Overview

The EBC International TEFL Certificate course will qualify you to teach English as a foreign language and give you the hands on experience you need to get quality TEFL jobs throughout the world. The course comprises 150 hours, a significant part spent on supervised group teaching practice, peer group and individual teaching sessions.

The basis for the EBC International TEFL Certificate course is Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). CLT is a comprehensive, communicative approach that values fluency, keeping learners productively using English in the classroom, and enabling them to take responsibility for their own learning.

The main asset for anyone wishing to teach abroad is their knowledge of English, and those with TEFL qualifications are in constant demand. Qualified TEFL teachers can find a ready market for their skills.

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Aims and objectives

To provide a TEFL training programme that:

• Exceeds internationally accepted TEFL guidelines
• Meets Ascentis and British Council training requirements
• Prepares students for entry into the TEFL profession
• Gives students both theoretical knowledge and hands-on teaching experience

Upon graduation you will:

• Be a fully qualified TEFL professional capable of getting EFL teaching jobs almost anywhere in the world
• Understand language use and analysis
• Be knowledgeable of teaching theory and its practical application
• Know how to manage an EFL class
• Be able to identify student learning difficulties and develop remedial action plans
• Know how to plan, design and develop effective lessons

The objective of our TEFL courseis to provide you with:

• A good understanding of how English works
• An introduction to different learning cycles, approaches and teaching models
• The ability to plan, create and deliver: structured, coherent, related lessons
• Skills enabling you to effectively present: new learning material, instructions and explanations
• Skills for Engaging (presenting), Studying (analysing) and Activating (practicing) English usage
• Teaching models and examples of how to teach reading, writing, listening, speaking, grammar and vocabulary
• How to construct tests, administer tests and provide feedback
• Effective classroom management skills for controlling disruptive behaviour
• An understanding of different types of motivation models plus examples of how to motivate
• An understanding of how adults learn English, what motivates them and the roles of teacher and learner
• Knowledge of how you must behave within the classroom and what your students expect from you
• Familiarity with teaching resources and materials
• An introduction to the age factor and its effect on language learning
• An overview of planning a syllabus
• Knowledge of different types of English for Special Purposes (ESP), commonly referred to as Business English

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Key course areas

The EBC International TEFL Certificate course concentrates on the following key areas in order to make you an efficient, knowledgeable and valuable EFL teacher:

• Language development: Use of English, ESP (English for Special purposes)/Business English;
  
  
• Methodology: Concentrating on grammar, phonetics, learning theories and their practical application in the classroom, ESP methodology and vocabulary;
  
  
• Teaching practice: supervised group teaching, peer group and individual teaching, classroom management and lesson planning

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What you can expect

Our EBC International TEFL Certificate course is an intensive, challenging and rewarding course. There is a lot to learn in 4 weeks, new skills that you have to put to immediate use in real life teaching situations.

Your teaching practice classes will contain working people and/or people that need to learn English in order to help them find a job. We monitor the language level, age range and skill sets of these people to ensure your teaching practice is as real as possible.

In our challenging, demanding and highly rewarding course, you will make new friends, graduate with an internationally recognised TEFL qualification and experience life in a non-English speaking country.

Once you graduate, you won’t just have another qualification, you will have joined a unique body of professionals wanting to teach and be taught by traveling and experiencing different cultures. As well as graduating as a TEFL certified teacher, you will also learn how to quickly adapt and survive in a new cultural environment. The EBC course mirrors real life as a new teacher in a foreign country so when you have graduated you will be truly ready to teach anywhere.

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What do you learn?

Introduction to TEFL

• Language analysis and usage
• EFL teaching theory and practical application
• Classroom management
• Lesson planning and evaluation

Learning versus teaching

• What's the difference?
• The learning cycle
• Types of students
• What teaching models have influenced current teaching practice?

The lesson structure

• How to present material
• How to present key points
• How to present explanations and instructions
• Guidelines on effectively presenting explanations and instructions

What do we know about language learning?

• What elements are necessary for language learning in a classroom?
• How to effectively use: engage, study and activate techniques in lesson sequences

Planning lessons and didactic material usage

• What are the aims of a plan?
• What should be in a plan?
• How to plan effective lessons
• Different lesson components explained
• How to select and order lesson components
• Lesson planning and management tips
• Sample lesson plans
• My lesson planning promise
• Effective use of didactic materials

What are the best kinds of lesson?

• How to evaluate lesson effectiveness
• How to define evaluation criteria

Classroom interaction

• Interaction, meaning and concepts
• Patterns of classroom interaction
• Social aspects of classroom interaction
• Initiation - response - feedback
• How to implement and use interactive teaching strategies

Asking questions

• Reasons for questioning
• How to construct effective questions
• How to successfully elicit answers
• How to concept check

Feedback

• What is feedback?
• Approaches to the nature and function of feedback
• How to correct mistakes
• How to tactfully deliver feedback

Testing and assessment

• Why test?
• The value of assessment and correction for learning
• How to construct successful and meaningful tests
• How to administer tests
• How to establish assessment reference criteria
• How to establish assessment grades

Classroom discipline, what to do if students:

• Keep using their own language
• Are uncooperative
• Don't want to talk
• Sometimes don't understand what they are listening to
• Groups finish before everybody else?

Teaching vocabulary

• How to present and explain new vocabulary
• Classroom activities that stimulate vocabulary use

How to teach grammar?

• Understanding grammar in general
• Understanding grammatical structures
• Understanding grammatical meaning
• How to present and explain new grammatical structures
• Classroom activities that stimulate grammar use

How to teach reading

• What is reading?
• How do we read?
• How to teaching reading
• What do reading activities look like?
• Classroom activities that stimulate reading

How to teach writing

• Why do we write?
• Differences between written and spoken text
• How to teaching writing
• What do writing activities look like?
• Classroom activities that stimulate writing

How to teach speaking

• How to practice oral fluency
• How and when to correct errors during fluency exercises
• How to resolve common speaking activities problems
• How to use role play and related techniques
• What do speaking activities look like?
• Classroom activities that stimulate speaking

How to teach listening

• What is really involved in real-life listening?
• Common attributes of real-life listening situations
• How to simulate real-life listening in the classroom
• What do listening activities look like?
• Classroom activities that stimulate listening

Student motivation and interest

• The importance of motivation
• Characteristics of motivated students
• Different kinds of motivation
• Fluctuations in student interest
• How to effectively use motivational techniques

How to teach pronunciation

• Long and short vowel sounds
• Diphthongs
• Different qualities of and pronunciation of vowels
• Plosive consonants
• Difficult sounds e.g. W, G, J. CH etc
• Intonation and its effect on phrase/sentence meaning
• How stressed and unstressed syllables vary the rhythm of words and phrases

The teacher's behaviour, role and responsibility

• The characteristics of a good teacher
• How to communicate success and its rewards
• How to communicate failure and its penalties
• How to make authoritative demands
• How to structure teacher language
• How to manage teacher talking time (TTT) versus student talking time (STT)

How to perform concept checking

• What is concept checking?
• Vehicles for concept checking
• How to concept check vocabulary
• How to concept check grammar

What difference does age make to language learning?

• Is age a factor?
• Do children learn more quickly than adults?
• Basic ideas behind teaching children
• Basic ideas behind teaching adolescents
• Basic ideas behind teaching adults

Planning a syllabus

• What is a syllabus?
• Things to think about when planning a syllabus
• What does a student need to learn?
• Common characteristics of a syllabus
• Types of syllabuses
• Using the syllabus

ESP/Business English

• Defining ESP areas of specialisation
• Analysing needs
• English language teaching tree
• ESP teaching techniques

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How do you learn?

Your work programme is divided into two main sections:

1. classroom based training
2. teaching practice

Classroom based training

You will be taught language analysis and usage, theory and practical application, classroom management and lesson planning/evaluation through the following:

• Seminars and lectures
• Trainer demonstrations
• Group role-playing exercises

Teaching practice

Your teaching practice is composed of the following:

• Supervised group teaching practice
• Individual teaching practice sessions
• Peer group teaching
• Feedback

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How are you assessed?

The course is continually assessed on three main themes:

• Teaching practice performance
• Successfully completed assignments and lesson plans
• Professional development

How is the assessment performed?

Your written work and teaching practice work will be reviewed by your course tutor. It will also be independently reviewed by John Magne-Erlandsen and Tita Ashton.

EBC's success in getting graduates employed quickly is due to the quality of the teachers that we train so we are very careful about maintaining our teaching standards.

Who assess you?

You will be assessed by:

• Your course tutor
• John Magne-Erlandsen, BA English and German, MA Pedagogical Studies, MA Didactics of Teaching Languages.
  Head of TEFL training, EBC Servicios Lingüísticos
• Tita Ashton, BA Communications, MA TESOL, MBA Training and Education.
  Managing Director of EBC y Asociados Idiomas
• And last but not least, feed-back from your teaching practice students!

Progress Metrics

Individual student performance metrics will be gathered in the following key areas:

• Teaching practice
• Practical teaching assessment including lesson planning, execution and the ability to give constructive lesson feedback
• Written work that demonstrates practical knowledge of:
  
  
  • The English language system
  • TEFL theories and methodologies
  • Understanding of learners, their needs and their capacities
  • Evaluation, monitoring and assessment
  • Materials preparation and lesson planning;
    
    
• Written work must meet acceptable content, style and presentation standards for a teacher of English
• Professional attitude to everyone associated with the course

In order to graduate the candidate must successfully complete all written and practical teaching requirements.

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Course written work

You must deliver:

• 8 complete lesson plans including post-lesson notes
• An essay on a TEFL related topic
• A one to one assignment showing a study plan designed to meet the specific learning needs of a non-English speaker

The one to one assignment requires special mention as it will give you a solid framework for teaching English for Specific Purposes (aka Business English).

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Course material

Course manual

You will receive a manual covering the following topics addressed in the course:

• Introduction to TEFL
• Learning versus teaching
• The lesson structure
• What do we know about language learning?
• Planning lessons and didactic material usage
• What are the best kinds of lesson?
• Classroom interaction
• Asking questions
• Feedback
• Testing and assessment
• Classroom discipline, what to do if students:
• Teaching vocabulary
• How to teach grammar
• How to teach reading
• How to teach writing
• How to teach speaking
• How to teach listening
• Student motivation and interest
• The teacher's behaviour, role and responsibility
• How to perform concept checking
• What difference does age make to language learning?
• Planning a syllabus
• ESP/Business English

Grammar reference manual

You will also receive a grammar reference manual covering basic English language grammatical structures, a brief explanation of how they work  and examples of their usage. Chapter headings are:

• Present simple
• Present continuous
• Past simple
• Past continuous
• Used to and would
• Present perfect simple
• Present perfect continuous
• Past perfect simple
• Past perfect continuous
• Going to
• Will
• Passive
• Introduction to conditionals
• Conditionals
• Infinitives
• Gerunds
• Modals
• Will and would
• Can and could
• May and might
• Must and have to
• Needn't and mustn't
• Shall and should
• Ought to
• Adjectives and adverbs
• Frequency adverbs
• Comparatives and superlatives
• Reported speech (passive)
• Time clauses
• Relative clauses
• Verbs + prepositions
• Nouns + prepositions
• Prepositions + nouns
• Countable and uncountable nouns
• Some and any
• Expressing quantity
• Both, neither, either
• Each and every
• Make or do
• Rise or raise
• When or if
• So or such
• Rule about "i" before "e"
• i.e. Versus e.g
• Irregular verbs

Replacement cost

There is a  €20 replacement fee, so make sure you don't lose it!

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Course fee

Beat the exchange rates with EBC

EBC tries to make your course selection and payment as simple as possible.

We know that exchange rates can be a problem so we've come up with a solution.

Simply put, we have a fixed annual fee in currencies that are roughly equivalent to each other.

When you decide to send your course fee you can choose which currency you prefer to use and how you want to pay.

You can send the full fee in one simple payment or you can send your deposit to guarantee your place and then send your final payment one month before the course starts.

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What's included in the fee?

• An accredited course taught by expert tutors with an average of 15 years EFL teaching and training experience
• All moderation and accreditation fees
• An EBC International TEFL certificate
• An Ascentis, British Council compliant EBC International Certificate in TESOL
• Guaranteed: Personalised JOB introductions to over 250 reputable local language schools in Madrid
• Guaranteed: Lifetime world-wide JOB placement assistance
• FREE * English Grammar distance learning course This is a self-study course that is must for all prospective teachers. It explains and tests you on all of the major English language grammar structures. Don't leave home without this one!
• FREE * E-Book: Introduction to TEFL - explains what TEFL is and the types of things you'll need to master in order to become a great teacher
• FREE * E-Book: Practical Guide to Teaching Business English - essential for those that want to go on to teach Business English and fully complementary to the Business English modules covered in our course
• FREE course work printing
• FREE 100 pages of photocopying
• FREE WIFI internet access if you bring your own WIFI ready laptop
• A 174 page course manual that covers all the main aspects of teaching English as a foreign language
• 160 page English grammar reference manual containing key elements of English grammar plus examples
• A welcome pack containing: city and metro maps, restaurant, museum and activity guide etc
• Advice about finding short and long term housing, mobile phone rental, short term storage and other convenience services
• Job counseling workshop
• Job interview preparation workshop
• EBC initiated and managed CV/Resume distribution to ESL schools
• Priority access to teaching jobs with our sister company EBC y Asociados in Madrid (subject to availability)
• A web based CV/resume formatting and storage service
• A web based list of almost 2,000 different language schools around the world so you can apply for jobs wherever you are using your stored CV/resume
• Organised farewell party. (Self pay, attendance is optional)
• ON REQUEST: Referral to an immigration lawyer (legal fees are not included in the course fee)

* The English Grammar distance learning course, Introduction to TEFL E-Book and Practical Guide to Teaching Business English E-Book are only available to students that apply and enroll through EBC.

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Entry requirements

You don't need previous experience in teaching English to join the EBC International TEFL Certificate + EBC International Certificate in TESOL programme.

EBC's minimum entry requirements are possibly the highest for any 4 week intensive TEFL course in the world. They are certainly higher than both Celta and Trinity course minimum entry requirements.

Why? simply because we want to attract you, the best qualified people to receive top-quality training and then help you get the best jobs.

Mandatory requirements

• You must be 21 years old by the course start date
• You must have a high level of competence in all aspects of English (*)
• You must have either a degree (or similar level professional qualification) or 5 years work experience

(*) Non-native English speakers are eligible if they meet the requirements mentioned in the Non-native English Speakers section shown below.

Optional TEFL course acceptance enhancers

If you have experience in any of the following areas please include it on your TEFL course application.

• Lived, worked or traveled abroad
• Knowledge of a second language
• Work experience
• Recent additional studies
• Experience in dealing with groups of people
• Volunteer work
• Mentoring, tutoring or teaching
• Teaching experience

You must also show serious intent to use your teacher training in a realistic way for your career development.

Non-native English speakers

If you are a non-native English speaker you can apply for the course but you must have a highly advanced level in all aspects of the English language. This must be demonstrated by having one of the following:

• A degree from a university in one of the following countries: Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom or the United States of America
• Cambridge CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English)
• IELTS level 6
• TOEFL (minimum scores 520 on the paper-based test or 80 on the computer-based test)

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Course dates

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How do I apply?

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What extras do you give?

EBC believes in giving you what you need for your career rather than some of the more frivolous freebies offered by some others, so we include practical and useful additional material in the course fee.

We give you two great FREE e-books AND a bonus FREE English grammar distance learning course.

1. The Introduction to TEFL e-book is FREE to ALLcourse enrolees
2. The FREE Business English e-book and English grammar course are sent when you send your final payment

Introduction to TEFL e-book

Explains what TEFL is and the types of things you'll need to master in order to become a great teacher.

Practical Guide to Teaching Business English

Essential for those that want to go on to teach Business English and fully complementary to the Business English modules covered in our course.

English Grammar distance learning course

This is a self-study course that is must for all prospective teachers. It explains and tests you on all of the major English language grammar structures. Don't leave home without this one!

NOTE These items are only available to students that apply and enroll through EBC.

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