Celta syllabus and assessment guidelines

Topic 2 assessment
Key assignment 
See Language related tasks on page 17.
Key teaching practice criteria
See pages 15 and 16 for criteria 4a–c, 4i–k and 2a–g.

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Topic 3 – Language skills: reading, listening, speaking and writing
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Syllabus content
Learning outcomes
Successful candidates are able to:
Assessment
3.1
Reading
3.1.1
Basic concepts and
terminology used for
describing reading skills
understand basic concepts and terminology used for describing 
reading skills, and apply this to planning and teaching
Teaching practice: 
Planning and teaching 
lessons to develop
reading skills
Assignment:
Language skills 
related tasks
3.1.2
Purposes of reading
understand how approaches to reading texts vary depending 
on the purpose of reading, and make practical use of this
in teaching
3.1.3
Decoding meaning
identify some of the features which help learners decode 
meanings of words, sentences and whole texts, and make 
practical use of this in teaching
3.1.4
Potential barriers to reading a. identify some of the difficulties learners may face when 
trying to understand texts
b. identify ways of making reading texts more intelligible
to learners
3.2
Listening
3.2.1
Basic concepts and
terminology used for
describing listening skills
understand basic concepts and terminology used for describing 
listening skills, and apply this to practical teaching
Teaching practice: 
Planning and teaching 
lessons to develop
listening skills
Assignment:
Language skills 
related tasks
3.2.2 Purposes of listening
understand how approaches to listening texts vary
depending on the purpose of listening, and make practical use
of this in teaching
3.2.3 Features of listening texts
a. identify some of the features which indicate the purpose of 
utterances and listening texts, and which help convey meaning 
b. make practical use of this knowledge and awareness in 
teaching
3.2.4 Potential barriers to 
listening
a. identify some of the difficulties learners face when listening 
b. demonstrate ways of helping learners understand listening 
texts and improve their listening skills
3.3
Speaking
3.3.1
Basic concepts and
terminology used for
describing speaking skills
understand basic concepts and terminology used for describing 
speaking skills, and apply this to practical teaching
Teaching practice: 
Planning and teaching 
lessons to develop
speaking skills
Assignments:
Language skills 
related tasks
Focus on the learner
3.3.2 Features of spoken English
a. identify some key features of spoken English
b. identify some ways in which spoken English differs from
written English
c. make practical use of this knowledge and awareness in 
planning and teaching
3.3.3 Language functions
a. identify a wide range of language functions and the forms 
used to express them
b. apply knowledge of language functions to planning
and teaching
3.3.4 Paralinguistic features
understand the role of paralinguistic features (e.g. gesture, gaze)
in communication
3.3.5 Phonemic systems
identify and describe some differences in phonemic systems of 
languages spoken by learners

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