This course is offered on a modular basis; the course offers specialism in 1 or more of French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese; it aims to help students become efficient, effective, competent and professionally aware language teachers; acquire practical classroom skills, using a range of media; understand pupils' achievements and difficulties and to respond sympathetically to their individual needs; select, produce and use a wide variety of language teaching materials; develop a successful teaching style; maintain and extend competence in the chosen language(s); to these ends students are presented with and encouraged to adopt a range of strategies drawing upon current language teaching techniques, research, inspection findings and applications of new technology; the course leads to recommendation for the award of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).