You noticed there’s something wrong with coursebook-driven language teaching, but you can’t quite explain what it is.
You realized most teacher training courses, events, and conferences focus on how to teach a language without paying any attention to how languages are learned.
You want to understand how languages are learned so you become a more efficient teacher.
You want to be able to talk about how people learn languages and contribute to our teaching community.
You’ve come to the right place, fellow language nerd. Getting into SLA is ELT in Brazil’s most ambitious project — we want to help teachers understand how languages are learned in depth. This is a course that will go deep into the theory and practice that shape the future of ELT.
This course has been expertly crafted over years of study and more than six months of design and has gone through more than 15 rounds of feedback with fellow teachers to ensure you’re getting the best course we can provide — and one we are sure will transform your lessons and you as a professional.
Stop talking about your teaching ‘beliefs’ and be ready to substantiate your teaching and your decisions with facts, research, and the best theory our field has to offer.
Over 20 weeks of study, we will cover:
– Skill-acquisition theory
– The nature of language
– Implicit and explicit learning
– Krashen’s monitor hypothesis
– Swain’s output hypothesis
– Long’s interaction hypothesis
– Long’s focus on form
– Schmidt’s noticing hypothesis
– Authentic assessment
– The ETRER framework
Here’s what you’re signing up for:
– 20 weeks of guided learning
– One live session a week
– Recommended articles, webinars, and podcast episode for each topic
– Tiny experiments to try out the theory in your lessons
– Visual summaries of each topic
– All session recordings
– An exclusive WhatsApp group
– Lifetime access
We know life happens and that it is difficult to commit to a whole semester of learning. For this reason, by registering for this course, you will have lifetime access to all the lessons (including the live lessons!) and all the material.
Let me make this clear: did you have to miss three weeks because your parrot got a sore throat? No worries, you’re welcome to join us next semester and retake the whole course live.
Starting on February 12th and ending on July 9th.
Course fee: 10x R$325 (first payment no later than January, R$3250 total)
For members of the Inner Circle: 10x R$277 (R$2763 total)
