The International TEFL Corporation:
The International TEFL Corporation is a professional training organization dedicated to raising standards of teaching and professionalism in EFL. We are the market leader in providing high quality, value for money courses along with all possible support. No other TEFL company can offer the same variety of services.
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TITC, in conjunction with TEFL International, provides internationally recognized TESOL/TEFL certificate courses in a wide variety of exotic and interesting locations. Our 4-week, intensive
courses meet all international standards and are externally validated and moderated by the BOAA (Board of Academic Advisors). You can be assured of the highest standards and quality wherever and whenever you take our course.
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. 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.
3. 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.
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 including 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. Each set must be durable, capable of being used for more than one lesson context and easily portable. The materials may include visuals, realia, 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, available in the above 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.
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.