Tefl Course Syllabus

  Choosing a TEFL certification course can be a difficult decision as there is no standardized duration of training or a fixed syllabus for providers to adhere to. This seemingly free-for-all situation means there are a multitude of companies offering a wide range of courses of varying quality. The good news is there are several long established TEFL course providers out there who do offer high quality courses that provide all the skills and knowledge you need to start a new career as an EFL teacher. So what should you look for when choosing the right course for you? The overall length of the course is a good place to start. There are many providers who offer short format online courses of 40 hours or even less, as well as in-class courses that can be completed in one weekend...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tangyi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Liaocheng 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. Syllabus design is one of the most important thing while developing a course. My present summative work will be focusing on syllabus design for business English. In order to formulate a syllabus, a lot of factors have to be kept in mind. These include the purpose of course, present proficiency of the students in language, the field in which the students specialize...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tianxing Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dazhou 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 is about course development and consist in: - Level testing and needs analysis: - Level testing; - Level descriptions ( Starter, Elementary, Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper-intermediate) - Needs analysis; - Limiting factors: - Employer; - Time constraints; - Resources; - Cultural issues; - Students. - Syllabus design: - The structural syllabus; -...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas English is the widely used language in the world that used as an official language in a majority of countries, as the main business language and as a universal language for education and tourism. Based on their interests and responsibilities people decide what type of English they should learn and try to find the most suitable course for their personal goals. From another perspective, as English teachers, our obligation is to create a course that consists of materials that help students to reach their goals and allow us to present English in a structured and the most appropriate way. As a result, the problem of syllabus design that meets students' expectations appears. The main aim of this essay is to define what syllabus design is and how to design the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shuanghou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Linyi 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. First of all, let us think about the meaning of the word “syllabus”. I suppose we should consider the purpose, scope, application and specificity. More precise, it means how much of the information should be included, who should do that and what for. The syllabus should be a part of the general plan and considered in the context of an educational program. So the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chengwuxianjiunǚji Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Heze 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. A successful syllabus will form a common reference point that will set the stage for learning throughout the course and forms a contract between the teacher and students. In the case of having older students it will be important for them to have easy access to the course Syllabus, this can be done by either handing out hard copies at the Introduction Class...  [Read more]

Mark Crocker Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas Syllabus design is one of the most important parts of developing a business English course. In order to formulate a syllabus, a lot of factors have to be kept in mind. These include the purpose of the course, the language proficiency of the students, the field in which the students specialize, as well as the aims, goals and objectives that you intend to achieve by the end of the course. The syllabus design should represent a logical step by step process to take the students from their present level of proficiency to their desired level. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Hina I. Your course syllabus could take various forms. It could be a ‘structural syllabus’ which is also known as a grammatical syllabus, a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Luohe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ankang 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. A syllabus is a document that contains information about a class. Re/designing a course? If, so probably likely took part in a conversation regarding course syllabus. Conversations that the course has to have a syllabus designed in advance will be one of the first few things reviewed by students. Course description explains the course and a summary. Course materials a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lianghe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ankang 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 syllabus of a course is the frame of what the course is. It tells the students and the teacher what is being taught in the course as well as in what order it is being taught. This is especially true in language learning, as different types of syllabi will indicate what is being learned. There are many types of syllabi for language learning. Depending on the focus...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jicun Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Luliang 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. A teacher can be assigned to different teaching environments. It can be a state school or private institution, and the location may or may not provide a syllabus. As a teacher it can be up to you to design and develop a syllabus appropriate for the age group you are teaching. There are a few steps to take before during and after the course. A level test is used to...  [Read more]

Linda Dunsmore Teaching Ideas So you’ve got your TEFL certificate in hand and landed your dream teaching job abroad. Once you’re at the school, it’s time to prep for your classes. More often than not, teachers are expected to create their own course syllabi for their different classes. Here is our guide to writing your first TEFL syllabus. This post was written by our ITTT graduate Zirui P. The syllabus of a course is the frame of what the course is. It tells the students and the teacher what is being taught in the course as well as in what order it is being taught. This is especially true in language learning, as different types of syllabi will indicate what is being learned. There are many types of syllabi for language learning. Depending on the focus of the course, the syllabus...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Haixizhoumohechu Muchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Haixi Mengguzu Zangzu Zizhizhou? 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. Introduction The purpose of this work is to make a summary explaining the Syllabus design. First of all let’s note that there are several theories on how should a syllabus be designed. So there are different types of syllabuses. In this summative task we will study six (06) of them. Let’s also note that the syllabuses could be put...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zaohuli Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Binzhou 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 the existing literature on language education, the terms CURRICULUM and SYLLABUS are sometimes used interchangeably, sometimes differentiated, and sometimes misused and misunderstood. Rodger (1989:26, cited in Richards, 2001:39) makes a distinction between a syllabus and a curriculum. According to Rodgers, syllabi (or syllabuses), which prescribe the content to...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas Although courses may vary in length, subject matter, level, or approach, a systematic process, a syllabus is essential to plan and structure a course to achieve instructional goals effectively. Teachers will need to design, modify, revise or evaluate a syllabus or rethink and re-examine their syllabi throughout their career. Being a systematic process, syllabus design follows a set of steps and requirements, as outlined in the following paragraphs. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Soundous D. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Before starting the syllabus design, teachers need to collect some information to help them in this process....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tuanba Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dazhou 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, it talks about how to set a syllabus. we should test students'levels and analyze students' needs. There are five levels related to the EFL banding scales which are Starter, Elementary, Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper-Intermediate. There are many different theories as to what a syllabus should be designed around: the Structural syllabus(based on...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yongxing Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dazhou 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 unit provides an overview on the different possible levels of proficiency, different kinds of tests that can possibly be administered, ways that a syllabus can be designed and the importance of course evaluation at the end of the course. Of these, I find the part regarding syllabus design the most useful primarily because I have never worked on a syllabus before...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiaba Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dazhou 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. To teacher young learners teacher needs to prepared the syllabus also needs to give the revision in the long-term syllabus, before start the lesson for the student, also need to check the level of the student and prepare right material in different group. Teacher needs to see the factors of the teaching institution or school and improvise it. The assessment of the...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas In the existing literature on language education, the terms CURRICULUM and SYLLABUS are sometimes used interchangeably, sometimes differentiated, and sometimes misused and misunderstood. Rodger (1989:26, cited in Richards, 2001:39) makes a distinction between a syllabus and curriculum. According to Rodgers, syllabi (or syllabuses), which prescribe the content to be covered by a given course, form only a small part of the total school program. The curriculum is a far broader concept. The curriculum is all those activities in which children engage under the auspices of the school. This includes not only what students learn, but how they learn it, how teachers help them learn, using what supporting materials, styles, and methods of assessment, and in what...  [Read more]

Check out Tesolcourse.com about TESOL Certification Turkey Edirne and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: Throughout this unit I have learnt the basic methods of designing a syllabus. There is a number of factors that need to be considered before designing a syllabus such as the level of english and the age of the students. I have learnt that a level testing and a needs analysis can help before starting the course. Depending on the situation there are a variety of Syllabus structures. I also learnt about the limiting factors that come with designing a syllabus. I have learnt about the different types of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Taihe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zibo 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. A teacher may find that in some educational institutes a syllabus for his/her class will be provided by the state or private school, but where this is not available then a syllabus needs to be designed and implemented. There are many theories as to what design is best and some of these are either structural, functional-notional, learner-led, or situational syllabus, the...  [Read more]

Check out Tesolcourse.com about TEFL Courtland Alabama and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: Lesson planning and syllabus design is somewhat a controversial topic in the tefl community. “On the one hand, it makes no sense to go into any situation without having thought about what we are going to do. Yet at the same time, if we pre-determine what is going to happen before it has taken place, we may be in danger not only of missing what is right in front of us but, more importantly, we may also be closing off avenues of possible evolution and development.” (Jeremy Harmer, P 364). I am a proponent of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Weijia Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dazhou 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 was about developing the course and syllabus. The first class should be used for a level test to show the ability of the students to use the language. The use of a graded test is necessary. A need Analysis will help to find out the previous learning experience of the students, what they will use english language for and what they feel they need and want to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Deyang-shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Deyang-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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| The Course Development in Teaching English to Young Learners consists of six subjects such as Level testing and needs analysis, limiting factors, syllabus design, examination, assessment of student and course evaluation This course is very helpful, especially for those who are in the state...  [Read more]

Check out Tesolcourse.com about TEFL certification Malaysia Klang and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: The design of the syllabus may already be determined if teaching in a school or language centre. It is essential to determine current level and ability of the students through diagnostic and placement tests in order to choose the most appropriate starting place in a syllabus or course provided. A functional syllabus that is based around the social purpose of speech The design of the syllabus may already be determined if teaching in a school or language centre. It is essential to determine current...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dazhou-shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Dazhou-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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| This unit focuses mainly on tests, more specifically the different types of tests available and what they are for, international exams and the corresponding levels and the different kinds of syllabus This unit covers assessing the level and existing knowledge of our students and how to...  [Read more]

Check out Tesolcourse.com about TEFL certification Potsdam Germany and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: Most teachers tend to plan according to the course book they use and not the syllabus. And even though the course book should follow syllabus Most teachers tend to plan according to the course book they use and not the syllabus. And even though the course book should follow syllabus  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xinhua Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dazhou 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 explained of the different of course development. It began with the different levels of students and then went into the different types of test that can be administered and what those tests accomplish. This unit also went over the different types of syllabus and gave an example of a completed syllabus This unit explained of the different of course...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Renshi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dazhou 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 I learned about Course Development, Level Testing and Needs Analysis (before the start of the class, there needs to be a Needs Analysis to understand if the particular student is suitable for that particular level), also learned the Syllabus Design (how to create an appropriate Syllabus) In this unit I learned about Course Development, Level Testing...  [Read more]

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