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nwtefl
Joined: 20 May 2015 Posts: 148 Location: England
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 9:06 am Post subject: EAP/ESL Interview Task in UK - any ideas ? |
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Hi
I have an interview tomorrow in the UK for an EAP/ESL job at a university. All I know is that I will be given a task to do and I'll have 20 minutes to do it in; after which I'll have a 30 minute interview.
I have no idea what the task will be. Does anyone have any suggestions? |
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Londonlover
Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 90 Location: London
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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The task could be almost anything related to teaching English for Academic Purposes. They might ask you to explain how you would teach note-taking for academic university lectures, they might give you an except from an academic reading text like a journal article or text book chapter and ask you to plan a lesson around it to teach reading skills/vocab and how you would best exploit the text to highlight features of the specifically academic genre. They may give you part of a student's academic essay and get you to prepare feedback on that student's main strengths and weaknesses in their academic writing and what would suggestions you would make to improve it. You will need to show you know your EAP rather than EFL.
I also doubt they will be asking you to create a lesson to teach a grammar point. |
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nwtefl
Joined: 20 May 2015 Posts: 148 Location: England
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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Right, so it could be anything ! I agree of course. So I don't know what they expect me to be able to do in 20 minutes ! |
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currentaffairs
Joined: 22 Aug 2012 Posts: 828
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 2:18 am Post subject: |
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Let us know what they get you to do.. |
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Londonlover
Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 90 Location: London
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:22 am Post subject: |
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Yes, it would be nice if the original poster had the courtesy to reply and let us know what the task ended up being, after I took the trouble to respond to their enquiry. |
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