The International TEFL Corporation:
The International TEFL Corporation is a professional training organization dedicated to raising standards of teaching and professionalism in EFL. TITC, in conjunction with TEFL International, provides internationally recognized TESOL/TEFL certificate courses in a wide variety of exotic and interesting locations, including Barcelona, Spain.
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Sign up for any one of our TEFL International 4-week residential courses, available in the above 15 international locations world
wide and receive an additional certificate course free of charge. You may choose from the following free courses: (a) Introduction to TEFL. (b) Teaching Business English. (c) Teaching English to Young Learners.
Our intensive TEFL training courses run over four weeks and include 120+ hours of instruction, covering input on grammar awareness, teaching skills and classroom management. Also included in the schedule is a very useful 6hrs of trainer observed and constructively critiqued teaching practice. Here you gain real time classroom experience, with genuine students of the English language, all under the watchful eye of our teacher trainers.
The course content remains the same everywhere and does not vary with location. It 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.
Combined Courses
These courses are ideal for those students who don't work to their best potential in intensive learning programs or for students who don't have 4 weeks to commit to an intensive course. They are only available at our Phuket, Rome & Barcelona training centres, and allow students to study the theoretical aspects of teaching & grammar etc online, followed by attendance at one of our training centers for teaching practise. The online element of the course can take between 2 weeks and 6 months to complete (depending how quickly you want/are able to work through the course) & comes with full online tutor support. Attendance at the training center is for 10 days.
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