Text-and-talk Academy:
Established 1991, Text-and-Talk Academy has trained more than 1,000,000 Thai students at our school, in private and government schools, in companies, in international schools and universities. We use professional trained teachers only and are located in Bangkok, Phuket, Pattaya and Chiangmai, Thailand.
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We offer a wide range of courses, covering first courses for newcomers to TEFL all the way to our Advanced Skills Course available only to qualified TEFL graduates. Whatever your previous level of training, we have a course for you!
- 4-Week Certificate Course; 6-Week Certificate Course
These courses are taught in five modules:
Module One: Teacher Orientation: Course Description, Requirements, Objectives and Benefits.
Module Two: The Need for Grammatical Knowledge by the EFL Teacher; and What's in the Books? Practice in Finding and Teaching the Grammatical Skills and Structure of EFL Dialogs.
Module Three: Thai Problems in Learning English: Insightful Consideration of Differences between Thai and English as the Origin of Many Learning Problems.
Module Four, Unit 1: How Students Learn – Preparing the Environment.
Module Four, Unit 2: Successful Lesson Planning.
Module Four, Unit 3: Effective classroom techniques.
Module Five: English Grammar in Communications: An Important "Portrait Summary" for EFL Instructors, with Special Emphasis on Asian Learner Group Need.
Module Six: Teaching in the "Real World": Practical Tips, Guidelines and Readings to Ensure Success in EFL Teaching.
- 4-Week Diploma Course
A TEFL Diploma Course after the Certificate Course, and is concerned with teacher development. In other words, it is designed to help already-trained teachers to improve and continue to improve and grow throughout their entire careers, in terms of teaching methods, techniques and cutting edge knowledge. It focuses teachers on how to improve, what techniques other teachers use and how successful these are, and on what new teaching discoveries have made that can be applied to one's own students.
Other courses offered:
- 2-Week TEYL Course
- 2-Week Advanced Skills Course
- Home Study Course
- Upgrade & Refresher Course