350 hour Online Diploma in TESOL

TESOL Diploma Accreditation

Am I Eligible for the INTESOL Diploma in TESOL?

What are the TESOL Diploma Course Aims?

What is the TESOL Diploma Course Structure

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Diploma in TESOL Course Contents

Unit 1: Being an Efficient Distance Learner
study skills - managing your time efficiently - organising your schedule - note-taking - overcoming the loneliness of the distance learner - how this course works

Unit 2: Semantics/Language Awareness
Module 1 - form and function - lexical meaning: denotation, connotation, synonyms, antonyms, hyponyms, polysemes, homonyms - the importance of collocation - time and tense - presents - past tenses - futurity - conditionals and hypothetical meaning
Module 2 - progressive and perfect aspects: form and meaning - the progressive aspect and stative verbs - form and meaning of the perfect aspect - sentence structure: units of language; sentence elements
Module 3 - negatives: types of negation - questions: question types - modality - word classes and phrases - adjectives and adverbs - determiners
Module 4 - prepositions and multi-word verbs - word formation: morphemes

Unit 3: Phonology and Phonetics
Module 1 - attitudes to pronunciation teaching - terminology in phonology and phonetics - organs of speech - phonemes - the phonemic chart - consonants: description and practical applications - vowels - cardinal vowels chart - diphthongs - place of articulation - research based project - materials evaluation
Module 2 - the syllable - consonant clusters - strong and weak syllables - word and sentence stress - the 'schwa' sound - marking stress - primary and secondary stress - tendencies in word stress - research based project - weak forms - English as a time-stressed language - Features of connected speech - Materials evaluation
Module 3 - spoken and written forms - intonation - tone units - the tonic syllable - pitch movement - intonation and discourse - teaching and learning intonation - research based project - pronunciation and 'which' English - are native speakers the best ESOL teachers? - Strategies for personal development in the teaching of pronunciation

Unit 4: Psycholinguistics
Module 1 - attitudes toward language teaching - good language learners: characteristics and strategies - the teacher's influence on learner strategies - cognitive strategies - metacognitive strategies - communication strategies - social strategies - learner training - learner training materials evaluation - research based project - observation task
Module 2 - motivation - motivational factors - the teacher's influence - motivational differences - learner styles - Multiple Intelligence Theory - research based project
Module 3 - first language acquisition: behaviourism, innatism, interactionism - second language acquisition: behaviourism, innatism (aka cognitivism), information processing, interactionism.

Unit 5: Discourse Analysis
Module 1 - brief history of Discourse Analysis: structuralism, sociolinguistics, post-modernist - coherence in language - cognitive interpretation of language: Schema Theory - social context of language - political context of language - approaches to encourage coherence in discourse (practical case) - discourse communicative methodology and student centredness
Module 2 - teacher talk in the ESOL class - turn-taking research - text structure: cohesive devices (lexical cohesion, tense concordance, pronoun referencing, article referencing, conjunctions, ellipsis, substitution, parallelism) - cohesive devices in the classroom: a practical case - differences between written and spoken language - discourse intonation - teaching discourse intonation in the ESOL classroom - transcribing spoken language

Unit 6: Syllabus Design
Module 1 - pros and cons of a syllabus - types of syllabus - needs analysis - planning the syllabus - action research project

Unit 7: Materials Design and Exploitation
Module 1 - evaluating course books - exploiting published materials - resources and technology - using the internet - adapting authentic materials - action research project

Unit 8: Methodology
Module 1 - Second Language Acquisition Theory - behaviourism versus cognitivism - the natural approach - the lexical approach - more recent approaches and views on the teaching-learning relationship

Unit 9: Teacher Development
Module 1 - factors that contribute to teacher demotivation - a basis for professional progress - peer training - sources of valuable feedback - meetings as a forum for sharing reflections and further development - practical ideas for moving forward as a teacher: practical case

Unit 10: English as a World Language
Module 1 - English as an international language - English in the country you wish to teach and research project - standard English and varieties of English - teaching language and culture - teaching in monolingual and multilingual classes - implications for teaching: practical cases

What is the duration of the TESOL Diploma course

The length of time it takes to complete this course depends on your other commitments. There are approximately 300-350 hours of work in the course. As a general guideline most students complete the course in a period of 6-12 months, but we understand that some people will need less time, and if more time is needed that is also not a problem.

Award of TESOL Diploma

The INTESOL Diploma in TESOL is graded as follows:

• A1 - Distinction, outstanding work
• A2 - Excellent
• B1 - Very Good
• B2 - Good
• C   - Pass

Diploma in TESOL Course Fees

£895 paid in full on registration

£960 paid in 3 instalments of £320

For all fees 1st instalment is payable on registration, 2nd instalment is due one calendar month later and 3rd instalment one calendar month later.

Please note: There are no set start dates. You decide when you start. You will be given a username and password to access your course and all instructions online.

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