TEFL / TESOL Certification Courses in China

International TEFL and TESOL Training, Zhuhai:
International TEFL and TESOL Training (ITTT) offers a 4 - week TEFL course in Zhuhai, China that provides participants with an internationally recognized certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. The city of Zhuhai is a clean, modern city adjacent to Macao and just across the Pearl River Delta from Hong Kong. Located on the southern coast of Guangdong province, Zhuhai is approximately a 2.5 hour flight from Beijing and a 1.5 hour flight from Shanghai.

TEFL / TESOL Certification Program:
The 4-week, intensive course meets all international standards and is 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 content of the course is the same regardless of the location even if the course timetable may differ slightly.

The TEFL Certificate Course is divided into six main areas:

1. Teaching Practice: 
This is the most practical and fundamental area of any TEFL/TESOL course. Course trainees teach real students of English and have the opportunity to put into practice the skills they have learned on the course.

2. Language Awareness:

Grammar:
Covers word classes, simple sentence elements, complex sentences and clauses, verb time and tense, aspect and conditionals and modals, phrasals and voice.

Phonology:
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 meetingswith the student are required including transcription and error analysis of audio and written samples, culminating in a 60-minute session observed by a trainer.

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

5. Foreign Language Experience:
The trainees receive training in an unknown foreign language. This allows them to reflect on the experience of being a learner, and how this might direct their own teaching.

6. Materials Project:
All trainees must develop two sets of materials used during the teaching practice. The materials may include visuals, realia, audio or video tape, cue cards and class handouts, but may not be photocopied from published sources. Each set must be durable, capable of being used for more than one lesson context (e.g. for grammar as well as vocabulary) and easily portable. Trainees are required to adapt materials 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.

Assessment:
Teachers are assessed on their understanding and practical application of the course content through teaching practice and the compilation of a teaching journal. Although these two are assessed separately, the final grade awarded amalgamates both sets of grades with a slight weighting towards teaching practice.

Sign up for any one of our TEFL International 4-week residential courses, available in over 30 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.