Once you have been offered and have accepted a place on our part-time DELTA, we will send you a pre-course task.

There is a lot of background reading to be done during the course so the sooner you start, the better.

General reading. We strongly recommend that you (re)read either “Learning Teaching” (Jim Scrivener) or “The Practice of English Language Teaching” (Jeremy Harmer) before the course, as the highly practical contents of both books are an excellent starting point.

Specific areas to start reading up on are:

Language skills (Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing), Language Systems (grammar, lexis, discourse, phonology), methodology (history of elt, task-based, communicative approach, lexical approach, etc).

There are now literally hundreds of excellent books for teachers available. All the big publishers have methodology books. Click on these links to go straight to their “Books for Teachers” sections:

Oxford University Press Cambridge University Press Pearson / Longman Heinemann / MacMillan

Visit our links page for some useful websites for teachers, including all the major publishers.

A good place to buy books is PLAY.COM . Their prices are competitive,they don’t charge for postage, and they don’t wait for all your books to arrive at the warehouse before the post them to you (unlike other online bookstores we could mention!)