DELTA to go modular from September
A decade after it was first introduced, Cambridge ESOL’s highest-level teaching qualification, the Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults (DELTA) continues to set the standard for the profession.
Following a comprehensive review, we are introducing a modular DELTA syllabus, which will replace the current syllabus from September 2008.
The revised DELTA comprises three modules:
- Module One: background to teaching and learning
- Module Two: developing professional practice
- Module Three: focuses on a specialist option (e.g. Young Learners, English for Special Purposes, 1–1).
The aims of the revised DELTA are to:
- create an accessible and modular DELTA that offers candidates flexible entry points
- enable candidates to achieve DELTA in stages over a period of time that can fit with career and other commitments
- provide the opportunity for DELTA candidates to focus on specialist teaching e.g. teaching young learners, Business English
- encourage more flexible delivery, e.g. blended learning options
- allow individual modules to be taken as part of a programme of continuous professional development
- certificate partial achievement, e.g. development as a general English teacher.
Detailed specifications are available now and sample materials and guidance documents will be circulated to centres early in 2008 in the run up to the introduction of the revised syllabus.