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- Course content for online TESOL Course
- Course content for online Teaching English to Young Learners
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Course content for online TESOL Course
The content for TEFL TESOL Online is systematically divided into
phases which will allow you to work through the course with the
skills and techniques required for successful language teaching.
PHASE I – Pre-Teaching
1. Foreign Language Experience
2. Student Profile
3. Language Awareness
4. Teaching Observation
PHASE II – Off-site Teaching Techniques and Practice
1. Language Learning and Language Acquisition
o Teaching techniques
2. Warmer and Context Modeling
3. TT Modeling – Core Materials
4. TT Listening
5. Listening Strategies
6. Reading to Writing
7. Vocabulary Expansion
PHASE III – Specialty Areas
1. Chants and Songs
2. Theatre Technique
3. Noticing Errors
4. Classroom Management
5. Evaluating Text
PHASE IV – Teaching Practice & Observation
1. Lesson Planning
2. English for Academic Purposes
3. No Materials
4. Principles of Effective Teaching
PHASE V – Material Compilation Project
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Course content for online Teaching English to Young Learners
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[Only for TESOL certified teachers]
Phase 1: The Learner
Teaching ESL to children is not merely a matter of setting them
loose on a plethora of authentic language tasks in the classroom. To
successfully teach children a language requires specific skills and
intuitions that differ from those appropriate for adult teaching.
• Language learning and language acquisition
o The Hypothesis
o The Difference between learning and acquisition
o Assignment
• How do children learn English
o Practical approaches to teaching children
o The levels
o Language Development and context
o Assignment
Phase 2: The Skills
For decades English language teaching has identified the “four
skills” – listening, speaking, reading and writing – of paramount
importance. Listening and reading are considered to be receptive
skills while speaking and writing as productive. Though at times
these are taught in separate segments but there is a recent trend to
integrate the skills. The language learners discover the differences
and the interrelationship among these primary skills.
• Teaching Listening
o The importance of listening in the classroom
o Listening activities
o Self - Assignment
• Teaching Speaking
o Speaking in the classroom
o Student talk
o Introducing language
o Activities
o Self – Assignment
• Teaching Reading
o Approaches to reading
o Building confidence
o Different Material
o Assignment
• Teaching Writing
o Pre writing tasks
o Activities
o Some more ideas
o Assignment
Phase 3: Actual Teaching
Actual training begins when you are in the classroom. The subject
matter that the teacher teaches is only one piece of the puzzle.
There is a lot more that goes on in the classroom and outside it
that affects the teaching and learning process.
• How to handle mixed groups
o Mixed groups
o Helpful strategies
o Group work
o Assignment
• Class Management
o The teacher
o The room
o Rules
o Working in groups
o Self-Assignment – not to be submitted
• Lesson Planning
o The need to plan
o Different ways of planning
o The framework
o When things go wrong
o Assignment
Phase 4: Tools
Teacher- centered approaches fail to treat the children as ‘whole’
people. The teaching is usually rational and is primarily aimed at
the children’s intellect. There is an assumption that real learning
occurs when the children are serious. How wrong this is!!
• Materials in the classroom
o Things to make
o Things to buy
o Assignment
• Stories, games, songs, chants
o How to use stories
o Games – some ideas
o The importance of songs and chants
o Self-Assignments – not to be submitted
Phase 5: That’s right!
Correction and evaluation are important components in the
educational world. In every learning experience there comes a time
to pause and take stock, to put our focal processes to their best
use and to demonstrate skills and knowledge. Unfortunately students
view this process of correction and evaluation with a lot of
apprehension and it is up to us as teachers to make it a positive
experience.
• Correction techniques
o Look at error differently
o Ways of error correction
o Assignment
• Evaluation techniques
o The meaning
o Purpose
o Formative assessment
o The continuous system
o Assignment
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