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120-Hour TEFL Certificate Course Overview

TEFL Course Our four week, 120 hour course offers university standard instruction to native or near-native speakers of English.  The KKU-LI TEFL Certificate program provides trainees the skills necessary for teaching EFL/ESL to learners throughout the world.

In addition to theories of ESL, the course is very focused on practical, hands-on experience.  Beginning in the first week of the course, our trainees teach (under the guidance of highly skilled trainers) ESL classes to local students in local Thai schools.  The course has two main components: Input Sessions, which involves information about methodology and language awareness; and Teaching Practicum.

Methodology

The input sessions contain practical ideas about teaching and language learning theory.  Trainees will participate in group and pair discussion, as well as attend lectures on various topics pertaining to teaching.

Language Awareness

This will cover two main areas of language awareness.  The first is grammar.  Input sessions cover word classes, simple sentence elements, complex sentences and clauses, verb time and tense, aspect and conditionals and modals, phrasal and voice.  The second area is phonology.  Candidates can be expected to learn about phonemics, word stress and intonation, sentence stress and intonation, rhythm and intonation and connected speech.

Teaching Techniques

Teaching technique input sessions will normally include:

  1. Language acquisition
  2. Warmers – with peer teaching
  3. Controlled practice – with peer teaching
  4. Interactive materials
  5. Appropriate language
  6. Classroom management
  7. Lesson planning
  8. Reading, writing and listening activities
  9. Textbook review and evaluation
  10. Language in context

For further course related enquiries, you are welcome to contact our team of trainers
trainers@kku-li.com

What do we require?

To be eligible for application to the TEFL course, you must be able to speak English at a native or near-native level, and be able to demonstrate the necessary skills required to be successful in post-secondary level training.

The course fees are 48,000 Thai Baht. A deposit of 16,000 Baht is required upon registration.

The application process includes a brief interview with a Trainer and/or the Program Director.

Course Dates:

  • March 2010 (March 3rd - March 25th)
  • April 2010 (March 31st - April 29th)
  • May 2010 (May 5th - May 27th)
  • June 2010 (June 7th - July 2nd)
  • July 2010 (July 5th - July 30th)
  • August 2010 (August 2nd - August 27th)
  • September 2010 (September 6th - October 1st)
  • October 2010 (October 4th - October 29th)
  • November 2010 (November 1st - November 26th)
  • December 2010 (November 29th - December 24th)
  • January 2011 (January 3rd - January 28th)
  • February 2011 (January 31st - February 25th)
  • March 2011 (February 28th - March 25th)

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If you are interested in other university-level, English-teacher training programs, visit Chiang Mai University in the North, and Prince of Songkla University in the South.