Online Young Learners Teachers Training Course

TEFL Academy brings Teaching Young Learners TESOL Certification Course - the most competitive & comprehensive online option specially framed for Young Learner English Teachers’ training. The course emphasizes on teaching English to children - Intermediate to Advance English instruction applicable in a Young learner teaching environment and the ESL primary Schools. The course focuses on a variety of TESOL methodologies, classroom disciplinary methods and the combination of methods that works best in a classroom. 

Duration and Course Content

The 60-hour curriculum of YL Online Course is an internationally recognized qualification which equips you with a solid basis in the fundamentals of language teaching practice and the confidence to take control of young learners in the classroom.

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 

• The Hypothesis
• The Difference between learning and acquisition
• Assignment

How do children learn English 

• Practical approaches to teaching children
• The levels
• Language Development and context
• 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

• The importance of listening in the classroom
• Listening activities
• Self - Assignment

Teaching Speaking

• Speaking in the classroom
• Student talk
• Introducing language
• Activities
• Self – Assignment

Teaching Reading 

• Approaches to reading
• Building confidence
• Different Material
• Assignment

Teaching Writing

• Pre writing tasks
• Activities
• Some more ideas
• 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 

• Mixed groups
• Helpful strategies
• Group work
• Assignment

Class Management

• The teacher
• The room
• Rules
• Working in groups
• Self-Assignment – not to be submitted

Lesson Planning

• The need to plan
• Different ways of planning
• The framework
• When things go wrong
• 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

• Things to make
• Things to buy
• Assignment

Stories, games, songs, chants

• How to use stories
• Games – some ideas
• The importance of songs and chants
• 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

• Look at error differently
• Ways of error correction
• Assignment

Evaluation techniques

• The meaning
• Purpose
• Formative assessment
• The continuous system
• Assignment