TESOL (Part-Time Hybrid)

Overview

In this highly practical Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages program from the School for International Training , you’ll learn theory and how to use it. You’ll use tested tools and tap into your own creativity to develop new tools that work in your classroom. Some of the key topics you’ll cover include:

• Personal, psychological, socio-cultural, biological, and linguistic factors that influence language development

• The intercultural and identity dimensions of language and cultural learning

• Multilingualism, linguistic and cultural diversity, and plurilinguistic pedagogies

• The regularities, meanings, and underlying systems of language, focusing on the phonology, grammar, and lexicon of English

• The theory underlying the teaching of the “four skills” — reading, writing, listening, and speaking — and how to design course lessons that develop and integrate learning in these skills

• A variety of approaches to language teaching, such as the Silent Way and Community Language Learning

• How to integrate past and present learning and teaching experiences in a variety of contexts

• How to design and assess curriculum

Career Areas

• Curriculum design

• Language institutes

• Language school development and management

• Language Teaching

• Nonprofits and NGOs

• Private High Schools

• Refugee Camps

• Teacher training

• Teaching

• Textbook Development 

• Universities