TESOL Certificate Program - Asia and Mexico

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This graduate level certificate program allows participants to acquire the specialized training and skills needed for a successful career teaching or preparing to teach ESL in a non-native English speaking country. University of San Diego (USD) instructors will provide new innovative insights, activities, and techniques which can be integrated into the classroom.

What benefits will you gain?

• Enhance professional career opportunities
• Prepares you to study at the graduate level in the United States
• Receive six units of credit towards a graduate degree in the School of Leadership and Education Sciences
• Improve your English while learning from master teachers
• USD instructors will teach the onsite and online courses
• Learn new and practical classroom skills from specialists
• Classes offered on the weekends and online
• Program is affordable

The TESOL Certificate Program is taught by highly-qualified professional who have masters degrees with years of teacher training experience.

Group Numbers:
Minimum of 15, maximum of 20

Program Costs:
TBD based on location of the program

Length of Program:
120 hours to complete program.  Program is held in your country and offered at a location and during times convenient for your school.  Courses are held on weekends.  

Program Goals:

• Learn the latest methods of effective language instruction
• Examine current theories in language acquisition
• Learn how to implement these theories in the classroom

Program Courses:

Introduction to Second Language Acquisition (SLA) Theories
Students will trace the historical development of the theories and concepts in the field of SLA, and study methods of implementing current theories in the ESL classroom.

Methods of Teaching ESL
Students will synthesize theoretical knowledge in the field of linguistics and second language acquisition with the ‘practice’ of creating materials and utilizing instructional methodologies in the ESL classroom.

Linguistics for Teaching English to Students of Other Languages
Students will gain an understanding of important concepts in the field of linguistics as it applies to pedagogical methods and language learning in an ESL classroom.

Assessment and Evaluation in ESL
Students will understand key concepts in the assessment and evaluation of the curriculum, syllabus design, and the testing of ESL students.

Practicum:  Field Research in an ESL Classroom
Students will survey various aspects of an ESL classroom including such areas as classroom interaction, teacher views, student views, teaching styles, and classroom format.  They will observe one aspect that interests them and write a critical paper based on their observations.  Students will also be required to teach one lesson in an ESL classroom.

Introduction to Sociolinguistics & Cross Cultural Communications
Students will learn about the dynamics of verbal and nonverbal communication and how social constructs influence the linguistic medium of communication.

Teaching Pronunciation
Students will learn various methodologies of teaching pronunciation to ESL students.

Technology in the ESL Classroom
Students will learn to use technology in the ESL classroom to supplement and enhance student learning.

Creating a Communicative Classroom
Students will learn various competencies and focus on the methods of developing a communicative classroom.

Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Students teaching ESL outside of the United States are required to take this elective course.  This course is designed to teach the National Standards of Teaching English as a Foreign Language.  Students will become familiar with the 5 Cs, and will learn to develop and carry out lesson plans in accordance with the national standards.

Teaching Grammar
Students will learn the various approaches for teaching grammar in the ESL classroom.  They will also learn methodologies of teaching particular grammatical points.

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