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. TITC welcomes all applications, regardless of gender, age, race or country. The only requirements are a proficient level of English and the ability to adapt to new ideas.
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TITC, in conjunction wit
h 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. The course includes more than 120 hours of study with an emphasis on practical content in the form of observed teaching practice hours with groups and individual students.
Sign up for any one of our TEFL International 4-week residential courses, 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.
Whilst the timetable of the TEFL Certificate course may vary slightly from location to location, the content will always remain the same. It 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 managemen
- Correction techniques
- Evaluation and testing
- Establishing rapport
- Discipline in the classroom
- Managing equipment and teaching aids
- Creating materials
- Teaching beginner students
- Teaching individual students
- Teaching business English
- Teaching young learners
- Teaching vocabulary
- Teaching grammar
- Teaching receptive skills (reading and listening)
- Teaching productive skills (speaking and writing)
- Games in the classroom
- Songs in the classroom
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.