Certificate: TESOL Certification
Montreal, Canada
Certificate
DURATION
290 hours
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: This TESOL Certification at Canada College is an integrated 290 hours program of six one-week units combining courses, workshops and supervised teaching. You’ll study English language systems, second-language learning, lesson design, materials development, assessment and complete a supervised practicum. Certification hours can count toward the TESOL Diploma recognized by TESL Canada.
Career Outcomes: Completing the certificate prepares you for classroom teacher, private tutor, curriculum developer, teaching assistant and language program coordinator roles in language schools, colleges, adult education centers or international schools. You’ll gain practical skills in lesson planning, assessment, materials creation and classroom management for ESL/EFL instruction, teacher training.
TESOL Certification
Objectives:
- Explore different methodologies, materials, and technologies
- Learn more about language and theories of second language learning
- Engage in meaningful interactions with Canadian and International colleagues
- Immerse yourself in English and Montreal culture.
The program provides an integrated curriculum of courses, workshops, and supervised student teaching organized around six, one-week units
- Foreign Language Experience
- Language Awareness
- Phonology
- Student Profile
- Teaching Techniques
- Teaching Practice and Observation
- Materials Project
- Assessment
The Language System of English
Discuss theories on the origins of language; compare writing systems; experience how sounds are produced (phonology), how sound patterns make up the English language (phonetics), how words are formed (morphology), sentences are structured (syntax), meaning is conveyed (semantics) and languages are used (pragmatics).
Teaching, Learning and Assessing
Talk about how languages are learned, how the four skills (reading, writing, listening & speaking) fit into a model of communicative competence, and what all of this means for designing classroom activities and assessing student performance.
Language Classroom Practices
Learn how to plan lessons, design activities, and assess learners. Become familiar with techniques for promoting interaction, providing feedback, utilizing textbooks, developing one’s own materials, dealing with mixed ability level groups, incorporating strategy training in lessons, and managing a classroom.
Student Teaching Practicum
Gain hours of supervised team-student teaching. Participants have an opportunity to implement the materials they have developed and the concepts they have learned over the week, as well as receive feedback from experienced teachers. *For more details on the content of this program, you may contact our TESOL Department and ask for the TESOL booklet.
TESOL Diploma
Recognized by TESL Canada
Note: Students who have already completed our TESOL Certification are eligible to enroll into our Diploma program. Courses already completed during their certification will be taken into account. We encourage our past students to apply for the TESOL Diploma by contacting our college to start their admission process. Duration: 290 hours.
