What is TEFL?

TEFL refers to teaching English to students whose first language is not English.  There are other terms that are often used to refer to TEFL, but they do not always mean the same thing. TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) and TESL  (Teaching English as a second Language) are two such terms, but are different to TEFL in that students may be living in an English speaking country or a country where English is a major language and are learning English as a second language.

TEFL is usually taught at state schools, private language schools and in private lessons in non-English speaking countries. TEFL also takes place in English speaking countries, when students come from abroad and enroll at language schools for short courses

Admission Requirements

There is no minimum admission requirement, although learners need to have a good command of English. In countries such as Korea, Japan and Taiwan teachers need to have a Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline or an Associate’s Degree accompanied by a TEFL/TESOL certificate.

Who should attend

The aim of the programme is to prepare learners for teaching if they have never taught before. This will be extremely important when they first start teaching in a foreign country. Besides needing the qualification to get a job, they will have to deal with a different culture and try to find their feet for the first couple of months, so learning how to teach will be an added pressure. Most language schools do not provide teacher training and will expect one to know how to teach English and what to do in the classroom (and how to deal with different levels of English).Most importantly, getting a TEFL certificate is the first stage in becoming a professional TEFL teacher. Better paying jobs require the teacher to have a TEFL certificate.  

Certification

There are numerous TEFL courses available, so choosing a course can be very confusing. At present there is no international organization that accredits TEFL qualifications. In general, employers will accept most types of four-week, 100 hour TEFL certificates. English Access is a City & Guilds approved centre, which is the largest qualification provider in Britain.

Programme Outline

• TEFL/TESOL  methodology and approaches
• Presentation, practice and Correction of language
• Testing language as communication
• Lesson planning and classroom management
• Teaching using music, games and drama
• Using textbooks and ELT materials
• Teacher development
• Lesson observation and teaching practice
• Roles of teacher and student

More specifically, learners, will have the knowledge and understanding  of:

• Why people learn languages- reasons for learning a language and keys to success. Factors affecting motivation
• How language learning occurs in native speakers, what  native speakers know and how that knowledge comes about
• Language learning theories, approaches and methods
• The teaching process, presentations and explanations
• Teaching vocabulary- microteaching lessons
• Using games, songs and drama
• Teaching listening-  listening microteaching lesson
• Teaching reading- reading microteaching lesson
• Lesson planning, visual aids and testing
• Sing video and internet
• Classroom management
• Course material evaluation
• Present tenses- review and overview and how to teach them
• Past tenses- review and overview and how to teach them
• The future- review and overview
• Modals: must and have to, needn’t, don’t have to, and mustn’t- review and overview
• Linking and ‘hot’ verbs- review and overview
• Passives- review and overview
• Questions- review and overview
• Verbs, gerunds, participles and verb patterns- review and overview
• Reporting- review and overview
• Nouns and compounds- review and overview
• Articles, determiners and quantifiers- review and overview
• Relative and other clauses- review and overview
• Pronouns, substitution, leaving out words and inversions- review and overview
• Adjectives, adverbs and conjunctions- review and overview
• Prepositions- review and overview

Level of the programme

This Certificate is at NQF Level 4.

Duration and Times

The course has a duration of 4 weeks (100 hours)

Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings 18h00 – 21h00. Saturdays 09h00 – 16h00.