Overview
Advance your English and Foreign Language teaching skills!
Language teachers are in demand in Australia and around the world. With no previous teaching qualification or experience required, this course will prepare you for a rewarding career teaching language in Australia and overseas.
The Graduate Diploma in TESOL and Foreign Language Teaching (FLT) will further develop your knowledge of language as a system and expand your skills in language teaching and testing.
You will gain invaluable teaching practice with ongoing guidance from an experienced mentor in a second/foreign language teaching institution.
This flexible course can be studied either full-time in 1 year or part-time in 2 years and is designed to work for you.
Study the Graduate Diploma of TESOL and Foreign Language Teaching at UC and you will:
- develop the skills required for the effective teaching and learning of English and other languages
- gain professional practice in language teaching
- gain a deeper understanding of language as a system
- learn about the design of language testing and current assessment practices
- build specialised knowledge and skills for professional practice in a range of educational settings
- empower learners with your strong subject and pedagogical knowledge
- establish and maintain ethical and respectful relationships with students, colleagues and parents
- develop the strengths and linguistic needs of students from diverse cultural, religious and socio-economic backgrounds.
Work Integrated Learning (WIL)
WIL is an integral part of the UC journey and all students are encouraged to actively attend and participate in relevant placements, workshops, conferences and events where they will have the opportunity to engage with both internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
This approach gives students an invaluable opportunity to meet and build strong networking relationships with industry professionals and greatly improves their employability at time of graduation.
Career opportunities
A Graduate Diploma of TESOL and Foreign Language Teaching will prepare you for a career in a wide range of professional contexts in Australia and internationally, including teaching English to speakers of other languages, or foreign language teaching.
Graduates can work in such roles as:
- teacher of English as a second language in Australia
- teacher of a language other than English
- adult educator
- workplace-based TESOL instructor
- community educator
- teaching assistant
- language specialist
- interpreter
- Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) specialist
- community or refugee support officer
- flexible learning developer
- language coach/tutor
- foreign aid worker
- language teaching policy design and implementation
