English Teaching Courses with TEFL International

The TEFL International English teaching course (TEFL/TESOL) is world-renowned and equips you for the professional task of teaching English overseas, or in your home country.

Our English teaching courses last for four weeks in a variety of exciting sites around the world, and have a very practical emphasis. There is no need to speak any language other than English, as our courses concentrate on training you to teach English with the international standard communicative approach - where English is the only language used in the classroom.

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All applications from candidates aged 18 (younger ages may be considered in exceptional circumstances) and above will be considered for our English teaching courses. TEFL International's TEFL courses are split into six main areas. Our course content remains the same everywhere and does not vary with location. TEFL courses are intensive, four-week programs, however all trainees have sufficient time to explore the local area, experience the culture and meet new people.

Course organizers will also arrange leisure activities for our TEFL students to socialize in their spare time, helping them make the most of their experience.

TEFL International's TEFL Courses

TEFL International TEFL courses are certainly demanding; however, we do everything within our power to encourage TEFL students to pass the course and to promptly acquire a teaching job abroad.

The course is divided into six main areas:

1. Teaching Practice

This is the most practical and fundamental area of any TEFL/TESOL course, as well as the main reason that online and distance learning programs do not suffice. Course trainees teach real students of English and put into practice the skills learnt during the course.

2. Foreign Language Experience.

The trainees receive instruction in an unknown foreign language to reflect on the experience of being a learner, as well as to help direct their own teaching.

3. Language Awareness

a) This area focuses on grammar and covers word classes, simple sentence elements, complex sentences and clauses, verb time and tense, aspect and conditionals and modals, phrases and voice.

b) This area concentrates on phonology and covers phonemics, word stress and intonation, sentence stress and intonation, rhythm and intonation, and connected speech.

4. Student Profile

Trainees work with individual students on rapport building, error analysis and correction, and addressing individual student needs. Three meetings with the student are required; these will include a transcription and error analysis of audio and written samples, culminating in a 60-minute session observed by a trainer.

5. Teaching Techniques.

This component of the course covers areas such as:

• Lesson planning
• Classroom management 
• Establishing rapport 
• Discipline in the classroom 
• Managing equipment and teaching aids 
• Creating materials
• Correction techniques  
• Evaluation and testing  
• Teaching vocabulary  
• Teaching grammar  
• Teaching receptive skills (reading and listening)  
• Teaching productive skills (speaking and writing)  
• Games in the classroom  
• Songs in the classroom  
• Teaching beginner students  
• Teaching individual students  
• Teaching business English  
• Teaching young learners

6. Materials Project

All trainees must develop two sets of materials used during the teaching practice. These materials will be useful for future teaching practices and will help you begin creating your own materials file when English teaching. The materials should be easily portable, durable and be able to be used in more than one context (eg. vocabulary + grammar).

The materials may include visuals, audio or video tape, and cue cards or class handouts, but may not be photocopied from published sources. Trainees are required to adapt materials from commercial sources, or develop their own original materials.

You will present these materials to a course trainer and demonstrate how they were used, suggest how they can be improved and how they could be used in another context.