The International TEFL Corporation:
The International TEFL Corporation (TITC) is a professional training organization dedicated to raising standards of teaching and professionalism in EFL.
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The International TEFL Corporation provides internationally recognized TESOL/TEFL certificate courses in a wide variety of exotic and interesting locations, including Ban Phe, Thailand. 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 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
- Establishing rapport
- Discipline in the classroom
- Classroom management
- Managing equipment and teaching aids
- Creating materials
- Evaluation and testing
- Correction techniques
- Teaching receptive skills (reading and listening)
- Teaching productive skills (speaking and writing)
- Teaching vocabulary
- Teaching grammar
- Games in the classroom
- Songs in the classroom
- Teaching beginner students
- Teaching individual students
- Teaching young learners
- Teaching business English
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.
Sign up for any one of our TEFL International 4-week residential courses 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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