TESOL CERTIFICATION DETAILS

LanguageCorps' academic staff has over 30 years of experience in the English language-training field, both in pure academics and in day-to-day teaching in classrooms worldwide. The LanguageCorps TESOL Certification course in Asia relies on this wealth of experience to combine the best and most current academic thinking in the TESOL field with decades of hands-on wisdom from practical teaching in remote areas of the world.

The 140+ hour, four-week course integrates the aspects of real teaching that we have found most important:

• Ninety hours of classroom-based Academic Inputs
• Approximately thirty hours of Language and Cultural Awareness Training
• Up to thirty hours of Teaching Practice and Observation

LanguageCorps' Language and Cultural Awareness program is designed to:

• Give you the local language skills necessary for daily life in Southeast Asia
• Put you in the learner's seat, re-acquainting you with the struggle to acquire a new language
• Let you be part of the learning process
• Provide a major cultural overview and orientation to local customs – what's polite and acceptable, how to fit in, the importance of making an effort toward understanding, etc.

LanguageCorps' Teaching Practice program is similarly goal-based:

• You will typically be seeing the same students on a regular basis for 8 to 10 hours each week, so your lessons will be continuous, one building-on and leading-to the next. The students you teach are actually your students, allowing you to plan from class to class based on student progress and need.
• Your teaching assignment will often be a local community resource (hospital, police station, city hall, orphanage, immigration office, etc.) so your teaching time directly benefits the community. By the end of the class, your students will have had approximately thirty hours of English Language classes, free. This may not seem like much, but it is approximately the same number of hours a class in many public schools will get in one academic year.