Tefl Course Length

If you have been researching TEFL certification you will undoubtedly be aware that there are many different options on offer, with a wide range of training hours mentioned. Unfortunately, as there is little standardization within the TEFL world, individual course providers are at liberty to provide any format of training they see fit which can often make it confusing for potential trainees. So within this environment, how do you know which course is right for you? The first thing to consider is what do you want to achieve with your TEFL qualification? One ever-growing opportunity is to spend some time helping others in a developing part of the world by volunteering as an EFL teacher. In many areas there is a huge demand for qualified teachers to provide English language instruction that...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chaganhuyuchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Songyuan Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. there are for basic skills in any language Receptive which is reading and listening and Productive skills which are speaking and writing. all are equally important and must incorporate all four while teaching. Normally people read or listen for a purpose or for entertainment. For reading and writing we need ears and eyes as well as our mind to understand what we...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Taojiatun Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Siping Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. The four basic skills in any language include reading and listening (receptive) and speaking and writing (productive). Unit 11 focuses on the receptive skills. We learn about various reasons for reading and listening, for a purpose and for entertainment. We also learn how it can be a mix of both. The next part of learning in this unit is about the way people read...  [Read more]

Although this is a common question, it is hard to answer as it depends on which course you choose to take. There are a wide variety of TEFL courses available, both online and in-class, and some that are a mixture of the two, and every one has its own average completion time. At ITTT we have developed a range of TEFL course options of varying length, difficulty, and study method to ensure there is something to suit every individual situation. TEFL courses are typically classified by the average number of hours they take to complete and if you look online you will find some courses advertised at around 50 hours or even less. If you have no other commitments and are able to study every day, it would be possible to finish this type of course in less than a week. However, it is worth noting...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in YuanjiApu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yueyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Reading and listening skills are called receptive skills. They are vital in communication which is the prime aim of language learning and are part of the literacy skills. They also form the base on which the other two literacy skills – writing and speaking are built. Reading and listening are called receptive skills as they are used to receive information namely...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Guoying Linchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Songyuan Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This Unit discusses the receptive skills as reading and listening. The reasons and motives for reading and listening are for a purpose - in order to achieve a particular goal or for entertainment - in order to do something we enjoy. It is stated that we should not only read and listen with out eyes and ears, but our mind should be able to grasp words`overall...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Changling Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Songyuan Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This topic is prevalent in all aspects of learning. Oftentimes, if it is a topic one is genuinely interested in, then they will retain it quicker, and for a longer length of time. This lesson was a good reminder, that, as teachers, we need to look for many topics for our students to read and listen to. We should not expect them to only read what we enjoy. In...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Ningyuan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Anshan Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. there are two main receptive skills : listening and reading. reading and listening can be for entertainment or for a purpose. types of reading:-detailed reading -scanning(specific informations) -skimming(general overview) -prediction -deduction some reading problems:-reading word for word -sentence length -structure some listening problems:-flow of information...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shibi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Nanchang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. In this unit we are shown the importance of a lesson plan and how to properly make a lesson plan (if you wish to make a formal plan), we are also given an example plan to see what a completed lesson plan looks like. This unit is very helpful as it shows how important it is to be prepared. You need to know the length (more or less) of the activity and each phase so...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tanggangzi Muchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Anshan Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Receptive skills There are two receptive skills: listening and reading. There are two main reasons why we read and listen. 1. For entertainment. 2. For a purpose. Reading subskills are prediction, deduction, skimming, scanning, detailed reading. Problems for reading skills are: • reading word for word • sentence length • structure Problems for listening...  [Read more]

Deciding which TEFL course suits your individual learning style, your current situation and your future plans can be difficult as there is no standard length of training or a fixed syllabus that providers have to adhere to. The best advice we can give is don't simply choose the cheapest or the first option you come across as it may not be suitable for your needs. You should spend time researching what employers expect from job applicants in the countries where you would like to work, as well as any official requirements for work permits and visas etc. Finally you should also research the course provider to ensure they have a good reputation amongst their graduates. The overall length of the course is a good place to start. There are many providers who offer short format online courses of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hongqiao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Taizhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. There are multiple components involved in building a successful teaching career. Being “successful,” in this context, generally involves having a lengthy career, enjoying it and, of course, being a highly effective educator and good influence on your students. These three components and how to achieve them are discussed in the following short essay. Managing to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Geputan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiaogan Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Peculiarities in the English language can be quite difficult and challenging to explain to students, but are certainly very rewarding. If we look at the word “Peace” – in English this word could refer to “peace between family, neighbors and friends” or it could mean “peace of mind” or “peace and quiet” etc. We also have the same word spoken in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Longjin Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Nanchang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. In this lesson I learned that effective lesson planning incorporates the three lesson phases Engage, Study and Activate, and activities associated with each lesson. I also learned that it is difficult to gauge how long an activity may take in lieu of teaching experience. I also learned that learner objectives, personal objectives, and anticipated problems on behalf...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dongdongtinghu Guanweihui? Are you interested in teaching English in Yueyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. What I understand by 'Materials' When I think of materials in terms of English Second Language (ESL) teaching, I think of a broad range of items, from worksheets to pictures, flash cards to figurines, exercises, tests, and so on. To put 'materials' more in perspective, these are materials needed to deliver an ESL course. Why this topic? I have created...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GuabangshAn Linchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Yongzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. 1. Introduction 2. Advantages and Disadvantages of teaching kindergarten students and Teaching Methods for Kindergarten students 3. Creating a warm, familiar classroom environment 4. Personality of a Kindergarten Teacher 1. In the following essay I want to talk about teaching EFL in kindergarten and the possible advantages and disadvantages of it. In...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Masanjialaodongjiaoyangyuan? Are you interested in teaching English in Shenyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Unit 13 was about teaching pronunciation and phonology.It was a longer unit and covered quite a bit. Phonology is the study of the physical properties of sound. Intonation is the variation of pitch in a sentence, and stress is which syllable is stressed in a word or sentence. Stress and intonation help carry the meaning in a sentence. There are...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shaoguo Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changchun Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This lesson was by far, by it's nature, the most attention grabbing because it was a video and also because it gave an example of how a classroom should and should not function. I was able to take what I had learned in some of the previous lessons, and compare it to real life examples. One issue I had was the time length, and with my memory I had to go back and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiwei Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Siping Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit is highlighting on reading and listening. Here we come across four basic skills which arw important in English language:receptive(reading and listening) and productive (speaking and writing). Reasons for reading include entertainment and for a purpose. Reading and listening depends in areas like productive skills, specific information, general ideas or even...  [Read more]

If you are a full-time student or employee, figuring out when you will fit a brand new 120-hour TEFL certification into your schedule can be difficult (especially if you are looking at completing it on-site overseas). The good news is that you can take as long as you want to get your TEFL certification. Structured on-site TEFL courses have start and end dates, so determining how long it will take to complete a TEFL course is as simple as determining the program dates. However, our 120-hour TEFL course can be completed entirely online, thus giving you all the flexibility you need to make it happen on your own terms. As this course is self-paced, it really depends on your own personal learning style and the amount of spare time you have available to study. As a general guideline, the typical...  [Read more]

In order to be a regular subject teacher in a state school in most countries throughout the world a teaching degree is required. Such degrees are usually three or four years of study dedicated to gaining subject knowledge and teaching skills. The same two areas are covered in any TEFL or TESOL certification course, the timeframe however is greatly reduced. Typically a course may take 120-hours. The teaching of EFL is therefore fairly unique in that it offers you the opportunity to enter the teaching profession in a very short time, compared to the regular teacher training process. There are a number of ways in which TEFL certification can be obtained and these fall into three different categories. Online courses: As the name implies these courses are done via a computer or similar device....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tuanfeng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huanggang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Several types of research have been conducted the researches regarding the effectiveness of the use of storytelling as a pedagogical strategy. According to a study conducted by Muritirani and Izzah, researchers studied the power of storytelling in teaching English to young learners. Below is the summary of mentioned interesting research which is done in 2015 in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Niuxinding Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Tonghua Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Receptive skills include reading and listening. Lessons need to have a balanced approach of reading, writing, listening and speaking. Motives for listening and reading can differ depending on the situation. The two main reasons are for a purpose; when reading/listening takes place to achieve some particular aim or for entertainment; when we listen/read...  [Read more]

EFL stands for English as a Foreign Language and is to almost all purposes the same as ESL, English as a Second Language. These two are also equivalent to ESOL which means, English to Speakers of Other Languages. For each of these terms, when we talk about the teaching of them, we add a ‘T’ to the front of each acronym and hence we arrive at the terms TEFL, TESL and TESOL. As they are basically the same we will refer to just one from here on, TEFL for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language and EFL for English as a Foreign Language. Almost all TEFL teaching positions require a minimum qualification of a 100 to 120-hour TEFL certification. Courses provided to cover this certification are usually delivered by one of three methods, namely, onsite courses, online courses and combined...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in HuanghuAtang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huai'an Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Having the possibility to teach someone is having the possibility to change his/her life. In any language, there are four basic skills reading and listening as we call receptive skills, and writing and speaking as we call productive skills. But here, we will just talk about the receptive skills. We use receptive skills for entertainment, we use it when we can...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liuhao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Nantong Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Most teachers prefer teaching small classes, as they provide more opportunities to pay individual attention to each student and are usually easier to manage. However, due to limited resources and other reasons many English language classes around the world have more students than the teacher would prefer. When teaching large classes, especially large classes of young...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhoumensi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chenzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. What is Business English? The simplest definition of "business English" is English as it is used in the business world, e.g, in trade, commerce, and finance. It is a branch of ESP (English for Specific Purposes) because the combination of certain words, phrases, and politeness present in business English are specific to conducting business meetings, giving...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Cehuyangzhichang? Are you interested in teaching English in Huanggang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Everyone has an opinion on what makes a good teacher and you would probably get quite a variety of answers if you asked enough people. This is especially true if you asked people what are considered the most important personality traits a teacher should have. There are certain qualities that everyone will agree on when it comes to important qualities for a...  [Read more]

Navigating your way through the different TEFL certification options can be daunting. Luckily, we are here to shed some light on the different levels available for TEFL courses. The frameworks' general characteristics are often related to various factors, including the total number of hours spent studying, the certification type, if the program includes a practical component, and the method of study (full-time or part-time). A level 5 TEFL course is in the upper range of the framework, meaning it is among the more advanced TEFL certifications out there. A level 5 TEFL qualification is equivalent to a CELTA or Foundation Degree. This level is ideal for obtaining the top TEFL positions available. Whether online or abroad, better-paying TEFL jobs will be easier to find. A level 5...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Linhe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yinchuan Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. How to teach pronunciation? Phonology is the system of contrastive relationships among the speech sounds that constitute the fundamental components of a language. Intonation is variation in spoken pitch when used, not for distinguishing words as sememes (a concept known as tone), but, rather, for a range of other functions such as indicating the attitudes and...  [Read more]