The course will enable you to improve your language ability and acquire practical strategies to improve your English independently. You will develop your classroom management techniques, such as giving instructions and eliciting, and you will be able to identify relevant principles in designing materials, including language development resources. You will also develop your own use of English to help your students maximise the amount of English they use in their classroom.
" Plenty of activities, games, vocabulary and effective feedback. Excellent materials to reinforce learning, and effective feedback to build meaningful learning. "
Eduardo - 2023
Is this course for you?
The course focuses on the language needed to be able to run classes effectively and efficiently
30 June - 11 July
4 - 15 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 enable you to identify strengths and weaknesses in your own language ability, equip you with strategies for effectively improving your language ability independently once you return to your classroom and orient you to online language development resources.
" The teachers are incredibly well trained and updated, they have lots of teaching and life experiences which helps a lot to make the best in class. You learn a lot of things in just one hour! "
Rebeca - 2023
" The quality of the course has been more than evident and I have honestly enjoyed every minute of it. The tutors have provided us with a lot of new ideas in methodology, textual intervention, uses of English, curiosities about the language, cultural aspects.. "
Participant - 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
Susi Pearson has been involved in teaching and teacher training in ELT for over 20 years, working for extended periods in Portugal, Brazil and Poland. She is CELTA and DELTA qualified and holds an MA in Professional Development for Language Education.
She is now based in Norwich where she is the NILE Online Academic Manager, leading on and coordinating all academic aspects of NILE Online courses, as well as tutoring on some courses. She is also a Senior Trainer at NILE, coordinating and working on Language Development and Methodology courses, including CELTA & DELTA. Her particular interests are developing effective ELT materials, how to keep learners motivated and teaching phonology.
Available dates:
| Course dates | Location | Course length | |
| 30 June - 11 July 2025 | Norwich | 2 weeks | |
| 4 August - 15 August 2025 | Norwich | 2 weeks |
