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

TEYL - Teaching English - Course Content

The content for TEYL online is systematically divided into 13 chapters providing you thoughtful insight into the program, its well-schemed steps, gradually helping you to develop your skills and techniques required to emerge as a successful English language teacher for young learners.

Chapter 1 - Language learning and language acquisition 
Chapter 2 - How do children learn English 
Chapter 3 - How to handle mixed groups
Chapter 4 - Teaching Listening 
Chapter 5 - Teaching Speaking 
Chapter 6 - Teaching Reading 
Chapter 7 - Teaching Writing 
Chapter 8 - Class Management 
Chapter 9 - Lesson Planning 
Chapter 10 - Making your own resources 
Chapter 11 - Stories, plays, songs, rhymes 
Chapter 12 - Correction techniques 
Chapter 13 - Evaluation techniques 

TEYL Course Overview:

• Language Learning and Acquisition
  • Difference between language learning and language acquisition
• How Do Children Learn English
  • The levels – Very young learners (3 to 5 years), Young Learners (6 to 8 year olds, 9 to 12 year olds)
  • Language development
  • Context for learning
• How To Handle Mixed Groups
  • How are they different?
  • Managing classes of mixed abilities
  • Helpful strategies
  • Group teaching
• Teaching Listening Skills
  • Listening in the classroom
  • Types of listening – listen and do, listening for information, listen and repeat, independent listening
• Teaching Speaking Skills
  • Speaking in the classroom
  • Encourage student talk
  • Introducing new language,
  • Controlled practice,
  • Guided practice,
  • Dialogues, 
  • and Free speech
• Teaching Reading Skills
  • Approaches to reading
  • What to choose
  • Let’s begin
  • Building confidence
  • Different materials
  • Teaching Writing
  • Another form of expression
  • Prewriting activities
  • Types of writing – controlled, guided, free
  • Some more ideas – dialogues, descriptions, letters, stories.
• Classroom Management
  • The ideal teacher
  • Classroom atmosphere
  • Negotiating rules
  • Pair and group work
  • Classroom language
• Lesson Planning
  • The need for planning
  • Long and short term plans
  • The plan
  • When things go wrong
  • Making Your Own Resources
  • Problems
  • Things you and your students can make
  • Materials to buy
  • Materials for you to collect
• Stories, songs and chants
  • The art of story telling
  • Music- The language without barriers
• Correction Techniques
  • Self-correction
  • Peer correction
  • Tutor correction
• Evaluation
  • What is assessment?
  • Reasons for assessment
  • Continuous assessment
  • Self-evaluation

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