ESL/EFL Teaching Course - $129.99

International travel opportunities, multi-cultural training, and job satisfaction are some of the many benefits of becoming an ESL/EFL teacher.

ESL/EFL is essential for those people who either live in the US or the UK. However, this fact can also not be denied that the number of English learners is increasing by the day. Teaching English as a second language is an interactive, interesting, informative and fun. It can be carried out as a hobby, for charity, as a part time job or on a voluntary basis. The ExpertRating ESl/EFL course brushes up your grammatical skills, your knowledge of tenses and some basic rules of English that are required to teach English as a second language.

EFL or English as a foreign language and ESL or English as a Second Language is usually taught full-time over a one-month period or part-time over a period up to a year. The ExpertRating Teaching ESL/EFL Certification will provide you tips on grammar, pronunciation, listening, speaking, reading and writing and learn the nuances of becoming a successful teacher.

ExpertRating Online ESL Teaching Course Coverage (6 weeks program)

Week One

Wednesday - Lesson 01

The English language is everywhere—in music and movies, classrooms and airports, newspapers and e-mail. It's the language of both Shakespeare and Hollywood. So everyone knows what English is . . . or do they? Is it British, American, Canadian, or Australian? Is it harder to learn than other languages? In the first lesson, you'll explore the native vs. non-native distinction people often make about English speakers. You'll also look at how teaching English is different from teaching other subjects. And finally, you'll see which aspects of memory are most helpful in learning a language.

Friday - Lesson 02

What exactly is teaching? Have you given much thought to what kinds of roles you play in the classroom? Well, today you will! Teachers have many roles, including lesson planner, friend, authority, coach, assessor, and role model, just to name a few. In this lesson, you'll reflect on the different roles you play in the classroom, the role of English language teaching in your curriculum and community, and what factors should shape your particular style. After this lesson, you might agree that the best answer to, "What exactly is teaching?" is, "It depends!"

Week Two

Wednesday - Lesson 03

As an English teacher, you naturally want to choose the most appropriate materials and activities for your classroom. But how do you do this? First, you must answer the most important question of all: Who are you teaching? In this lesson, you'll think about the faces you see every day in your classroom. Are they younger or older? What life experiences and intellectual abilities do they bring with them? Why do they want to learn English? All these variables will impact how you teach, shaping your approach and the activities you choose. One thing's for sure: It's really not English you're teaching, but students.

Friday - Lesson 04

In this lesson, you'll take a look at some of the many methods people have used over the years to teach foreign languages. Some are hundreds of years old, while others are fairly new on the scene. As you'll see, though, all of them suffer from certain limitations. Are they useless then? Not at all. In this lesson you'll explore how, even though the methods themselves may not help much, one can still gain a lot from understanding the ideas that led to their creation.

Week Three

Wednesday - Lesson 05-

If methods are too limiting, what can you use to guide you in your teaching? This lesson will focus on general principles that can guide your choice of classroom activities whatever your situation may be. You'll learn about Communicative Language Teaching, as well as a number of principles that experts have developed along the way. Of course, you're not limited to what others have done. Instead, you'll discover ways to select or even develop your own principles. And you'll find the freedom to choose the principles that are relevant to your teaching situation and let go of those that aren't.

Friday - Lesson 06

How does one define what a word is? By its spelling? By its pronunciation? By its dictionary meaning? As teachers of the English language, words are your stock-in-trade. You must teach vocabulary, because a language is made of its words. But you can't really teach the true meaning of words if you teach them in isolation and out of context. This lesson will look at several types of meaning you need to be aware of and explore some techniques for teaching vocabulary items in the most helpful way.

Week Four

Wednesday - Lesson 07

No other aspect of language teaching is more misunderstood and disliked than grammar! Like it or not, though, grammar is the linguistic glue that holds words together. In this lesson, you'll look at interesting ways to teach grammar, including using listening, the lexical approach, the top-down approach, and context. These approaches will not only be useful and relevant, but they might even make grammar exciting for your students to learn!

Friday - Lesson 08

Listening and speaking come so naturally in your first language that it might seem hard to believe that you actually need to teach these skills in a second language. Natural or not, these two skills are exceedingly complex, and each demands special approaches and techniques. This lesson will look at how these skills differ, and then will examine ways to help students improve their listening comprehension and speaking abilities.

Week Five

Wednesday - Lesson 09

The majority of English learners around the world need to learn reading the most, yet this skill is probably taught the least. Lesson 9 will look at different writing and spelling systems, the problems that come with the irregularities of English, and different types of reading skills. This lesson will also examine teaching techniques like skimming, scanning, and transcoding that can help students improve their reading comprehension and speed.

Friday - Lesson 10

Millions of people around the world can speak perfectly well but can't read or write in their own language. A person needs years of schooling to develop strong writing skills—and it's even more challenging to learn to write in a second language. So Lesson 10 will review the characteristics of good writing, and you'll get some ideas about how to make learning this skill a little less daunting for your students.

Week Six

Wednesday - Lesson 11

Have you ever met a student who really likes to take tests? Probably not. And with all the work that goes into them, teachers like them even less! Yet you constantly need to assess, evaluate, and test to know what progress your students are making and where they may need help. In this lesson, you'll learn the key difference between mistakes and errors, get some ideas about how to offer correction, discover different types of tests, and see how to keep them fair, accurate, and relevant.

Friday - Lesson 12

In the final lesson you'll explore how to become more reflective and effective teachers. You'll learn how to become more expert and efficient, and you'll discover ways to gain insight into your vocation through watching and learning from other teachers, observing and evaluating yourself, and journaling. Finally, you'll see the great value in continuing your professional growth, becoming the great teacher you were meant to be!

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