C07091v4 Graduate Diploma in Languages Teaching

Overview

This course is an initial teacher training qualification for people who have an undergraduate degree and want to teach languages other than English (such as Japanese, Chinese, German, French, Italian) in secondary schools or language colleges in Australia. Students study language teaching methodology, teaching and learning, psychology of secondary students, teaching for special needs, programming and assessment, and participate in up to 45 days of professional experience teaching in schools.

The course is both comprehensive and practical and constitutes a recognised teaching qualification. It 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

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

Career options

Career options include employment as a language teacher in high schools, TAFE colleges, adult and community education, and language colleges.

Additional 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)
• for international students whose first language is not English: an overall score of 6.0 in the IELTS with a minimum of 6.0 in the writing component, and
• proficiency in a language other than English equivalent to two years of post-elementary tertiary study.

Course duration and attendance

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

Full-time attendance is 15 hours per week for lectures and five hours per week for designated school attachment days.

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 structure

The Graduate Diploma totals 54 credit points of study, made up of 10 compulsory subjects.

Course completion requirements

Course program

Example programs are given below for students attending on a full-time or part-time basis.

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