The International TEFL Corporation:
The International TEFL Corporation's 4-week TEFL course in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica, provides participants with an internationally recognized certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. The course has a very practical emphasis and features a high proportion of actual teaching practice hours in the classroom. The course is externally validated and moderated by the BOAA (Board of Academic Advisors).
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TITC TEFL Certification
Internationally recognized 4-week TEFL Certificate c
ourse externally validated and moderated by IATQUO (The International Association of TESOL Qualifying Organizations). TITC courses have a very practical emphasis and deal primarily with the real skills and knowledge needed by teachers in the classroom. Whilst the course timetable may vary slightly from location to location, the content will always remain the same.
The TEFL course is divided into six main areas:
1. Teaching Practice
The most practical and fundamental area of any TEFL/TESOL course. Course trainees teach real students of English and put into practice the skills learnt on the course.
2. Language Awareness
a) Grammar. Covers word classes, simple sentence elements, complex sentences and clauses, verb time and tense, aspect and conditionals and modals, phrasals and voice.
b) Phonology. Covers phonemics, word stress and intonation, sentence stress and intonation, rhythm and intonation, and connected speech.
3. 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 including transcription and error analysis of audio and written samples, culminating in a 60-minute session observed by a trainer.
4. Teaching Techniques
This component of the course covers areas such as:
- Lesson planning
- Classroom management
- Establishing rapport
- Managing equipment and teaching aids
- Discipline in the classroom
- Creating materials
- Correction techniques
- Evaluation and testing
- Teaching receptive skills (reading and listening)
- Teaching productive skills (speaking and writing)
- Teaching vocabulary
- Teaching grammar
- Songs in the classroom
- Games in the classroom
- Teaching individual students
- Teaching beginner students
- Teaching business English
- Teaching young learners
5. 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.
6. Materials Project
All trainees must develop two sets of materials used during the teaching practice. Each set must be durable, capable of being used for more than one lesson context and easily portable. The materials may include visuals, audio or video tape, cue cards and class handouts, but may not be photocopied from published sources.
Trainees are required to adapt from commercial sources, or develop original materials. The summation of this project is a presentation to the trainers on how the materials were used, how they could be improved and how they might be used in another context.
Sign up for any one of our TEFL International 4-week residential courses, now available in 15 international locations worldwide 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.
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