TEFL / TESOL Courses in Beijing, China

International TEFL and TESOL Training, Beijing:
International TEFL and TESOL Training (ITTT) offers an intensive 4 - week TEFL course in Beijing, China that provides participants with an internationally recognized certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. The course has a very practical emphasis and features a high proportion of actual teaching practice hours in the classroom. Our TEFL school is located in the Haidain district of Beijing, just south of Beijing University and only steps away from the Summer Palace and the Great Wall. All of the teaching resources needed are provided, and the school is well equipped, offering large classrooms along with the computer and internet resources needed for a suitable learning environment.

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.

The TEFL International English teaching course (TEFL/TESOL) is world-renowned, and equips you for the professional task of teaching English overseas, or in your home country. Our English teaching courses last for four weeks in a variety of exciting sites around the world, and have a very practical emphasis. 

Our courses meet all international standards and are externally validated and moderated by the BOAA (Board of Academic Advisors). English is the only language used in the classroom. 

The TEFL 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. Teaching Techniques:
This component of the course covers areas such as:
* Lesson planning
* Managing equipment and teaching aids
* Establishing rapport
* Classroom management
* Discipline in the classroom
* 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

5. 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.

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.

Mandarin Chinese Language Course (Optional extra):
Should you want to learn some Mandarin Chinese during your time in China, you could attend a language program either before or after your TEFL course.

This TEFL course / language program offers you the opportunity to become TEFL qualified with an internationally recognized TEFL certificate and immerse yourself in the local culture, improving your language skills. Language courses start most Mondays, and are available for two, four and eight weeks.

For further information on our TEFL / TESOL certificate courses in Beijing, please contact us quickly via our Contact Page.