TEFL/TESOL Certification
Course Description
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The TEFLOnline.com core curriculum consists of 13 modules covering ESL/EFL teaching basics, video tutorials, open-book review quizzes, and written assignments for each module. Additional sections include a glossary of terms, a resource library for teachers, and a guide to getting a job overseas. Upon enrollment in TEFLOnline.com, you will be assigned your own personal tutor who will grade your assignments and help guide you through the course.
COURSE OUTLINE
Module 1: The Roles of the Teacher and Learner, Approaches and Methods
- Analyze the personal characteristics and habits of successful teachers and learners
- Categorize the roles played by teachers in a language classroom, such as organizer and facilitator
- Establish some preliminary recommendations for effective teaching strategies
- Categorize historic and current language instructional methodologies, such as Communicative Language Teaching, Audio-lingual Method and the Direct Method.
Module 2: Classroom Management
- Describe possible adaptations of the classroom environment to suit the learning activities
- Identify the characteristics of effective classroom instructions and strategies for checking for instructions
- Summarize the benefits of eliciting information from students rather than encouraging them to receive information passively
- Give examples of strategies for effectively prompting students and/or eliciting information from them
- Analyze and categorize errors and explain their usefulness in learning and teaching
- Indicate some of the advantages and disadvantages of using textbooks
- Describe some specific techniques to manage classrooms as effective workplaces for students and teachers.
Module 3: The Language Systems and Skills, History and Spelling of English
- Categorize English into language systems: vocabulary, grammatical structure, phonology, and function
- Categorize English into language skills: speaking, writing, listening, and reading
- Give examples of some strategies to integrate more than one skill in a language lesson and also include systems work
- Identify some highlights of the development of the modern English language
- Explain some of the challenges of spelling in English and the historical reasons for these challenges
Module 4: Acquiring a New Language
- Compare information from educational research to clear classroom strategies
- Describe key language terminology and concepts, such as comprehensible input, exposure, focus on form, metacognition, content and linguistic feedback, noticing, and implicit and explicit knowledge
- Identify the elements of a language analysis stage, including addressing meaning, phonology and form of target language points
- Apply study techniques to language learning through metacognitive strategies to promote student autonomy and success
Module 5: Testing for the EFL/ESL Student
- Explain the reasons for testing English language learners
- Identify some current placement, achievement, and proficiency tests
- Describe the different purposes for testing within an classroom
- Indicate the varied types of progress tests that can be developed by classroom teachers
Module 6: Culture and the EFL/ESL Classroom
- Use appropriate terminology to discuss culture’s impact, such as ethnocentrism, culture shock, country shock, enculturation, and deep and surface culture
- Examine the frequent interrelationship between aspects of deep culture, such as gender roles, and surface culture, such as wearing a certain style of clothing
- Group common behaviors that frequently vary between cultures, such as physical contact during greetings, and articulate potential adaptations needed
- Discover some strategies and tips to encourage the behaviors and attitudes that contribute to a successful teaching experience abroad
Module 7: The Receptive Skills, Listening and Reading
- Categorize language into various systems and skills to help focus on particular areas of language study
- Examine the purposes of studying reading and listening in a language classroom
- Formulate some effective lesson sequences or formats for strengthening reading and listening skills
- Propose some strategies and tips for the successful implementation of those lesson sequences.
Module 8: Productive Skills - Speaking and Writing
- Classify language into various systems and skills to help focus on particular areas of language study
- Examine the purposes of studying speaking and writing in a language classroom
- Identify student-centered speaking activities
- Formulate some effective lesson sequences for strengthening speaking and writing skills
- Propose some strategies and tips for the successful implementation of those lesson sequences
Module 9: Teaching Vocabulary, Meaning and Context
- Discuss many aspects of vocabulary study including meaning, connotation, denotation, collocation, register, spelling, part of speech, and pronunciation.
- Describe how to establish a context and clarify a word’s meaning, form, and function.
- Identify elements of an effective language focus stage to teach vocabulary
- Propose some strategies and tips for eliciting words and checking word meaning.
Module 10: Teaching Grammar
- Distinguish between the rules of formal English – prescriptive grammar – and the common usages that learners will encounter – descriptive grammar
- Identify some basic building block terms of grammar, such as parts of speech, verb tenses, clauses, modals, conditional forms, and passive voice.
- Assess his or her current level of grammar expertise
- Indicate effective elements of a language focus stage, one stage in an effective grammar lesson
- Propose some strategies and tips for the successful implementation of those elements
Module 11: The Phonology of English, Teaching Pronunciation and the Phonemic Script
- Identify the elements of phonology, including pronunciation of phonemes, sound and symbol correlation and disconnection, word and sentence stress, and intonation patterns
- Distinguish between a phoneme and a letter Bridge Proprietary Page 5
- Describe a situation where use of the phonemic script would be useful in the ESL classroom
- Give examples of some specific strategies, such as working with minimal pairs, that can support students’ progress in phonology
- Examine phonology activities and games that can provide practice opportunities.
Module 12: Planning Lessons
- Examine some of the reasons for lesson planning
- Outline the components that thorough plans should include
- Define the qualities that make lesson objectives student-centered and measurable
- Review and analyze sample lesson plans as models and examples
Module 13: Visual Aids, Activities and Games & CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning)
- Identify the varied high and low technology visual aids that are useful in supporting language instruction
- Examine how activities and games can be adapted to provide meaningful stages of English lessons
- Develop effective suggestions on designing and implementing video and computer enhanced lessons
الشروط والأحكام
- سيعقد البرنامج التدريبي في مكان محدد مسبقًا.
- يُطلب إيداع مبلغ عند الحجز من قبل الأفراد.
- يجب دفع أي رصيد متبقي قبل بدء الدورة.
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