Teaching business English
The Teaching Business English course in Brighton helps prepare lecturers and other teachers of English and business for a range of teaching situations.
Teaching English with technology course for teachers in Brighton
This course is designed for all teachers of English who wish to integrate, explore and develop the use of technology in language teaching. It’s a very practical course aiming to provide participants with lots of hands-on experiences that will prove incredibly useful for both you and your students.
- Maximum students: 12
- Minimum age: 21
- Course duration: 2 weeks
- CEFR entry level:
- B1
- B2
- C1
- C1+
At ELC Brighton we offer a 2-week course designed to develop your skills in teaching English with technology. The two weeks give you a total of 45 hours of classroom time, and run from Monday to Friday each week. We run this course six times a year, in January, April, July (twice), August and October.
Before you arrive
A preparation pack is sent to you on enrolment. Before the start of the course, you’ll be asked to complete a pre-course questionnaire which will enable the course leaders to focus more specifically on the exact needs of the participants.
Course activities
Our Teaching English with technology course will:
- develop participants’ awareness of how technology can support language learning
- look at how technology can be integrated into teaching
- equip participants with practical and engaging ideas they can use in their classrooms
- enable teachers to learn about technology through experimentation with various tech tools
- improve participants confidence in using technology in their classes and their digital literacy
- develop participants’ own English language skills and refresh their approach to teaching English.
Course outcomes
At the conclusion of the course you should have:
- improved personal English language skills
- improved confidence in class
- deeper sensitivity to cultural diversity
- knowledge of other European systems of education
- strategies, skills and activities of teaching
- better knowledge of Erasmus+ potential for your own and others’ professional development
- enhanced classroom methodological practice
- ideas for improving students’ motivation
- interpersonal skills and teamwork
- better awareness of learning needs, difficulties and behaviour.
Erasmus+ funding
The Teaching English with technology course at ELC Brighton may be suitable for European Union funding through Erasmus+. This has changed since Brexit so please contact your National Agency. See our guide on how to apply for EU funding.
Minimum class size
The minimum number required for this TECH course is four students. In the event that we receive fewer than four students, please be assured that we will not cancel your booking. Instead, we will give you 20 lessons per week of General English in the morning with 10 lessons in the afternoon focusing on language teaching methodology, in a one-to-one, two-to-one or three-to-one class, as appropriate.
Course features
- You’ll be in a multi-national group for your English classes.
- All course books and materials are included.
- You can use the self-access study centre after lessons to practise and improve.
- We conduct a pre-course needs assessment to get your course just right.
- Each course is tailor-made to the needs of the participants.
- Suitable for Erasmus+ funding applications.
Who is this Teaching English with Technology course for?
This course is designed to equip you with the skills to use technology while you are teaching English. It will develop and refresh your approach to teaching the language, show you practical and engaging classroom practices, study how technology can be integrated into teaching and demonstrate how tech can support language learning.
You need to be over 21 years old, and you should already be at CEFR B1 to CEFR C1+ level of English language ability.
Our other courses for teachers at ELC
English in the primary classroom
Primary English teaching is very different from teaching English to other age groups, and is definitely worth studying if you work with young learners.
Language, methodology and culture
Our Language, methodology and culture course in Brighton develops your English language skills, whilst giving you a refreshing, practical look at current language…
CLIL content and language integrated learning
CLIL is where you teach any subject at school, college or university, and you teach that subject in English, when English is not your first language.
Eastbourne: CELTA preparation
The CELTA course is probably the best known initial teacher training qualification for teaching English (TEFL course). We offer the CELTA course in Eastbourne.
Find your English level
Our language learning levels relate closely to how the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) define them, but with a difference which we have found to help our students at Elementary level.
| ELC level | Equivalent CEFR levels | |
|---|---|---|
| A0 | ||
| A1 | ||
| Upper A1 | Lower A2 | |
| A2 | ||
| B1 | ||
| B2 | ||
| C1 | ||
| C2 | ||
We offer an English level test which anyone can take. It involves 50 questions and, depending on your level, will probably take you from 10 to 20 minutes. At the end of it, we will tell you your probable level.
But when you book, we will ask you to take a more detailed and accurate test, to make sure that you start in the class which is best for you.