TEFL Gulfcrest Alabama

Why take tefl course? (8): english is the second most widely spoken language with an estimated 508 million speakers from around the world. english is the official language of countries like New Zealand, the U.S., australia, england, Zimbabwe, the Caribbean, hong kong, South Africa, and canada. english is commonly spoken as second language in many countries such as philippines, Korea, Malaysia, Bangladesh Nigeria, Kenya, india, Singapore, Gulf countries etc. in context of official communication and administration. The demand for english language teaching is increasing day by day. Today ELT has become a competitive global industry so there is a need for standardized qualifications like tefl, tesol and TESL, CELTA. tefl (Teaching english as a Foreign Language) refers to a particular methodology for teaching people whose first language is not english. For e.g. teaching english to chinese people in china. tefl methodology is highly developed and offers the most up-to-date training courses. tefl trained teachers have good working knowledge of english grammatical and phonology systems, use a communicative approach and a student-centered style of teaching. The tefl courses are divided into two main areas - teaching skills and language awareness. In the teaching skills component the focus is on skills and techniques required for successful language teaching while the language awareness component gives a good working knowledge of english grammatical and phonology systems. There has always been a difference of opinion about which method and techniques to follow but the most effective method ESA (engage, study and activate) was put forward by Jeremy Harmer. The ESA approach gives a great deal of flexibility to the teacher to teach from simple to complex topics. In this method student's motivation, exposure to the language and practical usage in the classroom are of primary concern. In tefl courses teachers are trained to make their lessons as interesting and organized as possible using different activities like role-plays, surveys, debates, discussions, games etc. Another important aspect of tefl courses is lesson planning which helps the teachers in effectively teaching the concepts in a pre-planned way. teachers are also trained on different aspects like classroom management, effective use of different teaching aids, different ways of evaluating students' progress, teaching special groups, how to deal with common problem in classrooms like managing different levels, reluctant students, and large classes. I personally recommend tefl courses for all english teachers to learn valuable skills to make their teaching more effective, organized and interesting.