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Our ITTT TEFL and TESOL Alumni Stories Preschool ESL Curriculum Components with VIPKID Anna Domiczek TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas Are you considering teaching English with VIPKID? Check out this blog post about preschool ESL curriculum components with VIPKID. Emerging Technologies for TEFL and How to Use them in Your Classroom Luciana Maluf Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas Emerging technologies, such as VR and augmented reality, are taking off in the English Language Classrooms globally. This article discovers the benefits of VR and augmented reality for your classroom. How Chants and Rhymes Benefit ESL Instruction Anna Domiczek Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas Many research articles demonstrate the effectiveness of chants and rhymes and list...  [Read more]

The World Of TEFL and TESOL Explained Preventing Favouritism in Class: A Teacher’s Perspective Lourien Prinsloo TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas The majority of battles we face in life can only be fought effectively if we have a clear understanding of the enemy. In this post, I will explain favouritism and offer guidance for preventing favouritism in the classroom. What is the Importance of Reading in EFL Teaching? Elaheh Rezvani TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Among the four main language skills, reading is considered to be influential in the process of language acquisition. Indeed, reading is one of the best contributors to the journey of learning a new language, and its advantages are not exclusive to reading comprehension. It enhances the other...  [Read more]

The Best Teaching Ideas for TEFL Teachers How to Keep English Fun By Diversifying Your Lessons Regan McAllister TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas Here are some easy and effective ways how to keep English fun by diversifying your EFL lessons. Live Session: Overview of All the Documents You Will Need to Teach English Abroad Federico Riva Budget and Salary TEFL Information Teaching Ideas One area that often causes unnecessary stress when planning to teach English abroad is ensuring you have all the documents you will need to make the move. This live session will cover the process so that nothing stands in the way of your dream! How to Structure your Study Phase To Target Receptive Skills Shirin Sophy Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas The study stage,...  [Read more]

Older Posts Never Fear! 7 Ways to Prevent Confusion in the Classroom Shakira Moss TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas Do you want to work as a teacher? These 7 tips to prevent confusion for your students will make a huge difference in your classroom! Teaching Special Groups in ESL - The Types of Beginners Federico Riva TEFL Information Teaching Ideas This blog post outlines the five most common types of starter or beginner groupings. Due to their different backgrounds, each of these groups requires different lesson planning and teaching methods to be used. New at ESP? Don’t get nervous! Estefany Garduño Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas In this blog post, we discover the world of teaching English for Specific Purposes, in short ESP. How to Live...  [Read more]

TEFL 120-hour Course - Unit 14   Unit 14 looks at course books and other materials that can be used in your English language lessons. The unit discusses the differences between authentic and created materials and why and when each should be used in a class. It also covers the advantages and disadvantages of using course books and the best ways to use a course book in your lessons. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next. Register now & get certified to teach...  [Read more]

TEFL 120-hour Course - Unit 15   This diary entry was completed after Chantelle finished unit 15. Unit 15 looks at different ways of evaluating and testing your students and the importance of doing so. Types of test covered include placement tests, progress tests, diagnostic tests, and practice tests. The unit also looks at the different external examinations students are likely to take such as TOEFL and IELTS. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next. Register now...  [Read more]

TEFL 120-hour Course - Unit 16   This is Chantelle?s video diary entry after completing unit 16 of her online TEFL course. Unit 16 covers conditionals and reported speech. Both language points can cause difficulty for English language learners and teachers alike. The unit outlines the structure and use of the conditionals and also provides some useful teaching ideas that can be used in your own classes. It also goes into detail about when we use reported speech and the changes that occur when changing direct speech into reported speech. You will also find teaching ideas to help you understand how this language point can be taught in the classroom. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online...  [Read more]

TEFL 120-hour Course - Unit 5   Chantelle details her experience of studying the fifth unit of her online TEFL course with ITTT. In this unit she learnt about classroom management and the different ways you can arrange your classroom and group students according to the needs of the lesson you are going to teach and of the students themselves. The unit also deals with reasons for problem behavior within a lesson and the ways a teacher?s body language can be used to communicate ideas about language as well as to reinforce instructions and requirements of the teacher. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English...  [Read more]

TEFL 120-hour Course - Unit 6   In this instalment of Chantelle?s TEFL course video diary she talks about the sixth unit. Unit 6 covers the past tenses; past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous. As with Unit 4, this unit describes the structure and common usages of the tenses as well pointing out common mistakes and providing teaching ideas that can be used in the classroom. Although not her favourite unit, Chantelle thought it was well laid out with good test questions and support. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured...  [Read more]

TEFL 120-hour Course - Unit 7   This episode of Chantelle?s TEFL course video diary looks at unit 7. Unit 7 deals with techniques for teaching new language whether this is grammar, vocabulary or functions. The unit provides different ways of teaching new language with sample lesson plans and suitable activities. Chantelle provides a good tip for potential students of ITTT?s online courses, which is to print off the course units as you access them and keep them in a folder so that you can easily go back to previous units and refresh your memory on what you have previously studied. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas...  [Read more]

TEFL 120-hour Course - Unit 9   In her ninth video diary instalment, Chantelle discusses unit 9 of her online TEFL course from ITTT. This unit covers lesson planning and the importance of being well prepared for your lessons. The unit discusses whether there is a need to plan lessons, how a lesson plan should be written and what should be included in a lesson plan. It also looks at ways to plan a sequence of lessons and how important it is for teachers to reflect on past lessons to help improve future classes. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design...  [Read more]

TEFL 120-hour Course - Unit 8   This video diary entry outlines Chantelle?s experience of studying unit 8 of her online TEFL course. Unit 8 is another tense unit, this time looking at the future tenses. These include the future simple, future continuous, future perfect, future perfect continuous and the ?going to? future. It also covers how the present simple and present continuous can be used to talk about the future. In this unit you will learn how the tenses are formed and used and what some of the most common errors students make. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient,...  [Read more]

TEFL 120-hour Course - Unit 10   Unit 10 provides students with the opportunity to see two real English language classes in progress one effective and one not so effective. During this unit you will analyze the two lessons and gain an understanding of how your attitude as a teacher and the way you interact with your students affects their ability and motivation to learn. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next. Register now & get certified to teach english...  [Read more]

TEFL 120-hour Course - Unit 11   In this TEFL video journal entry, Chantelle talks about unit 11 of her online course. Unit 11 deals with the two receptive skills reading and listening. The unit discusses the different reasons we have for reading or listening and outlines the different ways we do this such as skimming, scanning etc. The unit also outlines ways to overcome problems students may have with reading and listening and provides a sample receptive skills lesson plan. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to...  [Read more]

TEFL 120-hour Course - Unit 12   This episode of Chantelle?s TEFL video diary looks unit 12 of her online course. Unit 12 focuses on the two productive skills speaking and writing. The unit looks at the difference between accuracy and fluency and also discusses activities that can be used to encourage speaking and writing in both controlled and more creative situations. The unit discusses issues specific to writing such as handwriting, spelling, punctuation etc. It also looks at how games can be used in the classroom and encourages you to think about how to adapt different games for different language points. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units...  [Read more]

TEFL 120-hour Course - Unit 13   In Chantelle?s thirteenth video diary entry she talks about unit 13 of her 120-hour online TEFL course. Unit 13 covers pronunciation and phonology. As Chantelle notes there is a lot of information presented in this unit including phonology, stress, articulation and the phonemic alphabet. The unit also looks at how to teach individual sounds and when we should teach pronunciation to our students. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the...  [Read more]

TEFL 120-hour Course - Unit 4   In this video diary entry, Chantelle discusses unit 4 of her TEFL course. This unit covers the present tenses; present simple, present continuous, present perfect and present perfect continuous. The structures, usages and possible teaching ideas for each tense are outlined in the unit as well as common errors made by learners. The tenses are an aspect of the language that many native speakers of English struggle with as they are not explicitly taught in schools and, as Chantelle mentions, this was one of the more difficult units she has studied so far in the course. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus...  [Read more]

TEFL 120-hour Course - Unit 2   In this episode of Chantelle?s TEFL diary she takes us through her experiences with the second unit of her online TEFL course. Unit 2 of ITTT?s 120-hour TEFL course focuses on parts of speech; nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. As Chantelle points out in her video, having a basic understanding of the rules behind parts of speech is an important part of being an English teacher and is something that many native speakers of English take for granted. Although, as native speakers, we may instinctively know when and where to use the different parts of speech; understanding how to explain the rules to an English learner is a very different matter. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course....  [Read more]

TEFL 120-hour Course - Unit 1   Chantelle is taking a 120-hour online TEFL course with tutor support and videos with ITTT. This is the first of her video diary entries outlining her experience taking the course. Chantelle took the online course because it was better for her to study online than to commit to attending an onsite course. In this video she talks about the first unit of the course. Unit 1 deals with teachers and learners discussing what makes good teachers and learners as well as the types of roles teachers perform in class, motivation levels of different types of learners and the different language levels. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into...  [Read more]

TEFL 120-hour Course - Unit 3   In her third video, Chantelle talks about unit 3 of the 120-hour online TEFL course from ITTT. This unit deals with teaching theories, methodologies and techniques. The unit introduces several different methodologies before focusing on the ESA method that is used throughout the course. The unit also covers a range of different activities that can be used in a lesson. It also looks at ways to deal with correcting student mistakes and errors in spoken and written English. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means...  [Read more]

TESOL TEFL Reviews - Video Testimonial - Stratton   In this ITTT TESOL review video Stratton talks about his TEFL experience in Phuket, Thailand. He talks about some of the course content including grammar, phonology and Thai culture and traditions. He also talks about the many advantages of doing the course, meeting new people and experiencing new adventures. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next. Register now & get certified to teach english abroad! ...  [Read more]

Is a 120-hour TEFL enough? Many trainees wonder if a 120-hour TEFL certificate is adequate to teach in a classroom or online when looking for a teaching position. It may not appear to be enough time to become a competent teacher, but we guarantee that it is possible. Most ESL employers and schools will want you to complete at least 120 hours of training before applying for their vacant jobs. Some employers may even require that you have some classroom experience alongside the 120 hours of study. There are various TEFL courses available that contain this number of study hours, as well as some level of classroom practice, making them ideal for jobs that require experience. What is a 120-hour TEFL course? A 120-hour TEFL course is a training program for English speakers who want to teach...  [Read more]

The Most Popular TEFL Destinations For Teachers Step-By-Step Guide to Legally Teaching English in the Czech Republic Christine Thompson Visa and Legal Destinations The Czech Republic is an exciting country with prospering career opportunities in English language teaching for many around the world. Here's our step-by-step guide to legally teaching English in the Czech Republic. 5 Important Things to Prepare You for Teaching English in Hanoi Katie and Jake from Untold Wanderlust Destinations Are you interested in teaching English in Vietnam? Here are 5 important things to prepare you for teaching English in Hanoi! The Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program: All You Need to Know and How to Apply Laura Payne Destinations TEFL Information Are you interested in...  [Read more]

120-hour TEFL/TESOL Online Course from ITTT   The 120-hour TEFL/TESOL online certification course is our most popular course format. Complete 20 exciting units on teaching English as a foreign language and receive your hard-copy embossed TEFL/TESOL certificate via mail. This certification enables you to travel the world and live abroad teaching English. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next. Register now & get certified to teach english abroad! Check out...  [Read more]

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TEFL Review from Student Alex   In this TESOL review video, Alex enthusiastically discusses his experience with the ITTT TESOL course he recently undertook. He found the course to be comprehensive and well-structured. He particularly enjoyed the interactive nature of the course materials and the insightful feedback provided by the tutors. Check out ITTT's Blog Posts  [Read more]

TEFL Review from Student Mark   In this TEFL review video, Mark, a teacher from Russia currently teaching in Thailand, shares his thoughts on the 120-hour online TEFL course he recently completed with ITTT. He found the course to be very helpful and interesting. Mark, being from a non-native English speaking background, appreciated the comprehensive content that the course provided, which greatly enhanced his confidence in teaching English as a foreign language. Check out ITTT's Blog Posts  [Read more]

How many modules are in TEFL 120-hours? The majority of TEFL courses now offered, including those provided by ITTT, are divided into several modules to make the learning process as streamlined and simple to assimilate as possible. You should find it simpler to navigate through the materials and retain all of the information given by segmenting the many components of the course into distinct units, such as specific grammatical issues, classroom management, and lesson planning techniques. There is generally no predetermined number of modules in a TEFL course, as the majority of TEFL course providers offer a wide range of course alternatives to fit different aims and conditions. At ITTT we make sure that our selection of TEFL courses meets every need, from short-form courses appropriate for...  [Read more]

Course Online: 120-hour TEFL course with tutor & videos(for teaching abroad)     ITTT’s 120-hour TEFL certificate with tutor is our most popular course as it offers high-quality materials and the support of an experienced online tutor. Our 120-hour online TEFL certificate course is extremely popular as it includes high-quality course materials and results in an online TEFL certificate that is internationally recognized and welcomed by employers in all parts of the world. The course is also popular because you are able to work through it at whatever pace suits your personal circumstances and learning style. All graduates of this course will also have access to our unique career support services for the duration of their EFL teaching career. Upon completion of the...  [Read more]