Making the best out of the technology available!

Setting up and Optimizing Language Resource Centers I is intended to cover theoretical foundations and practical applications related to the development of technology-rich language classrooms, and the organization, managing and optimization of language resource centers as autonomous learning environments by considering how the information and communication technologies (ICT) and other resources available within a particular context may support learning and teaching. 

Learner Autonomy and Self Access Materials (LASAM 2017-1)

This course is designed in order to teach the candidate to reflect, select and apply strategies and procedures for learning English in an Autonomously as well as being able to design and create digital content that is relevant to your learners' profiles.

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and help them become what they are capable of being”. – Goethe

Welcome to the Content and Language Integrated Learning course! The overall goal of this course is for you to identify areas that need improvement and apply solutions in terms of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) in your teaching. We all know what it is like to see students stumbling over concepts, processes, or creating products. We often assume they have the previous linguistic or content knowledge to be successful—but, many times, we find we have to supplement their instruction. But how can we best do this? With what? And at what point? These are all questions to be examined, discussed, and—hopefully—answered in this course.

Action Research Project III is intended to develop strategies and skills that will allow learners to make decisions for data collection procedures and instruments design. In this course students will have the opportunity to plan and conduct pedagogical intervention based on a specific problem of their educational context in order to reflect on and improve their research processes and teaching practice.

The Research 2 course continues developing the practical aspects of your professional-level research competences in connection with English-language teaching. In this course, you are working on a state-of-the-art paper (treating the same topics as your theoretical-framework paper of the Research 1 course). Your work this semester forms the foundation for your work in the third-semester Research 3 course, and successfully completing the Research 2 course is a prerequisite for enrolling in the Research 3 course.

The Research 2 course continues developing the practical aspects of your professional-level research competences in connection with English-language teaching. In this course, you are working on a state-of-the-art paper (treating the same topics as your theoretical-framework paper of the Research 1 course). Your work this semester forms the foundation for your work in the third-semester Research 3 course, and successfully completing the Research 2 course is a prerequisite for enrolling in the Research 3 course.

The Research 3 course continues the development of your research skills, with a focus on empirical action research. During this semester, you revise, refine, and expand on your previous semesters’ work and complete the third and fourth chapters of your research report, including the design and development of your implementation and data collection stages. Additionally, you continue with the writing of a shorter, article-length presentation of your research project that (for this semester) includes a much-condensed version of some of the same content covered in the third and fourth chapters of the research report.