UTS course code: C07091
Testamur title: Graduate Diploma in Languages Teaching
Abbreviation: GradDipLangTeach
Course Coordinator: Liam Morgan
Course fee: HECS (local); $8,500 per semester (international)
Total credit points: 54

Overview
Course aims
Admission requirements
Attendance
Course duration
Course structure
Course program
Assessment
Articulation and progression
Other information

Overview

This course is an initial teacher training qualification for people who have an undergraduate degree and want to teach languages other than English in secondary schools in Australia. The course is both comprehensive and practical and constitutes a recognised teaching qualification. The course is tailored to the needs of participants who as yet have no teaching experience, as well as to the needs of participants who have experience, but do not have a recognised initial teaching qualification.

Course aims

The course aims to:

• enable you to achieve or consolidate specialist, professional competence as practitioners in teaching and programming for spoken and written languages
• provide you with the relevant theoretical underpinning for this professional competence in a variety of contexts, and the ability to reflect critically on it, and
• develop your understanding of the linguistic demands of teaching and learning, and of issues in language development.

Admission requirements

Participants are assessed at an interview and are expected to have appropriate levels of proficiency in English. Entry requirements are:

• an undergraduate degree or equivalent (essential)
• international students whose first language is not English need an overall score of 6.0 in the IELTS with a minimum of 6.0 in the writing component
• proficiency in a language other than English equivalent to two years post-elementary tertiary study.

Attendance

Full-time attendance is 15 hours per week for lectures and five hours per week for designated school attachment days. There is a 45-day professional experience program which involves full-time attendance in schools.

Part-time attendance is based on a program worked out in conjunction with the course coordinator. Participants who wish to attend part time should be prepared to allocate time for school attachment days and the 45-day professional experience program.

Course duration

The Graduate Diploma in Languages Teaching is normally completed in one year of full-time study, or two years of part-time study.

Course structure

The Graduate Diploma comprises 54 credit points of study.

Course program

Typical full-time program

Typical part-time program

Spring semester
015158 Language Development¹ 6cp
015164 Technology-enhanced Language Learning 6cp
015394 Meeting Special Needs in the Secondary School 3cp

Spring semester
015253 Professional Experience 2: Teaching and Learning in Context 6cp
011122 Programming, Assessment and Evaluation (Schools)¹ 6cp

Footnote:
1. This subject is also offered in distance mode. A non-refundable administration fee applies to all subjects where students choose distance mode (to apply from 2004). This fee is $50 per distance subject (pending final UTS approval).

Assessment

Assessment tasks for subjects in this course may include essays, journals, units of work as well as take-home or in-class examinations.

Assessment is criterion-referenced. This means assignments are assessed on whether they meet certain criteria. Most subjects are graded according to the range of grades adopted by the University, others are assessed on a Pass/Fail basis.

Articulation and progression

The Graduate Diploma in Languages Teaching articulates into the Master of Arts in TESOL (C04180); Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics (C04182) and Master of Arts in Language and Literacy (C04181). On completion of the Graduate Diploma in Languages Teaching you may be eligible for a maximum of 18 credit points advanced standing towards one of these Master's degrees.

Other information

For further information about this course, contact:

telephone (02) 9514 3900
email education@uts.edu.au