The course will enable you to develop your English proficiency and improve your awareness of current methodology. This will involve reviewing the principles and practices of English language teaching and looking at recent developments in teaching methodology.
As a course participant, you will have the opportunity to share your experience of teaching, examining the relationship between language and methodology and reflecting on your practice.
" The trainers have provided us with new teaching approaches, great ideas, thoughts, materials. I have really enjoyed sharing teaching aspects with my partners and our trainers, which is really enriching. "
Monica, 2023
Is this course for you?
Teachers wishing to improve their understanding and command of contemporary written and spoken English and raise their awareness of how language and methodology interact in the teaching of English
30 June - 11 July
18 - 29 August
Registration fee: £150
Course fee: £1195
Homestay (half-board): £560
Residential (half-board): £672
Residential (self-catering): £560
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Course content
This course will extend your understanding and critical awareness of how English is used both inside and outside the classroom and the principles and practice of teaching English as a second or foreign language.
You will explore recent developments in methodology and the analysis of language for teaching and how to examine the relationship between language and methodology
" I’m taking away an incredible range of activities and reflections for my job and an incredible personal experience "
Participant - 2023
" I feel very well prepared and highly motivated to start a new school year "
Natasha - 2023
Timetable
This course consists of 50 hours of tuition, delivered between 09:00 and 15:30, Monday - Friday. You will also take part in cross-curricular workshops on a variety of topics, and each course includes a free evening and weekend programme of social and cultural activities and trips.
Further Information
Specific course content comes from feedback you and other participants give us through pre-course questionnaires, identifying your needs and priorities.
Time will be built into the course for reflection and for you to consider how to adapt ideas from the course to your classroom in your own professional contexts.
NILE offers various accommodation options, including homestay with carefully selected hosts and residential accommodation at the University of East Anglia. NILE’s dedicated student welfare team can be reached 24 hours a day.
All NILE courses involve a significant element of English language improvement and/or the development of language awareness.
Course Leader
Maria Heron has been working as a teacher, teacher trainer and materials writer for forty years. She has trained teachers in the UK, Argentina, Chile, Panama, Western Europe, Kazakhstan and Canada. She is a CELTA trainer and CELTA assessor, has set up a CELTA centre at ICBC in Santiago de Chile and has delivered CELTA courses in the UK and in different parts of the world. She regularly gives presentations at international conferences.
Maria completed her MA at NILE in collaborative partnership with the University of Chichester and she is on the advisory board of Folio. Her chief ELT interests are materials development and the role of affect in language learning.
Available dates:
| Course dates | Location | Course length | |
| 30 June - 11 July 2025 | Norwich | 2 weeks | |
| 18 August - 29 August 2025 | Norwich | 2 weeks |
