TEFL Course Structure

TEFL-Unit 1: Language Teaching and Language Learning

• Language Teaching

• Language Learning

TEFL-Unit 2: Working in the Classroom

• Focus on the Teacher and Learner

• Focus on the Classroom

• Focus on practical skills for the classroom

TEFL-Unit 3: Language Awareness

• What is grammar?

• Grammar in language learning

• The basic units of grammar

• Analysing language

TEFL-Unit 4 Issues in Presenting Language

• When to present a new piece of language

• What to present

• How to present a new piece of language

• Practical classroom techniques for presentations

TEFL-Unit 5 Speaking

• The sounds of English

• Elements in connected speech

• Speaking in the classroom

TEFL-Unit 6 Listening

• Listening, and careful listening

• Characteristics of listening passages

• Developing the sub-skills of listening

• Methods of developing your students’ listening skills

TEFL-Unit 7 Reading

• Reading skills

• Intensive reading

• Intensive reading: the class reader

• Extensive reading – class library books

TEFL-Unit 8 Writing

• Types of writing

• The mechanics of writing

• Integrate the four language skills

• Controlled and guided writing

• Marking

TEFL-Unit 9 Teaching Vocabulary

• Focus on vocabulary

• Focus on teaching vocabulary

• Developing the students’ vocabulary skills

TEFL-Unit 10 Lesson Planning

• Lesson headings

• Sample lesson plans

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