The International TEFL Corporation:
The International TEFL Corporation (TITC), in conjunction with TEFL International, provides internationally recognized TESOL/TEFL certificate courses in a wide variety of exotic and interesting locations, including Chiang Mai, 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.
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Our TEFL courses are intensive, four-week programs, however all trainees have sufficient time to explore the local area, experience the culture and meet new people. While our courses are demanding, we do everything within our power to encourage TEFL students to pass the course and to promptly acquire a teaching job abroad
Our course content remains the same everywhere and does not vary with location. 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. 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.
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; these will include a transcription and error analysis of audio and written samples, culminating in a 60-minute session observed by a trainer.
4. 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.
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. 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. You will present these materials to a course trainer and demonstrate how they were used, suggest how they can be improved and how they could be used in another context.
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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