Teaching English to Speakers of Other Course - International TESOL Certification

Aims of the TESOL Course

The TESOL course is for individuals who want to teach others how to speak English. This course is internationally recognised and will allow you to teach whiling travelling the world. Wits Language School has exclusive rights to offer this fully accredited INTESOL Certificate in TESOL (teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages).

Outcomes of the TESOL Course

On completion of the course, candidates will:

• Develop an understanding of vocabulary in context
• Have developed an awareness of various teaching methodologies of TESOL
• Develop teaching style to become more ‘communicative’
• Improve understanding of and be able to apply teaching skills
• Improve understanding of meta language related to TESOL
• Identify the form, functions and learner problems related to teaching tenses and aspects in English
• Identify the ‘contexts’ that English tenses, aspects and grammar are used in
• Use phonology to identify and assist in correcting learner pronunciation problems

TESOL Course Content

1. Basic principles of teaching English
2. Teaching strategies
   •  warmers
   • giving instructions and setting up activities
   • clarifying & eliciting information
   • teaching and learning activities
   • using video and film
   • using songs and music
   • visual aids
   • student error and correction
3. Classroom management
4. Lesson planning
5. Language and skills
   •  vocabulary
   • grammar
   • phonology
   • reading
   • writing
   • listening
   • speaking
   • pronunciation
6. Resources and materials for teaching English
   • evaluating and exploiting coursebooks
7. Testing, assessing and evaluating general English
8. Introduction to other teaching contexts
   • teaching mono and multi lingual classes
   • teaching business English
   • teaching exam classes
   • teaching young learners
9. Working in English language teaching
   • language schools
   • finding a teaching position
   • resources
   • professional development
10. Teaching practice

TESOL Course Assessment

Students must achieve a minimum of 50% in each of the following areas:

• Written assignments
• Supervised teaching practice

A certificate of attendance will be issued if the minimum mark is not attained.