The Methodology of English Language Teaching course is a ten-week course for individuals with little or no previous experience as English language teachers.

Course aim

MELT aims to teach the skills required by new or inexperienced English language teachers to prepare them to teach real beginner, elementary to intermediate level English language classes.

The course aims to develop basic English language teaching skills including the confident use of English for classroom management. It provides participants with the necessary knowledge and skills to teach up to the Australian Defence Force English Language Profiling System (ADFELPS) Level Six.

Course content includes:

• Adult learning
• Language acquisition
• Communicative language learning
• Preparing students to read
• Ways of reading
• Extensive reading 
• Vocabulary classroom techniques
• Teaching approaches
• Phonology how and where sounds are pronounced
• International phonetic alphabet
• Stress and intonation
• Ways of listening
• Teaching online
• Speaking sub skills
• Fluency and accuracy
• Speaking activities
• Lesson planning
• Writing skills
• Approaches to writing
• Teaching grammar
• Analysing language
• Language awareness
• Grammatical terms
• Classroom management
• and more..

Assessments and Guidance Officer (GO) sessions are also included, along with organised sport every Thursday and field trips to explore Melbourne.

Key resources

To support your learning, you will be supplied with the books below. They will act as further support and give you the chance to do some extra reading before and after lessons:

Teaching Practice - A handbook for teachers in training by Roger Gower, Diane Phillips, and Steve Walters	Practical English Use by Michael Swan