INTRODUCTION

By: Massitah Binti Kipli

The two weeks Training Programme For Malaysian English Lecturers in the TVET Sector kicked off on 8 October 2014 with 200 participants from Polytechnics, Community Colleges as well as Vocational Colleges all over Malaysia. This programme took place at Balik Pulau Polytechnic in Penang. In Oxford, there are 29 participants involved. Let's get to know the participants here!

This programme encompasses a wide scope of technical and vocational aspect in teaching that consists of both language and technical content. There are six highly capable and dedicated trainers from Westminster Kingsway College, United Kingdom took part in this programme. Find out about the trainers here!

Contents of this programme are listed as follows;

1.  English Language Class (Food Service)

2.  English Language Class (Hospitality & Tourism)

3.  English Language Class (Engineering)

4.  English Language Class (Accountancy)

5.  English Language Class (Employability Skills)

6.  Aims of, and rationale for, CLIL

7.  Language across the curriculum

8.  Communication skills across the curriculum

9.  Materials selection and adaptation activity types

10. Planning a lesson or a series of lessons

11. Classroom language & higher order questioning

12. Learning skills across the curriculum

13. Language demands of subject content and accompanying tasks

14. Resources - including multi-media and visual organisers (multimodality)

15. Focus of assessment & effective error correction

16. Scaffolding content and language learning

17. Cognitive (and higher order thinking) skills across the curriculum

18. Consolidating learning and differentiation; including mixed ability group

19. Learning strategies & independent learning through technology

20. Types of assessment & higher order thinking skills in assessment

21. Support strategies & meeting the needs of all learners

Pen off - Oxford