Diploma in Teaching TESOL
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Course Overview
Whilst most of our courses are accessible to learners from all backgrounds, the Professional TESOL Diploma has a number of entry requirements: you must have a high school certificate as well as a high level of English (absolute minimum requirement: C1). You must have an excellent understanding of English grammar as well as use of English, and be fluent in written and spoken English. If you need to improve your English skills before admission to this course, we recommend you take our online English course at level C1 or C2 in order to prepare yourself for this course.
Course aims
This course is designed to equip ESL teachers from around the world to teach English professionally and successfully. It is a very academic course designed for teachers who wish to enhance their qualification portfolio with an Advanced Diploma.
Course content
The course is divided into different Modules and you are required to submit assignments, a mini-thesis and lesson presentations (practicum).
- Language Teaching Methods: Definition
- Structural Methods
- Interactive Methods
- Functional Methods
- Proprietary Methods
- Modern Classroom Setup & Teaching Environment
- Common European Framework of Language Reference
- Teaching Reading
- Teaching Writing
- Teaching Listening
- Teaching Speaking
- Teaching Grammar
- Teaching Vocabulary
- Building blocks for teaching vocabulary
- Teaching Phonetics
- Coursebooks & Textbooks
- Lesson Planning
- Using Materials and Teaching Aids
- Classroom Management
- Special and additional needs
- Teaching Young Learners, Teenagers and Adults
- Introduction to NLP
- Multiple Intelligences
- Assessment
- Cultural Training
- Assignments