Specialist Skills Courses

Specialist Skills Courses provide advanced skills development in specialised areas of TESOL. These courses are for AMEP teachers with expertise or interest in a specialised area and are targeted to the equivalent of Masters level units. Please note that there is a limit of 25 places available in each course.

Language learning in the digital age

• Date:  17-18 July 2008
• Location: Macquarie University, New South Wales 
  
• • Online continuation: 4-29 August 2008
    
    
• Convenor: Pamela McPherson

• Online course discussion
  

  
  

Enquiries to:

Liz Stokes
AMEP Research Centre PD Administrator
Phone: +612 9850 9645
Fax: +612 9850 7849
email: amep@nceltr.mq.edu.au

Teaching English for employment

In this course we will consider the characteristics of workplace communication on the basis of data from real workplaces. We will explore how real workplace interactions can be used in the ESL classroom. We will also consider how workplace training and English language teaching are related and can benefit from each other.

• Date:  02-03 October 2008
• Location: Macquarie University, New South Wales
  
• • Online continuation: 06 October - 16 November 2008
    
    
• Convenor: Ingrid Piller
  

Enquiries to:

Liz Stokes
AMEP Research Centre PD Administrator
Phone: +612 9850 9645
Fax: +612 9850 7849
email: amep@nceltr.mq.edu.au