This is an online course for language teachers on Teaching Professional Communication. Teaching professional communication in a vocational school or a university of applied sciences is always related to real life communication needs specific to various fields of study. On this course you will learn what the most typical communication situations are in various professional fields and how you can prepare your students to manage in those situations and develop generic working life competences at the same time. In addition, you will learn how to teach languages online!

After this course on teaching professinal communication, you will:

• have an overall understanding of vocational language teaching and learning
• be able to identify field specific communication needs
• have skills in designing collaborative online learning
• have experience of using a variety of digital tools to support learning
• be able to apply contemporary learning theories into teaching professional communication
• know how to plan student-centered language learning activities
• be able to empower students to develop agency and autonomy in using a foreign language
• be able to apply authentic assessment into language learning

Contents of the course:

• Contemporary research on learning professional communication in a foreign language
• Student-centered methods
• Authentic, Competence-based language learning
• Autonomous and empowering language learning
• Authentic assessment