“Routes in Teaching Modern Greek” is a distance training course of the Centre for the Greek Language (Thessaloniki – Greece) addressed to Greeks leaving abroad and non-Greeks who are involved in teaching Greek as a foreign language.
Its aim is to keep teachers up-to-date with developments in teaching foreign languages, and in particular Greek, to help them acquire the knowledge and teaching skills required for language teaching and to train them in the methodology https://blogs.sch.gr/grsydn/?p=104&preview=trueof teaching Greek as a foreign language at all levels and to all age-groups.
The course takes place every year from June to next May. It lasts approximately 11 months and it doesn’t involve any fees.
The course is consisted of six modules, each comprising 2-4 units. The modules cover the following subject areas:
1. Topics in Language Teaching
2. Computer Assisted Language Learning
3. Teaching Grammar, Vocabulary and Pronunciation
4. Teaching Languages to Children
5. Assessment of Language Performance
6. Aspects of Language
The development of the course has been the product of the collaboration and the contributions of notable and experienced applied and theoretical linguists, philologists, educationalists and competent computer scientists. The on-line environment in which the course operates is user-friendly, easily accessible, and offers options that have been designed to address the trainees needs with efficiency and immediacy.
You can access the course by visiting http://elearning.greek-language.gr/.
To attend the course for 2010-2011 please download and fill in the relevant application form below. The deadline for application forms submission is the 16 of April 2010. Bear in mind that priority will be given to the first one hundred (100) applications. Thus, if you really want to attend the course please submit your application form as soon as possible.
For further information regarding the course and its modules please contact the Greek Education Office.
Application Form