Running the DOPLA course

A key feature of this course is its applicability to a mixed group of PGTAs and FLAs from any of the modern foreign languages. This makes it a highly cost-effective method of training. The tutors that have run the course have found the mix of students involved teaching a range of languages, as well as different aspects and levels of those languages, to be a stimulus for the creation and dissemination of imaginative teaching strategies across modern language groups.

If you would like to set up your own course, we can give send you a full set of DOPLA training materials. This pack comprises sixteen modules with tutor scripts, overhead transparencies, handouts and readers, together with video and audio materials. The modules cover a wide range of issues relating to modern foreign language teaching, including theories of language acquisition, teaching grammar, computer-assisted language learning, translation, the use of video and audio material, and teaching literary and cultural studies. The pack enables any modern languages department in the higher education sector to introduce an initial teacher-training course for their FLAs and PGTAs.