TESOL Training and Certification

The objective of the TESOL course is to prepare individuals who are interested in traveling to other countries to teach English as a foreign language. This course will provide attendees the skills needed to teach conversational English in a classroom setting. Course attendees will be required to pass both written and practical assessments. On successful completion of this course and the assessments, attendees will be issued a TESOL Certification.

Course Outline

Course Timeline: 100 hours total course time.
• 60 hours Instructor led classroom
• 40 hours Self-Paced education

Instructor-Led Course ‘Success in English Teaching’
• Introduction – a general approach to teaching English
• Presenting new language items
• Organizing language practice
• Handling vocabulary
• Developing spoken communication skills
• Developing written communication skills
• Review and remedial work
• Planning and managing classes
• Working with a coursebook
• Teaching aids and materials
• Testing and evaluation
• Development in teaching English
• ESL Job Searching
• Professional Interviewing

Self-Paced Education
• Pre-reading course material
• Self-Paced course - Understanding and Using English Grammar
• Professional resume development and job searching

Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is an approach to the teaching of second and foreign languages that emphasizes interaction as both the means and the ultimate goal of learning a language. It is also referred to as “communicative approach to the teaching of foreign languages” or simply the “Communicative Approach”.

CLT also places great emphasis on helping students use the target language in a variety of contexts and places great emphasis on learning language functions. Its primary focus is on helping learners create meaning rather than helping them develop perfectly grammatical structures or acquire native-like pronunciation. This means that successfully learning a foreign language is assessed in terms of how well learners have developed their communicative competence, which can loosely be defined as their ability to apply knowledge of both formal and sociolinguistic aspects of a language with adequate proficiency to communicate.

Communicative Language Teaching is usually characterized as a broad approach to teaching, rather than as a teaching method with a clearly defined set of classroom practices. As such, it is most often defined as a list of general principles or features. One of the most recognized of these lists is David Nunan’s (1991) five features of CLT:
1. An emphasis on learning to communicate through interaction in the target language.
2. The introduction of authentic texts into the learning situation.
3. The provision of opportunities for learners to focus, not only on language but also on the learning process itself.
4. An enhancement of the learner’s own personal experiences as important contributing elements to classroom learning.
5. An attempt to link classroom language learning with language activities outside the classroom.