviva will surely unblock you 🤗. I am a fresh graduate of the 2 week CLIL & Communication skills teacher's training course and the course exceeded all my expectations. The tutors were very helpful especially in areas related to practice and teaching itself. They really engaged with us in an above and beyond manner.
Huge thanks must go to the whole team that created an incredibly friendly atmosphere - but especially our lead tutor and Head of School, Ian Brangan. I would certainly encourage all teachers not to be afraid to leave their comfort zone and try one of the courses on offer. Linguaviva was a great choice 💯.”

Communicate to Educate

This popular course, for Secondary School Teachers across Europe, focuses on Communicative Language Teaching and on exploiting language in content-focused classes at all three CEFR levels. It is for teachers who wish to deliver some or all classroom content through English and make their language classes as communicative as possible. In the mornings, teachers experience a mix of English Language and Culture; afternoon sessions cover CLIL and how to maximise communication in language teaching. To keep the course practical, participants bring access to samples of their own materials as we show how to design, deliver, and develop English-language resources with a strongly communicative focus. Teachers benefit from sharing insights with like-minded professionals from around Europe and, as the course progresses, develop a digital portfolio of ideas and class materials to use in the new school year.

Course Outcomes

Increased personal confidence in Communicative Language Teaching

  • Greater understanding of Students’ Needs

  • Increased awareness of technology & the internet as resources

  • Increased awareness of the possibilities of exploiting texts

  • Creation of a Reflective Journal of Materials

  • Sharing of teaching experience

Included in the Course

12 hours of General English plus 13 hours of Teacher Training classes per week
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Use of digital materials
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Dublin walking tour and a traditional pub night
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completion Certificate

Modules:

  • CLIL in Contemporary Education

  • Communicative Language Learning

  • Teaching Through Storytelling

  • Teaching Reading Communicatively

  • Teaching through Longer Language Tasks

  • Teaching Speaking Communicatively

  • Teaching Pronunciation

  • Teaching Writing Communicatively

  • Teaching Listening Communicatively

  • Teaching Through Projects

  • Assessment in CLIL

  • Educational Systems around the World

  • Using the web as a Teaching Resource

  • Teaching through Literature

  • Teaching through Film

  • Using TED Talks in the Classroom

  • Teaching with SMART TVs

  • Preparing CLIL Classes

  • English & its varieties

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