ELT
Concourse: initial
plus teacher training index
Guides and materials linked from this page are intended for
people with little or no English language teaching experience
although more experienced teachers may find them useful revision.
The index and this section refers to initial plus
because the material is intended for people who have yet to take a
training course who or have recently done so and need a little help
right now or when they are preparing to take further qualifications
at some time.
There is set of guides specifically aimed at people taking a
Cambridge Assessment English CELTA course, linked below.
The initial plus training topics
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background and methodology |
language functions |
language skills |
learn
to transcribe |
sentences and clauses |
teaching
and materials |
terminology and
references |
verbs and tenses |
words and vocabulary |
a list of lists |
sentence
grammar essentials |
pronunciation |
essential guides |
a short language analysis course |
index of courses on this site |
glossaries on this site |
Other links: |
the teacher training index |
a basic
training course |
the free TKT course |
the CELTA section |
in-service
training |
the Delta
section |
teacher
development |
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a little more detail:
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background and methodology |
guides to some basic theory
and teaching background |
essential
guides |
these are guides to a basic
understanding of a number of language and skills
areas |
language functions |
what communicative language
functions are, their relationship to form and
meaning and ways of teaching functions |
language
skills |
understanding and teaching
reading, listening, speaking and writing |
learn
to transcribe |
a course
in transcribing English phonemically |
sentences and clauses |
guides to the basic
sentence structures and syntax including conjunctions,
questions and negatives |
teaching and materials |
practical guides to
teaching English, grouping learners, task and
activity types, materials construction, lesson planning and so on |
terminology and references |
lists, references,
terminology and so on |
verbs |
guides to verb types, the tenses of English
and verb forms |
words
and vocabulary |
types of words, meaning and
the relationships between words |
sentence grammar |
a single guide to
understanding the grammar of sentences in English |
pronunciation |
the essential guide to
pronunciation in
this section contains links to more complicated
guides for those who want to know more |
a list of lists |
A number of guides on this site
have links to lists of items you may find helpful. Here is the lists of lists. |
a short language analysis course |
a short course in how to approach analysing
the structures of English. It leads you
through analysing phonology, morphology, lexis,
phrases, clauses, sentences and text structures. |
courses |
for the index of all courses on ELT Concourse |
The Bridge |
The guides in this area
come half way between the initial plus training and
in-service-level
training. |
considering
Delta? |
this is a guide for people considering the next
stage of qualification with an index of links to
crucial preparation guides |
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detect and punish plagiarism.