Seminar 1 - On being a teacher
Practical info - syllabus introduction, system of work, requirements
Introducing basic concepts, terms and abbreviations (L1, L2, L3; ESL x EFL; ELF; SLA, FLA, L1A, L2A; SLTE; EFL, TEFL, TESOL; applied linguistics)
The roles of the teacher
Teacher language
The concepts of the good language teacher, effective teacher, expert teacher, confident teacher
Literature for language teachers - teacher training manuals
Teaching and research - academic resources, journals

Seminar 2 - Introducing classroom observations
Classroom observations - types and purposes
Ways of recording and analysing observations
Observations and research, classroom research
Introducing micro teaching
Practical: observing and analysing a part of a video recording of an English lesson

Seminar 3 - On being a language learner
Learner roles
Learner variables - cognitive, affective, personality
Age in language learning
Teaching young and older teenagers (topics, attitude, motivation, discipline, cooperation)
Teaching adults

Seminar 4 - On language learning and acquisition
Empiricism and mentalism
Theories of learning and their impact on language learning theories and classroom practice
(behaviorist, cognitivist, constructivist, social cognitivist, social constructivist)
Overview of essential SLA theories and their implications on language teaching
The learning process - declarative & procedural knowledge, automatization, restructuring, instruction
Learner training
Practice: introducing basic language classroom techniques, classroom language

Seminars 5 & 6- Teaching pronunciation
Teaching segmental and suprasegmental phonetics - techniques and principles, activities
The intelligibility principle
The link between production and perception
Underhill’s muscular memory techniques (The Sound Foundations)
Using the IPA
Literature on and for teaching pronunciation
Pronunciation and the Common European Framework of Reference

Seminar 7 - The content of language learning, lesson plans
"What is there to learn?" - language forms, skills, functions
Competences - sociolinguistic, systemic and strategic
Needs analysis
Types of syllabi
Lesson plans - types, purposes, examples, mistakes, overplanning, adapting, the "Dogme" approach, planning ahead - planning the course, continuity
Managing multiple classes, keeping organized, keeping on top of the workload, aims and objectives

Seminar 8 - Classroom management
Classrooms, schools, companies & lessons
Using space/seating/classroom management
Active classroom techniques
Interaction - lockstep, pairwork, groupwork
Lesson - types of lesson, stages of the lesson, ways of varying the lesson

Seminar 9 - Vocabulary in language teaching
Overview of research on vocabulary acquisition, learning and teaching
Lexical minimum
Techniques for teaching, practising and recycling
Learning strategies for vocabulary
Learner dictionaries
English vocabulary profile
Lexical competence in the Common European Framework of Reference

Seminar 10 - From the history of LT & ELT
Approach, method and technique
Direct and indirect methods
Grammar-translation method, Direct method, Audio-lingual method
Humanistic approaches
Communicative language teaching and its offshoots
Task-based learning and teaching

Seminars 11 & 12 - Tools: textbooks
Textbooks as methodology
Typology of materials
ELT publishers
Teaching with textbooks
Textbook selection and adaptation
Materials development
Reviewing textbooks
Textbook research

Seminar 13 - Tools: technology
Blackboard
CALL
Interactive whiteboards
Internet
Applications
Tools for teachers
Corpora in language teaching