TEFL Courses Online - About TEYL Course (Teaching English to Young Learner Program)

TEYL - Teaching English - About the Course

Innovative Education and TEFL International now jointly floats the TEYL Certification Course - the most competitive & comprehensive online option specially framed for Young Learner English Teachers’ training. The course emphasizes on teaching the young learners - Intermediate to Advance English instruction applicable in a Young learner teaching environment and the ESL primary Schools.

• Why is there a need for a separate Teacher Training Course for Children?
• If I have been teaching English or if I have already completed a Teacher Training Course in English , do I need another course to teach Young learners?

The answer to all these questions is a YES. The teaching of English to young children has become especially important in recent years. Many teachers find themselves teaching in primary school even though they have not been trained for this level. There is no doubt that the role and importance of English has risen in many countries. As a result an increasing number of parents are sending their children to language schools after regular school hours, and governments are introducing English into their elementary curriculum. These trends have led to an increasing need for training.

The adult world and the child’s world are not the same. The young learners ranging from 3 years to 12 years of age are constantly passing through developmental stages or milestones. What is applicable to one age group will not be the same for another. The teacher needs to be aware of the psychological and mental stages of the students in order to make the teaching-learning process effective. For children the ‘here and now’ is most important therefore language needs to be associated with the senses in order to be meaningful.

Theories on child psychology tell us that the brain develops till age eight, so the inputs during this phase needs to be carefully monitored. The child from birth to age two is an attentive listener and this listening skill continues through out life and based on this skill we acquire language. So the teacher plays a vital role while helping children learn a language, since in an ESL or EFL class the teacher may be the only source of English. Therefore WHAT and HOW English will be taught at this level needs to be first understood and well thought by the teacher before he/ she faces the class. 

This exhaustive online course helps the trainees to get an in depth knowledge and acquire valuable skills on how to teach English to young learners and very young learners; a course that has already been internationally recognized and commended. We claim to be a step ahead in executing the course. 

Besides the much trodden online video approach the TEYL course is honed with interactive web based trainings, detailed explanations, video demonstrations, hands-on exercises & tests. A thoroughly engaging process that, actually goes much beyond video series and text-based tutorials.