The Programme covers the following learning areas:

• Latest methodologies of teaching English as a second language at primary level (about 70%) that aim at:

  1. Developing learners' generic skills, values and attitudes

  2. Adopting a learner-centred and task-based approach in the planning and organisation of learning, teaching and assessment

  3. Catering for learner diversity through developing a wide range of tasks and employing teaching strategies that suit the needs, interests, abilities and learning styles of different learners

  4. Promoting learner independence through the development of lifelong language learning skills and strategies

  5. Facilitating the development of a 'reading to learn' culture and helping learners acquire effective reading skills and develop good reading habits

  6. Encouraging the use of various learning and teaching materials, including language arts and non-language arts

  7. Creating a language-rich environment through promoting a cross-curricular approach to learning

  8. Promoting assessment for/as learning in addition to assessment of learning

• School-based curriculum development (about 15%) that aims at:

  1. Facilitating the development of a school-based curriculum to suit the needs, interests and abilities of their students, and the school context

  2. Facilitating the development and implementation of a school-based English language curriculum to support lifelong learning

  3. Enhancing curriculum planning, management and evaluation

• Use of IT in enhancing English learning and teaching (about 15%) that aims at:

  1. Promoting the use of IT for interactive learning​

  2. Selecting, adapting and evaluating language e-learning resources

  3. Providing hands-on-practices in the use of IT in enhancing English learning