Cambridge DELTA Assignments
In 2007, I did my Cambridge University DELTA (Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults) course and took the exam. This was the logical step after having done the CELTA in 2003.
I started preparing for the DELTA long before the actual course by doing research on the Internet, reading about various topics and taking an online teacher development course. What I found most difficult was to find insider information about the DELTA course. There were very few personal accounts. There are also no exam preparation books on the market for the DELTA as there are for all the other Cambridge exams. There was some information scattered on the Internet but it was difficult to get a real picture of what the course really was like.
This gave me the idea to create the Project DELTA Wiki as a platform for information about the DELTA. So far, there hasn’t been much participation but I hope this will change with time. So, if you are about to take the DELTA, you have the diploma already or you are a DELTA tutor, you are very welcome to contribute to the Wiki with your personal experience, your knowledge or with your questions.
One of the things that helped me a lot during the DELTA was to see sample assignments by former DELTA candidates. This is why I have decided to publish my DELTA assignments online on my website. On the Wiki you can find a link to more sample assignments by other former candidates.
Hi,
I think it is a great idea for online help. I hope to take my DELTA in March 2009, five years after I did the Trinity TESOL Cert. I think it will be incredibly valuable in my career, and I am looking forward to any comments, hints and useful tips I may find here.
Well done
Regards
John Oxley
Nice one. I just hope that all the lovely people who post their work online don’t get plagiarised. Obviously we all know how secure and well organised Cambridge Tefl testing procedures are and that all the worldwide centres who run Delta courses regularly share information so that trainees can’t just submit copies of other people’s assignments. Furthermore, don’t all assignments have to go to Cambridge for checking? (Er, no) Therefore plagiarism is well monitored. Yeah right. Module 2, take assignment from internet, change slightly, hand in to tutor, pass. Cynical? Yes, but…
@ John Thanks. I’m happy someone finds this useful.
@ namerequired If we were all afraid of our work being plagiarised, we wouldn’t have any valuable content on the Internet. Today, many journals publish research articles online. I published my assignments to help others get an idea of how to go about writing these papers. I thought after so much hard work it would be a pity to store them away. That would also mean that I only wrote those papers for a grade. Wouldn’t that be a shame?
As far as I know, all papers are sent to Cambridge. I know ours were packed in a box and sent there. Keep also in mind that for the DELTA you not only write a paper but you have to make a lesson plan and conduct a lesson based on your paper and what you have learned while doing research for it. Of course, there’s never a 100% guarantee that some candidates won’t plagiarise without being caught. But how will they feel about “their success”?