Each EFL method we show you, we’ll get you to do, so you can feel your confidence building.
TEFL TESOL is about knowing and naming the tools you use every day to communicate and
understanding how you use them.
Our TEFL training course goes forward in steps you can digest and integrate before you move on.
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The English language is now Britain's second largest export. Teaching English abroad is a good way of paying your way to visit many countries and encounter their cultures. To do this, you need to get a TEFL qualification. This will either come under the name TEFL - Teaching English as a Foreign Language - or TESOL - Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. TEFL courses vary in length and depth. Some providers only give a sketchy training, and are basically selling travel services. Others aim at equipping you to do a complete job. The best TEFL or TESOL courses are academically accredited, and give a qualification recognised all over the world.
The most expensive courses involve four or five weeks of full-time study, and cost around £1,000. Others work by a mix of direct teaching and correspondence. Some are complete distance learning courses, supplemented with demonstrations on video or DVD. The best ones also offer a period of teaching practice and class observation.
TEFL Training provides all of these elements: a weekend TEFL course which trains you practically in communicative language teaching; an 80-hour correspondence follow-up to practise lesson planning, grammar points etc.; and a week's teaching practice in a good school. You can fit the parts in to suit yourself, and the total cost of all three is barely half that of a full-time course. It enables you to get a complete TEFL / TESOL course part by part in a way you can afford, and fit it into a busy lifestyle.
You can do your TEFL training in different ways: An introductory weekend TEFL course with will direct TEFL tutor contact and a chance to meet other TEFL Training students and then add on the TEFL Training follow through self study course and our TEFL work experience week. The other way is to do our 100 hour full distance learning TEFL course and add on the TEFL teaching practice. Some students choose to do just the weekend TEFL course to find out if teaching English as a foreign language is something for them, simply as TEFL taster course.
What is meaning of TEFL and TESOL? These are not qualifications in themselves: they are simply acronyms for basically the same thing: Teaching English as a Foreign Language or Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. TEFL was English in origin, and refers more to going abroad to teach; TESOL was American, and applied to teaching students who had come there from other countries. Both are equally valid. - Our courses can be both described as TEFL courses or TESOL courses, and the correspondence study as TEFL distance learning course or TESOL distance training course. Whatever TEFL or TESOL course you choose in the end, you will be teaching English to speakers of other languages or people to whom English is a foreign language.
What matters is the quality of the specific TEFL or TESOL course you are taking. Our 100 hour TEFL Training programme has academic accreditation from the College of Teachers and leads up to the Certificate of Educational Studies (TESOL).
We offer advice on teaching English both in the UK and abroad and will give you a list of TEFL job contacts once you have completed the weekend TEFL course.
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