Certificate in TESL
Aims of the course
The course aims to provide the trainees with the awareness, skills, and confidence they need to effectively teach ESL/EFL to adults in accordance with current research and practice, know as Communicative Language Teaching. While the course will not prescribe a single "right" way of teaching, it will provide trainees with a sound theoretical and practical base from which they will be encouraged to develop their own personal teaching philosophy and style throughout the course and into their professional careers.
The course is divided into five areas:
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
Topics covered include;
- The role of the teacher with regard for promoting effective learning.
- To consider ways in which we can maximize student interaction in the classroom.
- Effective strategies for Classroom Management in relation to eye contact, gesture, voice, student grouping, pre-lesson preparation, rapport with students, using the board, behaviour management.
- Skills needed in the presentation of materials: the board, the flip chart, prepared cards.
- Maintaining discipline
- Giving instructions
TEACHING SKILLS
This is a highly practical element of the course where trainees consider;
- The essential ingredients of a well planned lesson
- The relationship between language structure and vocabulary
- Strategies for teaching vocabulary
- Effective strategies for correcting students mistakes
- Specific issues concerned with teaching beginners
- Ways to introduce and use a variety of language games
- Ideas for oral communicative language learning activities
- Ways to present a methodological model for teaching receptive skills (listening and reading)
- Ways to present a methodological model for teaching productive skills (writing and speaking)
- Models for introducing new language structures (grammar)
- Specific issues involved in the teaching of children
- Specific issues involved in teaching Business English
- The principles underpinning good assessment
LANGUAGE AWARENESS (GRAMMAR)
This section of the course aims to consolidate trainee's knowledge of the English grammar system and provides practical ideas as to how it can be taught.
Some different aspects of grammar covered include:
- The tense system
- Nouns/adjectives
- Verbs/adverbs
- Infinitives
- Gerunds
- Parts of speech
- Modal auxiliary verbs
- Conditionals
- Relative clauses
- Phrasal verbs
- Teaching pronunciation
- Phonetics
PHONOLOGY
Focus on areas such as stress, intonation, rhythm and the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Upon completion, students will receive:
1. ATTI TESL Certificate
2. TESL Awards issued by EDI UK at NVQ Level 4
3. CCELT Accreditation Certificate with Teacher Status at: Entrant, Associate or Senior Level
