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.

I. 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 - Inputs cover word classes, simple sentence elements,

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

Phonology - 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  classroom management

 warmers - with peer teaching  textbook review and evaluation

 controlled practice - with peer  modeling context and language

teaching concepts
 interactive materials  lesson planning
 listening activities  songs and chants
 appropriate language  reading activities
 language in context  writing activities
 vocabulary development - with  intermediate and content
peer teaching based lessons
 communicative activities  teaching young learners
 theater techniques  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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