Maktabat MEPI Library
Training Resources for Civil Society in the Middle East and North Africa

This curriculum outlines objectives and activities for the second day of the Phase Two training session for the Ministry of Higher Education Faculty Development Course. Topics in this curriculum include Second Language Acquisition (SLA) theory and communicative competence.

This handout explains the model of communicative competence, including definitions of grammatical competence, discourse competence, sociolinguistic competence and strategic competence.

This diagram helps to explain the relationship between the teacher educator, the English teacher and the student.

This diagram lists the steps for a successful Experimental Learning Cycle (ELC) lesson. The steps include: providing a sample English Language Learner (ELL) lesson, a description of the lesson, analysis of the lesson and a plan for action.