What is TEFL certification? TEFL refers to Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Our course provides teacher training for those who want to live and teach in countries like China and Thailand, where English is a foreign language and students have little daily exposure to it. Our TEFL course equips native and near native-speakers to teach in foreign classrooms.

“Experience the Difference Hands on Modern Practical University Instruction in a Real ESL Environment in the Heart of China”

Why English?
Never before has a language had so powerful a presence! English is the primary language of world trade, business and management. It is the global language of travel, tourism and hospitality. It is the tongue of diplomacy and international cooperation. It is the speech of global banking and Third World development. It is the language of science, medicine, education and technology.

Dominant in almost every major human enterprise, English has rivals but no equals. That is why governments, businesses and educational institutions want their people to master this linguistic superpower. That is also why TEFL certification provides unequalled opportunities for language teachers to work and travel.

What is our Approach?
Our approach is known as communicative language teaching. This teaching and learning system is widely accepted in Western countries, but has only recently begun to take root in Asia. We see ourselves as part of vanguard in a linguistic revolution. The principles taught in our TEFL certification course can be used effectively in any country where English is a foreign language. However, in our course we illustrate these principles by using examples form the Thai language and Thai culture. Our TEFL students frequently say the course has helped understand Thailand better.

Course Overview
We offer university-standard instruction to native (or near-native) speakers of English. So far, most of our students have sought careers as English instructors and teachers in Thailand. Others, however, have successfully applied for positions in other countries. Our TEL program will prepare you to teach in any foreign classroom. You can present the CMU TEFL certificate to prospective employers with confidence and pride. Challenging but rewarding, our course has two parts.

TEFL Certificate Course Part One
Involves 75 hours of classroom instruction. In the classroom, we review second-language acquisition theory; teaching approaches, methods and techniques; student assessment, evaluation and testing; lesson and unit planning; and material analysis and development. The classroom sessions also cover phonetics and linguistics but they emphasize fundamental English grammar. Our classes illustrate teaching activities you can use to develop your students' listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.

TEFL Certificate Course Part Two
The second is a 48-hour practicum. During the first week, we study presentation skills, lesson planning and syllabus design. During the following month, each week we spend ten hours in practice teaching with a class of learners from Chiang Mai University. This schedule enables each TEFL student to teach for at last four to six classroom hours. When you are not conducting the practicum lesson yourself, you will work individually with two Thai university students. This provides valuable experience and helps develop your personal teaching style.

Aims Of The TEFL Abroad Certificate Course
The aims of a TEFL Abroad TEFL course, as indicated above, are, clearly, to provide trainees with the tools to do the job: to impart the required knowledge of the theory of English Language Training, coupled with the guidance and the means to put theory into practice.
 
 Through a series of lectures, lessons, seminars, workshops, and other activities we will create a model to help trainees use various techniques, materials and methodology and apply them to teaching real classes of real students.
 
 We cover classroom management, lesson planning and provide a chance for you to put these into action with genuine learners of English from at least two different levels. In addition, we provide trainees the chance to observe experienced teachers teaching actual classes.
 
 TEFL Abroad Course Objectives
The objective of the TEFL Abroad course is to give trainees insights into not only the workings of English, but also into language acquisition via a foreign or unknown language. This illustrates and demonstrate what a learner faces in the classroom, and will help you understand the need for sensitivity towards students' needs and recognition of their performance. It will show them, too, how language can be used as a tool to bring about communication in the fullest sense.

This can be achieved through practical instruction, projects, and observed teaching practice.