Certificate in English Language Teaching Online (CELTO)

What is CELTO?

The CELTO (Certificate in English Language Teaching Online) certification is at the forefront of providing quality education and preparation in English Language Teaching Online.

If you’re interested in teaching English online, full-time or part-time, the CELTO certification covers everything you need to know about teaching online and offers insight into how you can build your personal brand as an online teacher.

Why choose CELTO?

  • It is provided by INTESOL WORLDWIDE

  • It is fully accredited by ALAP (Awarding Language Acquisition for Professionals) and comes with complete course material and full support from a certified instructor.

  • No previous teaching experience or any prerequisite qualification is needed.

  • You can take it from anywhere in the world at your own flexibility and at your own convenience.

  • The certification will provide you with a solid foundation in teaching theory and methodology, focused on preparing you to teach English online, providing you with practical and useful teaching skills necessary to deliver engaging English lessons.

  • You will be taught lesson planning, introducing a new language, managing an online classroom, designing teaching materials, different teaching techniques, phonics, grammar, error correction and much more.

  • There are no predetermined start dates and no time completion limit.

Course contents

Each CELTO unit consists of The Lesson & The Assessment.

Work through each lesson, completing all self-check exercises and assignments within it. These are not submitted for marking. They are useful to your learning process and allow you to build your course notes into a guide that you can use when you are teaching, if you wish.

The tests in the Assessment section are marked automatically and, if incorrect, you will be given hints for improvement. You will be able to resubmit and raise your score. Carefully reading the lesson will increase your chances of passing the assessment from the first attempt.

At the end of the CELTO course, after you have passed the assessment in unit 10, you will be given access to the Final Assignment, which sums up the main concepts you have learned. This Assignment is to be submitted to your trainer for grading.

Tutor Support & Technical Support

If you have any TESOL-related questions or technical issues during the course, feel free to contact your trainer via email. At the end of the course, your trainer will grade your Final Assignment.

Resubmissions

If you receive a U (uncategorized) grade, this does not mean that you have failed. In this case you will be given the opportunity to resubmit your assignment (three attempts maximum).

Module Structure

Introduction to Teaching Online
  • learn about the benefits of teaching online
  • consider the qualities that a successful online teacher should possess
  • reflect on the role of a teacher in the modern learning environment
Bringing About Success
  • learn how to stimulate students to produce language
  • learn how to teach and not to lecture
  • learn how to minimise silence and improve students’ fluency
The Basic Principles of All TEFL/TESOL teaching
  • gain a basic understanding of the principles of good ESOL teaching
  • reflect on the importance of a caring environment in the classroom
  • become familiar with principles and techniques of communicative teaching
Teaching Grammar
  • understand how Communicative Methodology can make the study of grammar exciting
  • understand how students’ native language may interfere with their learning of English grammar
  • learn the difference between teaching grammar deductively and inductively
  • find a step-by-step guide for preparing a good grammar lesson
Teaching Pronunciation
  • understand the reasons why students mispronounce English words
  • learn how to diagnose pronunciation problems by considering students’ L1
  • become familiar with the International Phonetic Alphabet
  • consider some common pronunciation problems
  • learn two techniques of teaching pronunciation
Planning Your Teaching
  • learn about the benefits of preparing a solid lesson plan and risks of not preparing one
  • take a look at the process of lesson planning, from setting the aims to self-evaluation
  • learn how to structure a lesson according to the Presentation-Practice- Production model
Finding and Keeping Your Students
  • weigh the pros and cons of working for an online school vs working on you own
  • learn how to find a good online school
  • consider the factors that will help you build a strong client base
  • learn the benefits of a free diagnostic lesson
  • find out about online learning platforms to choose from
Practice, Production and Progress
  • reflect on ways to cultivate a conducive student ‘lifestyle’
  • consider ways to overcome the constraints of learning English in a different language environment
  • learn about some tactics of organising group lessons
  • look at production as a way to measure student progress
Designing Materials and Courses
  • understand why it is helpful to design a long-term plan for your online course
  • practice planning a course
  • find the links to some useful sources of materials for your course
  • learn why it is a good idea to create your own materials and what kinds of materials you can create
Establishing and Growing an Online Presence
  • learn how to market yourself and build your online presence using social media and advertising
  • find out about ways to create your own website
  • plan your own online TEFL business

190 Hour Certificate in TEFL

What is 190Hour TESOL?

The INTESOL 190-hour TESOL Certificate contains a high quality academic content and is not only respected by employers, but also provides the perfect platform from which to begin your English teaching career. The 190-hour Certificate in TESOL includes 40 hours of online observed and assessed teaching practice, which means you can earn a CELTA/Trinity equivalent qualification with much more flexibility.

Study the theory online in your own time and then take the online teaching practice when it is convenient for you. Get your internationally recognized TESOL certificate with teaching practice without having to give up 4 weeks of your time!

Why THIS online TEFL course?

  • You can study this TESOL course online from your desktop, laptop or mobile device whenever and wherever you want.

  • There are no set start dates and no time limit. You have the freedom and flexibility to fit your TESOL studies around your lifestyle. You can even study on the beach!

  • INTESOL Worldwide has been training TEFL/TESOL teachers for over 26 years and is well known and respected in the TEFL/TESOL industry. This means your TEFL/TESOL certification will be instantly recognised internationally as being of excellent quality.

  • The 190 Hour TESOL course is externally accredited, meaning the content and teaching methods have been scrutinised externally to meet industry standards. This means you can be sure you’ll participate in a fruitful learning experience.

  • Your tutor will be an experienced teacher holding a Diploma in TESOL as a minimum qualification (many have a Masters in TESOL). They will offer you all the support and feedback you need to succeed to the best of your ability.

Course structure

Within twenty-four hours of enrolling in your online TESOL course you will receive your login details for the INTESOL Online Campus. The course consists of five units (a total of eleven modules). Each module has a lesson that you will study at your own pace and an assignment that you will submit for grading by your tutor.

When your assignment has been graded you will receive a notification by email and be able to view your grade, plus any guidance and feedback, on the campus. If you happen to fail a module, don’t worry, you will be given the opportunity to resubmit your assignment after a little extra coaching. There are no final examinations. As soon as your last assignment has been graded you will be able to view your final grade. Your final grade is calculated by taking the average of your ten grades for the ten assessed modules. This will be the grade shown on your Certificate in TESOL.

A low-cost, time effective format and accessible by anyone wherever they are in the world is the INTESOL online Teaching Practice. All you need is a computer, webcam, headset and fast internet connection. You will be given lessons to prepare. Your lesson plans and materials will be emailed to the Director of Studies in the school whose students you will be teaching.

You will be asked to suggest dates, and lessons will be arranged at times mutually convenient for you and the school. You will be able to decide whether to do your lessons on the same or different days. You will also have the option of planning and delivering just one group initially so that you can draw on the experience to plan the following group. You will be expected to plan 6 lessons of 40 minutes each. You will be sent details of the lessons you must plan. The INTESOL Online Teaching Practice is a totally flexible, convenient method of earning a CELTA/Trinity equivalent TESOL qualification COMPLETELY ONLINE!

Unit 1: Study Skills (not assessed) How best to organise your study time. Personal motivation Planning and organising study time; timetabling, study periods, realistic planning Study techniques; making notes, concept maps, nuclear notes, mnemonics 5 step reading techniques; selection, recognition, extraction, organisation and transfer of information How the course works; role of tutor, tutor assessed and self-study tasks.
Unit 2: The Study of English Module 1 – Deductive Analysis and use of grammars – parts of speech and grammatical terminology – the tense system, reported speech, active and passive

Module 2 – Elements of pronunciation: intonation including rising and falling tones, sentence stress, weak forms – sounds of the language/phonology; word stress, schwa sound, phonemic chart – teaching a ‘pronunciation point’.

Module 3 – Lexis selection: frequency and appropriacy – lexis formation: synonyms and antonyms, word stems, parts of speech including prefixes and suffixes.
Unit 3: The Teaching and Learning of ESOL Module 1 – Overview of ESOL issues – being a caring teacher, involving students, using realistic language, keeping the student’s attention, teacher talking time, correction, levels in ESOL teaching, visual aids, use of mother tongue; teaching for exams: Cambridge ESOL, Professional English Examinations, TOEFL etc; the role of grammar, classroom techniques, one to one teaching.

Module 2 – Listening and Reading: skills and the textbook, different kinds of listening, available materials – reading in a foreign language; types of reading, types of texts, writing comprehension questions, stages of reading activities, designing reading activities.

Module 3 – Speaking and Writing; what it’s like speaking in a foreign language, setting up speaking activities, types of speaking activities, discreet sound teaching, issues in teaching writing, the nature of writing as a skill, organising and planning writing activities.

Module 4 – Visual Aids; study of all the audio-visual aids available – production of your own flashcards and aids to be used with a simple flannelgraph.

Module 5 – Error – looking at authentic student errors, classifying them, using a correction code, producing remedial exercises and improving your own practice.
Unit 4: Classroom Management and Assessment Module 1 – Learning and teaching; seating, name, teacher talk time, use of questions, ways of differentiating, managing interruptions, learning styles – Lesson Stages and Plans.

Module 2 – Parts and stages of a lesson – time management, group, needs analysis, writing aims and objectives, predicting problems, sample lesson plans at a range of levels.

Accreditation

The 190 Hour Certificate in TESOL online course is accredited by ALAP (Awarding Language Acquisition for Professionals), a UK based Awarding Organisation. ALAP is an accrediting organisation that specialises in the ELT industry. ALAP is supported by an esteemed Academic Panel who are all experts in the field of English Language Teaching. The ALAP panel oversee matters related to academic quality, ensuring that the value of an ALAP Certificate is upheld.

For the 190-hour INTESOL Certificate in TESOL, the overall aim is to provide a thorough course which includes a balance between the theory, methodology and practice of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and to thoroughly prepare our trainees for teaching in any overseas environment.

Eligibility

This course is open to those with a good academic background, usually graduate status; qualified teacher status, or at least 2 ‘A’ levels or equivalent. If you are unsure of your eligibility, please email us at lyndahazelwood@intesoltesoltraining.com.

Duration of the course

The length of time it takes to complete the course depends on your other commitments. There are approximately 190 hours of work in the course. As a general guideline most students complete the course within 3-6 months, however if more time is required this is not a problem.

Award of Certificate

INTESOL TESOL Certificates are graded as follows:

Pass Good Very Good Excellent Distinction
C B2 B1 A2 A1

Certificate in Teaching Business English

Business English teaching can be incredibly fun as you teach learners who have high levels of motivation & who know what they want and need.

So, why not exploit an emerging market and increase your profit?

Course content

  1. Types of E.S.P.
 This unit looks at the purpose for which the student needs to learn English, ie occupational. eg hospital medical staff, academic eg those intending to study in English mother tongue higher education establishments for science & technology, etc.
  1. Class profiles, needs analysis and motivation
 This unit teaches you how to Identify learner groups and their motivation and provides you with ways of how to increase learners’ motivation and maintaining it.
  1. Testing and Examinations
 This unit encompasses on placement and diagnostic tests, progress tests, types
of testing etc. (Test design, marking and monitoring progress.)
  1. English for Academic Purposes
 This unit looks at different types of exercises and identifying the purpose of each, note writing, summary skills, etc.
  1. English for Occupational purposes
 This unit focuses on anaphoric and cataphoric reference, substitution, ellipsis, coherence markers etc. (Planning lessons on notetaking, telephone skills, negotiating skills, presentation skills, meeting skills, small talk skills, etc.).
  1. Lesson and Syllabus planning
 This unit helps you on how to choose textbooks & design your own materials. (Designing a syllabus and detailed lesson plans from given class profiles or your own students.)

After each unit you are requested to do a TASK and submit to your trainer to assess.

There are no exams, the course is continually assessed.