PGDip Teaching English for Academic Purposes

Year 1

(Award available for year: Postgraduate Certificate)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:

Pedagogical knowledge:
- Demonstrate in-depth, knowledge of the range of academic contexts and pedagogical options.
- Demonstrate the ability to practically apply knowledge of the field to professional practice.

Discipline Knowledge:
- Exhibit competence in analysing and describing academic communication for the purposes of teaching.
- Evaluate current issues and research both within the field and across higher education.

Research and professional competency
- Take a proactive and self-reflective role in working and to develop professional relationships with others;
- Proactively formulate ideas and issues and to investigate, evaluate and communicate these;

Transferable (key) skills

Masters (taught), Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate students will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- the skills necessary to undertake a higher research degree and/or for employment in a higher capacity in an area of professional practice;
- evaluating their own achievement and that of others;
- self-direction and effective decision making in complex and unpredictable situations;
- independent learning and the ability to work in a way which ensures continuing professional development;
- critically to engage in the development of professional/disciplinary boundaries and norms.
- The skills necessary to communicate scholarship, research and ideas via a range of genres and formats.

Assessment

Achievement for the degree of Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:

- demonstrating the ability to practically apply breadth and/or depth of knowledge to a complex specialist area;
- drawing on a knowledge base and a range of perspectives on an area of study;
- evaluating practices.
- making reasoned contextual judgements whilst understanding the complexity and limitations on judgements made within a contested and emerging knowledge base.