TEFL Certification Courses in Surabaya, Indonesia

Tefl International Indonesia, Surabaya:
Get certified and teach English with TEFL International in Surabaya, Indonesia. Teach English and see the world!

TESOL Certificate Course:
A one month course designed to adequately prepare a teacher for the realities of an ESL/EFL classroom.

120 hours of intensive methodology, language and grammar practice further supported by teaching practice in real school settings.
These practices are observed, giving the trainee the chance to reflect on challenges, learn methods, and build skills needed to be effective teachers.

Minimum Requirements:

- Age: 25 Years
- Education: Capable of producing university-level work
- English: Fluent or near-native fluency
- Indonesia's Visa regulations have been updated. Although teachers under 25 do get hired, it has become more difficult.
- No age or visa restriction for online certification

Course Content:

Foreign Language Experience:
The trainees receive training in an unknown foreign language to reflect on the experience of being a learner, and how this might direct their own teaching. 
Language Awareness:
- Grammar: Inputs cover word classes, simple sentence elements, complex sentences and clauses, verb time and tense, aspect and conditionals and modals, phrasals and voice.

- Phonology: Inputs cover phonemics, word stress and intonation, sentence stress and intonation, rhythm and intonation, and connected speech.

Student Profile:
Trainees work with individual students on rapport-building, error analysis and addressing individual student needs. Two meetings with the student are required including transcription and error analysis of audio samples, culminating in a summary of the student's 'profile.'

Teaching Techniques:

Teaching technique inputs normally cover:

- language acquisition 
- classroom management
- warmers - with peer teaching
- textbook review and evaluation
- controlled practice - with peer teaching
- modeling context and language concepts
- interactive materials
- lesson planning
- listening activities
- songs and chants
- appropriate language
- reading activities
- language in context
- writing activities
- vocabulary development - with peer teaching
- intermediate and content based lessons
- communicative activities
- teaching young learners
- theater techniques
- feedback and testing

Teaching Practice and Observation:

All teachers are expected to perform:
- 4 hours observing experienced teachers
- 4 hours observing video of experienced teachers
- 16 hours of classroom observation
- 8 hours of individual teaching practice

Materials Project:
All trainees must develop four sets of materials used during the teaching practice. The materials including drawings, audio tapes, scripts and others must be produced by the individual trainee, and not be copied from other sources. Two of these sets will be written up in The Portfolio as the Materials Compilation Project including:

- context of the lesson
- materials used
- how and why the materials were used
- critical review of how the materials or their use could be improved
- suggestions about how these materials could be used in teaching other contexts

By the end of the course each trainee will show that they can plan a lesson,model context, and communicate content and meaning during teaching practice.

For further information on our TEFL / TESOL certification programs, please email us via our Contact Page.