Foundations for Language Teaching

Name: Foundations for Language Teaching
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Acquire the essential strategies and skills to begin teaching a language

Created byAlexander Noce

Last updated 9/2025

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What you'll learn

Begin teaching a new language from the very first day, using practical strategies and learner-centered strategies..
Apply essential classroom management practices to create an engaging and organized learning environment.
Conduct quick oral proficiency assessments to identify student language levels and adjust instruction accordingly.
Implement key scaffolding strategies that support learners in building and extending their language proficiency step by step.

Course content

1 section • 10 lectures • 55m total length

Module 1: Course Introduction3:30
Discover the course approach to language teaching through activation activity and nine training modules that cover assessing, scaffolding, building comprehensible input, providing feedback, and engaging learners.
Module 2: Speaking Levels & Descriptors8:03
Module 3: Input-Output Spectrum4:51
Explore the input-output spectrum to link listening, reading, gestures, and symbols with speaking and writing. Apply comprehensible input principles: current level, I plus one, and frustration level to guide planning.
Module 4: Classroom Management6:20
Set clear expectations, stay organized, and foster engagement to manage a language classroom confidently with learner-centered strategies, feedback, and 90% immersion.
Module 5: Lesson Phases8:12
Apply the four phases of a language lesson: presentation, practice, performance, and formative assessment. Use the lesson phases spectrum to plan with scaffolding, feedback, and context-rich input.
Module 6: High-Support Scaffolding6:04
Explore high-support scaffolding to help students build listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills, using language modeling, visual support, simple comprehension checks, and speech modification.
Module 7: Medium-Support Scaffolding2:59
Explore medium-support scaffolding to help students build listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills using advanced comprehension checks, sentence starters, and the speaking mat.
Module 8: Low-Support Scaffolding3:30
Apply low support strategies to help students build listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills as they gain confidence, using Shadebox, Venn diagrams, reporting back, and tasks.
Module 9: Corrective Feeedback6:18
Master corrective feedback strategies to boost accuracy and fluency with timely, communicative methods. Apply a spectrum—from explicit correction to recasts and deferred feedback—across grammatical, lexical, phonetic, and pragmatic errors.
Module 10: Assessment5:45
Explore formative assessment strategies such as activation, comprehension checks, task and self-assessment, and contrast them with summative assessment to measure language progress and inform instruction.

Requirements

No teaching experience or education required. You will get what you need to know to start teaching immediately.

Description

The Apprentice Teacher Training Course equips you with the foundational skills needed to confidently begin your journey as a language educator. Designed for new and developing teachers, this course focuses on linguistically-proven essential best practices that create communicative and learner-centered classrooms.

You’ll learn how to:

Quickly assess your students’ oral proficiency level to identify their starting point and track progress as they develop their language skills.
Balance input and output so learners receive meaningful input while actively using the language.
Develop your classroom engagement, organization and professionalism by using effective classroom management strategies.
Apply best practices drawn from linguistic research to design engaging lessons.
Scaffold using high, medium and low-support strategies to provide comprehensible input and support students as they gradually build fluency.
Deliver communication-based corrective feedback stretegies in ways that reduce anxiety while encouraging accuracy and growth.
Use assessment strategies to measure progress, set goals, and guide future lessons.

Throughout the course, you will engage with practical examples, role-play scenarios, and reflection activities that connect theory directly to classroom practice. By the end, you will have a concrete toolkit of strategies to create motivating, communicative, and effective lessons that help students reach their language acquisition goals. It's time to rise above the rest!

Who this course is for:

New language teachers and tutors with little or no classroom experience
Experienced teachers who want professional development