Greetings from George Mason University!

Welcome to Teaching English Through English! This website is part an English language teacher professional development course created for the English Speaking Nation Program for Uzbekistan. sponsored by the Embassy of the United States, Tashkent. It has been made freely available for all English language teachers at the secondary level to power up their English class!

See Syllabus and Course Descriptions below.

Course Description

Teaching English through English (TETE) is an exciting ten-module professional development (PD) course designed to enhance the English used by teachers in English language classrooms. This course will focus on interactive and communicative approaches and help you learn how to build a classroom environment that encourages real communication in English. Through engaging videos and practical readings, you will explore effective approaches for teaching English while enhancing your ability to use English to manage language learning activities in the classroom. By participating in this course, you will have the opportunity to share ideas with peers in a community of practice (CoP), apply course content to your teaching context, and practice using English for a variety of instructional purposes.

Learning Objectives and Learner Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

1. explain and use various interactive and communicative approaches for teaching English to secondary students.

2. identify the language needed to carry out various instructional tasks in the classroom.

3. prepare classroom language needed for various types of lessons and activities.

4. practice and improve ability to manage your classroom and develop effective language tasks in English.

5. develop lesson plans and teaching materials that reflect accurate English.

6. create a reflective teaching portfolio for continuous improvement in teaching English through English.

7. engage in deep, critical reflection within a CoP of English language teaching professionals in your country.

Course Site and Licensing

This course has been built on a Google Site for easy access and flexible use. To promote the use and dissemination of these modules, all content has a Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0), which allows you to use, share, and adapt these materials freely as long as you give appropriate credit to the source.