S3 32.0 Combining Language and Content for Tour Guides

TTELT: Teaching Tips for English Language Teachers

Join us to hear Arpine Harutyunyan, a teacher at Luys Zvart Education Center, Armenia, share with us “Combining Language and Content for Tour Guides.” Harutyunyan describes a teaching approach relevant for an efficient combination of language and other skills into one course, discussing tips and tools for producing an effective incorporated course for future tour guides. The mastery of the English language is significantly important for people working in the tourist industry, and especially tour guides, due to their constant contact with foreign tourists. In fact, they need to master not only General English, but also English for Specific Purposes, basic communication, cross-cultural communication as well as leadership skills, and be aware of the tourist resources of their country. Thus, teachers and educators need to meet the challenge of creating a curriculum that will incorporate the instruction of the above-mentioned variety of skills. A viable solution can be the Content-Based Instruction (CBI) approach. Join us to hear more! Top Tips -CLIL -Content and Language Integrated Learning -English for Tourism -Cross-Cultural Communication #teachingtips#tesol#esl#elt#tesolteaching#education#innovation#creativity#communication#CPD

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