TESOL Certificate & Diploma Programs in Montreal, Quebec

Canada College:
Located in Montreal, Quebec, the major aim at Canada College is to provide the latest methods of teaching and course material for our students and students studying at our affiliated schools in different countries. Canada College employees a number qualified staff and professors who are dedicated to higher education. We provide TESOL Certificate and Diploma programs designed for international teachers of English as a Foreign Language who want to continue their professional development, for professional in Canada, considering a career change, and for recent college graduates who want to travel and teach abroad.

TESOL English Teacher Training Programs:

6-Week TESOL Certificate Program:
The 6-week TESOL Certificate Program provides an integrated curriculum of courses, workshops, and supervised student teaching organized around six, one-week units which are:

• Foreign Language Experience
• Language Awareness
• Phonology
• Student Profile
• Teaching Techniques
• Teaching Practice and Observation

The Language System of English
Discuss theories on the origins of language; compare writing systems; experience how sounds are produced (phonology), sound patterns make up the English language (phonetics), how words are formed (morphology), sentences are structured (syntax), meaning is conveyed (semantics) and languages are used (pragmatics).

Teaching, Learning and Assessing:
Talk about how languages are learned, how the four skills (reading, writing, listening & speaking) fit into a model of communicative competence, and what all of this means for designing classroom activities and assessing student performance.

Language Classroom Practices:
Learn how to plan lessons, design activities, and assess learners. Become familiar with techniques for promoting interaction, providing feedback, utilizing textbooks, developing one's own materials, dealing with mixed ability level groups, incorporating strategy training in lessons, and managing a classroom.

Student Teaching Practicum:
Gain hours of supervised team-student teaching. Participants have an opportunity to implement the materials they have developed and the concepts they have learned over the week, as well as receive feedback from experienced teachers

290-hour TESOL Diploma Program:
Our TESOL Diploma program is a 290-hour course for more experienced English teachers. Students who have already completed our TESOL Certification are eligible to enroll into our Diploma program. Courses already completed during their certification will be taken into account.