Online TESOL 250 hours: accredited

Enrol on one of the most advanced online TESOL courses possible online and enjoy world-class training and prestigous certification.

This course will take you from beginner to expert, covering essential TESOL class elements in depth. It also includes 100 hours on linguistics and phonetics which few other courses touch on. Stand out from the crowd with  superior level training and certification.

Ideal if:

* you want the best possible online TESOL training

* you want more tutor interaction and feedback 

* you want a certificate to impress employers and to stand out from other courses

* you want the reassurance of studying with one of the UK's most established online TESOL providers

This 7 module course assumes no prior knowledge but will lead you through the essentials step-by-step helping you to get to grips with advanced TESOL methods and techniques.

Module 1

- Thinking about teaching

          - What makes a good teacher ?

          - Motivation

          - What is TESOL ?

- Language Awareness Assessment

- Lesson Planning and Staging

- Reasons for Learning English

          - Young Learners

          - Adults

- Materials 1

          - Choosing Materials

          - Course books

- Teaching the Basic Skills 1

          - Reading

- Teaching Grammar 1- the Present Tense

          - The Present Simple

          - Teaching the verb 'to be'

          - The Present Continuous

- Exam Question

Module 2

- Classroom Management 1

          - Classroom Layout + Warmers

          - Classroom Planning

          - Preparation and Setting Objectives

          - Homework and Discipline

          - Groupwork and Pairwork

- Teaching the Basic Skills 2

          - Controlled and Semi-controlled Writing

          - Free Practice Writing

          - Teaching Vocabulary 1

          - Approaches to Vocabulary Lessons

          - Storage and Retrieval

- Teaching Grammar 2- the Past Tense

          - the Past Simple

          - the Past Continuous

          - Regular and Irregular Verbs

          - Auxiliary Verbs

- Exam Question

Module 3

- Teaching the Basic Skills 3 - Listening

          - Listening Comprehension

          - Other Listening Ideas

          - Working with Video

- Teaching Grammar 3 - the Future

          - Making Predictions

          - Plans and Intentions

          - Instant Decisions

          - Future Facts

          - Making Arrangements

- Teaching Grammar 3 - Passives

- Teaching Functional English

          - Requests and Offers

          - Permission

          - Obligation and Advice

          - Suggestions

- Classroom Management 2

          - Spoken and Written Correction

          - Testing

          - Classroom Sensitivity

- The world of EFL/Career Advice

          - Getting your first Job

- Exam Question

Module 4

- Teaching the Basic Skills 4 - Speaking and Pronunciation

          - Giving Instructions

          - Consensus Seeking Activities

          - Role-play

-  Pronunciation

          - Stress and Intonation

- Teaching Grammar 4 - the Perfect Tenses

          - The Present Perfect

          - The Past Perfect

          - The Future Perfect

- Teaching Grammar 4 - the Conditionals

- Teaching Vocabulary 2

          - Prefixes and Suffixes

          - Antonyms and Synonyms

- Confidence in the Classroom

          - Teaching Your First Lesson

- Teaching Exam classes

- Exam Questions

Module 5

- Introduction to Speech Production

- Speech Production Mechanisms

- How we Articulate Sounds

- Voiced and Unvoiced Consonants

- The Tongue

- The Glottis and the Glottal Stop

- Phonology

- Points of Articulation

- Manner of Articulation

- Vowels

- Cardinal Vowels

- Long and Short Vowels in English

- Diphthongs     

- Stress

- Sentence Stress

- Elision

- Strong and Weak Forms

- Tone, Pitch and Intonation

- Functions of Intonation

- Assimilations

- Liaison (Juncture)

- Sentence Stress and Rhythm

- Summary         

- Bibliography

MODULE 6

- Linguistics, an introduction

- A Brief History of Linguistics

- History of Language Teaching

- Grammar / Translation Method

- Direct or Natural Method

- Functional Approach

- Communicative Approach                                                                        

- Morphology, Syntax, Lexis, Semantics and Etymology

- Sociolinguistics

- Multilingual Speech Communities

- Language Variation

- Register

- Diglossia

- Code Switching

- Language and Power

- Applied Linguistics

- Applied Linguistics and Pragmatics

- How can languages best be learned and taught?

- How can technology be used?                

- Language Acquisition and Development

- Nature vs. Nurture

- Acquisition or Learning?

- Corpus Linguistics

- Summary         

- Bibliography