TEFL / TESOL course in Singapore

British Education Centre, Singapore:
British Education Centre, located in in the centre of Singapore, is a respected TESOL/TEFL training centre. Our resources have been built up to a high level since we started delivering the London Teacher Training College Diploma in TESOL programme in 2008. Our academic standards are based primarily on the British education system and its national quality standards; we also operate under the quality regulations of the Singapore Government Council for Private Education. We have an Academic Board to help us to maintain high academic standards.

Diploma in TESOL
Awarded by London Teacher Training College, UK
Course Aims
1. To understand how language is acquired
2. To understand what constitutes error in language acquisition
3. To know the principles on which language teaching is based
4. To understand phonetics and phonology
5. To know which methodologies can be used to teach English
6. To know how to use materials and aids to teach English in the class
7. To know how to organise a class
8. To know how to design lesson plans

The course is taught with an exciting combination of lecture/workshop delivery, discussion, role-play, self-study and teaching development and practice.

Module 1, Language Theory
a. Nature of language
b. Varieties of English and teaching appropriate English
c. How the mother tongue and a second language are acquired
d. Methodologies for teaching English
e. Principles of language teaching

Module 2, Language Teaching Methodology
a. Teaching materials and aids
b. Teaching the language skills

Module 3, Classroom Planning and Organisation
a. The syllabus
b. Course materials
c. Roles of the teacher
d. Organising the class
e. Lesson planning

Module 4, Linguistics & Language Teaching
a. Phonetics and phonology
b. Meaning
c. Vocabulary
d. Grammar, Morphology, and Syntax
e. Error

Practicum
Teaching practice development and observation is followed by an assessed lesson with foreign students

Diploma in TESOL - School Procedures
We have experience of teaching plus administration in schools, large and small. This experience helps to bring an additional dimension to our LTTC Diploma in TESOL course, the working of a teacher within a school and the quality systems bearing on academic outcomes. The teacher-school interface can be complex and has to be managed by both academics and administration. Our course builds confidence in our trainees in knowing how teacher-school administration procedures should operate. Indeed, we hope many of our LTTC TESOL graduates will in due course go on to build their own education projects or open their own schools.

Advanced Certificate in Teaching IELTS (Asia)
Awarded by The TESOL College, UK
Course Aims
The aim of the course is to allow holders of TESOL/TEFL English teaching qualifications to extend their knowledge of the IELTS test and to become confident deliverers of courses preparing students for the test, particularly to Asian native and non-native speakers of English.
Course Structure
INTRODUCTION
    UNIT 1   THE IELTS TEST
    UNIT 2   STUDENTS AND COURSES
    UNIT 3   LISTENING
    UNIT 4   READING
    UNIT 5   WRITING
    UNIT 6   SPEAKING
    ASSIGNMENTS
    APPENDIX 1   RESOURCES
    APPENDIX 2   FURTHER READINGINTRODUCTION