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Courses » TESOL COURSE
Our comprehensive 120-hour theoretical and practical skills development course in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) takes place once a month.
The course has three components: home study, intensive classroom-based sessions and observation/teaching practice. For our monthly course dates, please contact us via email.
The home study component information will be e-mailed to you once registration and the deposit payment is complete.
The intensive, classroom-based component runs over a week, including both Saturdays from 09h00 – 16h00 and Monday to Friday in the evenings from 18h00 – 22h00 and the observation/teaching practice component runs over further week, Monday to Friday from 09h00 – 16h00. This component is compulsory.
COURSE OVERVIEW:
The home study component is assessed on the basis of an assignment. During the intensive, classroom-based component, assessment is continuous and based on participation in group discussions and performance in short, simulated teaching sessions. The teaching practice component provides the opportunity for self assessment under the guidance of the course facilitator. Final assessment for this component comes from the combined trainee and facilitator session assessments for the week.
What’s the difference between TEFL and TESOL?
There is no fundamental difference in methodology. Completely foreign contexts (where people learning English are exposed to absolutely no English outside the classroom) are becoming increasingly rare. TESOL is a catch-all term for foreign and second/additional language contexts.
We use the term TESOL for our comprehensive course because the trend in the field is increasingly tending to the use of TESOL rather than TEFL. Longer courses of 100+ hours are also becoming increasingly common.
What’s the difference between a TESOL certificate and the CELTA?
The TESOL course covers the same content as the CELTA and is constantly updated to keep abreast of international best practice. The only real difference is that the TESOL course is not moderated or accredited by Cambridge University. This means that we avoid having to pay Cambridge a fee and are thus able to offer the training at a substantially lower cost.
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