TEFL / TESOL Certification in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

International TEFL and TESOL Training, Ho Chi Minh City:
International TEFL and TESOL Training (ITTT) offers an internationally-accredited, classroom-based TEFL certification program in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), Vietnam which provides participants with an internationally recognized certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language.

The ITTT 4 - week TEFL course in Ho Chi Minh City provides participants with an Internationally recognized certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. The course is externally validated and moderated by the BOAA (Board of Academic Advisors). You can be assured of the highest standards and quality whenever and wherever you take our course.

The course is intensive and has over 120 hours of study combined with a high proportion of actual teaching practice hours in the classroom. Whilst the course timetable may vary slightly from location to location, the content will always remain the same. 

The TEFL course is divided into six main areas:

1. Teaching Practice:
The most practical and fundamental area of any TEFL/TESOL course. Course trainees teach real students of English and put into practice the skills learnt on the course.

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

3. Language Awareness:
a) Grammar. Covers word classes, simple sentence elements, complex sentences and clauses, aspect and conditionals and modals, verb time and tense, phrasals and voice.
b) Phonology. Covers phonemics, rhythm and intonation, word stress and intonation, sentence stress and intonation and connected speech.

4. 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 including transcription and error analysis of audio and written samples, culminating in a 60-minute session observed by a trainer. 

5. Teaching Techniques:
This component of the course covers areas such as:

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

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

Trainees are required to adapt 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 (e.g for vocabulary as well as grammar).

Sign up for our 4-week course in Ho Chi Minh City, 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.