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EDSE4512: TESOL Professional Experience

2025 unit information

This unit of study will link fieldwork in Intensive English Centres or secondary school with an exploration of current language education research. Students will develop skills in linking their assessment of the abilities and needs of teenage and adult learners of English with programming. This unit aims to develop students' professional understanding and expertise as second language educators. It has relevance for teaching in Australia and overseas and focuses on the development of communicative competence.

Unit details and rules

Managing faculty or University school:

Arts and Social Sciences

Study level Undergraduate
Academic unit Education
Credit points 2
Prerequisites:
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210 credit points including 24 credit points from one of (English, Linguistics or one of the foreign languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Modern Greek, Sanskrit, Spanish))
Corequisites:
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None
Prohibitions:
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EDGU2000 or EDGU3000 or EDGU4000 or EDSE3043
Assumed knowledge:
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None

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. demonstrate a graduate level of all national professional standards for teachers
  • LO2. demonstrate the fulfillment of the university’s requirements for the professional experience, including adequately documenting their planning for teaching using either written lesson plans or a day book, as prescribed by the faculty, and attending all the prescribed days for the internship placement for the full school day (unless faculty approval has been obtained for any other variation).

Unit availability

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Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 2 2024
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 2 2025
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
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Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Intensive August 2020
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2021
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2022
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2023
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney

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