TESOL / TEFL Certification in Japan / Tokyo

International TEFL & TESOL Training, Tokyo:
International TEFL & TESOL Training is a professional training organization dedicated to raising standards of teaching and professionalism in the EFL industry. We provide a 4-week internationally-accredited TEFL certificate course in Tokyo, Japan, as well as in a wide variety of other locations worldwide (we also offer online courses).

TESOL / TEFL Certificate Course:
- Duration: 4-weeks, in-class

Our intensive TEFL training courses run over four weeks and include 120+ hours of instruction, covering input on grammar awareness, teaching skills and classroom management.

The course also includes 6 hours of trainer observed and constructively critiqued teaching practice where the student gains real time classroom experience, with genuine students of the English language, all under the watchful eye of our teacher trainers. The course is divided into six main areas:

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.

Language Awareness
a) This area focuses on grammar and covers word classes, simple sentence elements, complex sentences and clauses, aspect and conditionals and modals, verb time and tense, 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.

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.

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.

Teaching Techniques
This component of the course covers areas such as:
- Classroom management
- Correction techniques
- Creating materials
- Discipline in the classroom
- Establishing rapport
- Evaluation and testing
- Games in the classroom
- Lesson planning
- Managing equipment and teaching aids
- Songs in the classroom
- Teaching beginner students
- Teaching business English
- Teaching grammar
- Teaching individual students
- Teaching productive skills (speaking and writing)
- Teaching receptive skills (reading and listening)
- Teaching vocabulary
- Teaching young learners

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).

Graduation:
Upon completion of our TEFL training, you will receive an internationally recognized TEFL certificate, authorizing you to teach English as a foreign language anywhere in the world. For further information on our TEFL course in Japan, please e-mail us via our Contact Page.