Tesol Certificate Outline

TESOL Certificate

Course Outline

TEFL International’s TESOL certificate is a four week, 120 hours intensive course, teaching students how to teach English as a second language. TEFL International has been in operation for 9 years and has 21 schools operating around the world. You can find out more about our organization and the programs we offer by visiting out web site www.teflintl.com.

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Foreign Language Experience

The trainees receive training in an unknown foreign language to reflect on the experience of being a learner, and how this might direct their own teaching.

II.

Language Awareness

Grammar

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Inputs cover word classes, simple sentence elements,

complex sentences and clauses, verb time and tense, aspect and conditionals and modals, phrasals and voice. Phonology

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Inputs cover phonemics, word stress and intonation,

sentence stress and intonation, rhythm and intonation, and connected speech.

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III. Student Profile Trainees work with individual students on rapport-building, error analysis and addressing individual student needs. Two meetings with the student are required including transcription and error analysis of audio samples, culminating in a summary of the student's 'profile.'

IV. Teaching Techniques Teaching technique inputs normally cover:  language acquisition  warmers - with peer teaching

 classroom management  textbook review and evaluation

 controlled practice - with peer teaching  interactive materials  listening activities  appropriate language  language in context  vocabulary development - with peer teaching  communicative activities  theater techniques

 modeling context and language concepts  lesson planning  songs and chants  reading activities  writing activities  intermediate and content based lessons  teaching young learners  feedback and testing

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V.

Teaching Practice and Observation

All teachers are expected to perform:  4 hours observing experienced teachers  4 hours observing video of experienced teachers  16 hours of classroom observation  8 hours of individual teaching practice

VI. Materials Project All trainees must develop four sets of materials used during the teaching practice. The materials including drawings, audio tapes, scripts and others must be produced by the individual trainee, and not be copied from other sources. Two of these sets will be written up in The Portfolio as the Materials Compilation Project including:  context of the lesson  materials used  how and why the materials were used  critical review of how the materials or their use could be improved  suggestions about how these materials could be used in teaching other contexts As well each trainee must show that they can draw adequately on the board to model context and meaning during teaching practice.

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