Last modified: 01 Oct 2025 15:46
The course aims to help students develop a theoretical and practical understanding of psychological, physiological and environmental factors that influence the well-being of language teachers and learners. Course is an elective course for the MSc in TESOL.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | First Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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The course aims to help students develop a theoretical and practical understanding of psychological, physiological and environmental factors that influence the well-being of language teachers and learners. Students will develop an ability to identify factors that promote well-being in the classroom and an ability to select and evaluate measures that can be taken to promote well-being in their own professional life.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 10 | |
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| Feedback |
10% seminar participation mark to monitor and encourage student engagement. |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 40 | |
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| Feedback |
3-hour essay-type class test (two questions to answer), worth 40% of the overall grade. Written and oral feedback. |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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| Feedback |
60-minute multiple-choice class test (43 items) and open-item questions that require a brief answer. The test is worth 50% of the overall grade. Written and oral feedback. |
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There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Reflection | Analyse | Differentiate between fixed mindset and growth mindset practices in the classroom and assess the appropriateness of their use. |
| Procedural | Apply | Identify common teaching and learning-related stressors in a language classroom |
| Reflection | Evaluate | reflect on their own experience of engaging with mindfulness-based approaches to well-being |
| Procedural | Apply | Apply knowledge and skills to their teaching pedagogy. |
| Procedural | Analyse | Identify and examine ways of promoting well-being in the language teaching context. |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Understand complex interactions among stressors, cognitive appraisal processes, physiological responses and behaviours that are used to cope with the stressors in teaching. |
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