American TESOL Institute, Bangkok:
American TESOL Institute, Bangkok provides a comprehensive 3-week / 120-hour TESOL English teacher training course in the heart of Thailand's capital city.
Standardized TESOL English Teacher Training Certificate Course:
- Duration: 3-weeks / 120-hours
In order to stand eligible as a TESOL trainee, all you need to be within the age of 21-45 years, a native English speaker with a bachelor degree (in any field) as qualification.
Our intensive in-class TESOL Certification program is followed by 4-5 months of ESL job program. The international level of TESOL training implants within the prospective ESL teachers, including all the fundamental TEFL techniques. Course modules include:
- Language Background:
The session comprises Grammar and Phonology. Grammar includes awareness of the basics of English Grammar and how to teach Grammar, while Phonology covers stress, rhythm, intonation and speech organs.
- Learning a Foreign Language:
This session helps the trainee understand what helps and hinders the language learning process, and what it feels like to be in a language learner's shoes.
- Teaching Techniques:
- Classroom Management
- Communicative ways
- Context and Language Modelling
- Looking at Errors
- Music in the classroom
- Teaching Listening
- Teaching Reading
- Teaching Writing
- Teaching Young Learners
- Theatre in the Classroom
- Tuning In (Warmers)
- Use of games and projects
- Teaching Observation:
Trainees observe 2 live English teaching sessions, and write reports on them.
- Teaching Practice:
Teacher trainees have 6 teaching practice classes which are observed by trainers.
Assessment and Evaluation:
The evaluation and the assessment process is based on the performances in the in-class teaching practice, as well as the written assignments in the form of foreign language journal and the grammar & phonology assignment.