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DELTA Assignments Overview - June2017

There are 6 assignments that make up the portfolio for the DELTA course: 2 Professional Development Assignments, 2 Language Systems Assignments, and 2 Language Skills Assignments. The first Language Systems Assignment focuses on teaching grammar, while the first Language Skills Assignment examines receptive skills like reading and listening. The second Language Skills Assignment looks at productive skills like speaking and writing. The second Language Systems Assignment explores developing vocabulary. The Professional Development Assignments involve reflection on teaching practice, developing strengths and weaknesses, and exploring new techniques. All assignments require background essays, lesson plans, teaching reflections, and are internally or externally assessed.

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DELTA Assignments Overview - June2017

There are 6 assignments that make up the portfolio for the DELTA course: 2 Professional Development Assignments, 2 Language Systems Assignments, and 2 Language Skills Assignments. The first Language Systems Assignment focuses on teaching grammar, while the first Language Skills Assignment examines receptive skills like reading and listening. The second Language Skills Assignment looks at productive skills like speaking and writing. The second Language Systems Assignment explores developing vocabulary. The Professional Development Assignments involve reflection on teaching practice, developing strengths and weaknesses, and exploring new techniques. All assignments require background essays, lesson plans, teaching reflections, and are internally or externally assessed.

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DELTA Assignments Overview

There are 6 assignments on the course that go to make up your portfolio. These consist of 2
Professional Development Assignments, 2 Language Systems Assignments and 2 Language
Skills Assignments:

1. Assessed Assignments

The first Language Systems Assignment (LSA1) is about teaching grammar; the idea is to look
at ways to helps learners with understanding and applying grammar; looking at inductive or
deductive teaching and fronting meaning and understanding/interpretation when teaching
grammar.

The first Language Skills Assignment (LSA2) is about receptive skills (reading or listening); this
looks at the micro-skills we can focus on to help our learners with comprehension and
understanding. Reflect on the processes they go through to achieve this; e.g. bottom-up and
top-down processing, decoding and interpreting the message, etc.

The second Language Skills Assignment (LSA3) is about productive skills (speaking or writing)
and the micro-skills we focus on; how to teach speaking or writing as skills in their own right
and not just as freer/fluency practice of discrete grammar items

 The first three assignments are assessed internally by one of your tutors on the
course.

The second Language Systems Assignment (LSA4) is about developing learner’s ability to use
and remember lexis. It’s necessary to understand the nature of vocabulary and vocabulary
learning and to think about the different techniques we can use to help vocabulary
development. This is normally done on an area of lexis, phonology or discourse.

 This assignment is assessed externally by an approved Cambridge assessor.

Each assignment includes:


 a background essay (2.000- 2.500 words): an exploration of a language skill or system
and related teaching and learning issues and solutions
 a lesson plan related to the area chosen
 an assessed lesson related to the area chosen
 written post lesson reflection and evaluation ( 500 words)
 Each LSA is awarded two grades:
1 for the Background Essay and 1 for the Lesson (Includes the Lesson Plan, the
Teaching and Learning in the lesson and the Reflection and Evaluation)

2. Professional Development Assignment (PDA)


The focus is on the development and extension of your teaching skills. There are two parts:

Part A
Reflection and Action: this is a developmental assignment you work on during the course.
There are 4 parts to this (total word count of 2,000 – 2,500 words)

Stage 1: Involves teaching an observed (but not assessed) lesson and doing feedback on this
with your tutor. This is done in the first week of the course.
Stage 2: Involves a statement of your Beliefs and Practices about teaching and learning. Then
from the diagnostic lesson and your previous experience identifying strengths and weaknesses
and designing an action plan of areas of your teaching and planning to work on; usually 3 or 4
areas of development.
Stage 3: Involves a reflection on Stage 2 and identifying new areas for development. This is
done after you have completed LSA 1 and LSA 2 assignments.
Stage 4: Involves a reflection on your action plan throughout the course and identifying how
you’ll continue with your professional development after the course. This is done after you
have completed LSA 3.

Part B:
Experimental Practice: Involves exploration into an approach, technique or procedure you are
not familiar with. It includes a background essay and post lesson appraisal of between 1, 500-
2,000 words in total) and a lesson plan/ outline.

The whole PDA assignment is marked internally and is not normally included in your portfolio
that is sent to Cambridge

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