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You are looking to enter the TEFL industry as a new English language teacher.
You are hoping to apply for TEFL jobs in private schools or private lessons around the world.
You need the gold standard of TEFL certificates to validate your existing teaching credentials.
You are planning a gap year and want to use English language teaching as the foundation.
You are looking to develop real confidence in the classroom and provide your students with more value
The Cambridge CELTA is also a stepping stone to the prestigious DELTA (or the equivalent Trinity DipTESOL),
which is required for anyone looking to become a Director of Studies in a language school.
Prepare to pause your social life I recommend you let everyone know you are just not available during your
CELTA course. This is especially true of drinking buddies and amorous arrangements. Do whatever you need to
do to make yourself unavailable on your CELTA month (if youve decided on the intensive course option). On the
flip side of this point, its probably a good idea to spend some quality time with your friends and family before the
course starts.
Improve your grammar The CELTA course does not require trainees to possess a perfect understanding of
English grammar, but you will be teaching real students how to conceptualise the difference between tenses
(perfect, continuous, simple etc.), noun types (countable, uncountable etc.), verb types (phrasal, auxiliary etc.)
Now I remember once being only one lesson ahead of my students and I can honestly tell you it was incredibly
stressful, unprofessional and time-consuming. Imagine how much easier you can make your CELTA experience
if you can commit even just half of the tenses to memory before the course begins!
Relax Youre about to work almost non-stop for four weeks, so do whatever personally works for you to build
up some inner peace. Im not particularly spiritual myself, but I spent more time with my little son and went
fishing.
Stay Healthy You need to avoid falling ill so make sure you dont neglect vitamins, water, sleep and fresh air.
Luckily, youll also be provided with an official Cambridge ESOL Pre-Course Task Answer Key.
Remember that the Pre-Course Task is there to help you prepare, so I highly recommend you go through the
task first without the Answer Key and give it your best shot. Its a great opportunity to re-ignite those
slumbering academic brain cells!
Minimum of 80 additional learning hours for reading, research, assignment writing and lesson preparation.
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4. Planning and resources for different teaching contexts
5. Developing teaching skills and professionalism
Spread across these topics, are the 2 main components that trainee teachers are graded on:
Input Sessions
The input sessions are equivalent to normal academic study: The CELTA instructors will share their knowledge
and experience of how to teach English as a foreign language. An overview of the 5 topic modules will give you
some idea of the aims of the CELTA syllabus.
Topic 1 Learners and teachers, and the teaching and learning context
2.1 Basic concepts and terminology used in ELT for describing form and meaning in language and
language use
2.2 Grammar grammatical frameworks: rules and conventions relating to words, sentences,
paragraphs and texts
2.3 Lexis: Word formation, meaning and use in context
2.4 Phonology: The formation and description of English phonemes; features of connected speech
2.5 The practical significance of similarities and differences between languages
2.6 Reference materials for language awareness
2.7 Key strategies and approaches for developing learners language knowledge
3.1 Reading
3.1.1 Basic concepts and terminology used for describing reading skills
3.1.2 Purposes of reading
3.1.3 Decoding meaning
3.1.4 Potential barriers to reading
3.2 Listening
3.2.1 Basic concepts and terminology used for describing listening skills
3.2.2 Purposes of listening
3.2.3 Features of listening texts
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3.2.4 Potential barriers to listening
3.3 Speaking
3.3.1 Basic concepts and terminology used for describing speaking skills
3.3.2 Features of spoken English
3.3.3 Language functions
3.3.4 Paralinguistic features
3.3.5 Phonemic systems
3.4 Writing
3.4.1 Basic concepts and terminology used for describing writing skills
3.4.2 Subskills and features of written texts
3.4.3 Stages of teaching writing
3.4.4 Beginner literacy
3.4.5 English spelling and punctuation
3.5 Key strategies and approaches for developing learners receptive and productive skills
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Although they may be subject to change in future years, the written assignments are usually:
Lesson objectives are given to the trainees, who then go home and work on their own lesson plans,
incorporating much of what they have learned during the input sessions.
Usually the next day, the trainees and tutors discuss their lesson plans in detail, looking for areas or
activities that can be improved and anticipating any problems.
The trainees will then be given time to revise their lesson plans accordingly.
Then comes the classroom the part that most trainees initially dread where a maximum of 12
volunteer ESL students (often mixed nationality) wait patiently for their lesson.
Based on the CELTA tutors observations during the lesson, the trainee will be given feedback and
constructive criticism, which they are expected to incorporate into their next lesson plan.
and the cycle continues as above for the duration of the CELTA course.
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