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Topic: some help with this school

Posted By: dave512
Subject: some help with this school
Date Posted: 01 April 2008 at 16:03

Hi,

I am thinking of doing the 120 hour cert TEFL with the London Teacher Training College. I only want to work for between 6 months to a year in France as I am interested in learning french and want to live abroad for a bit.

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Posted By: chaichara
Date Posted: 02 May 2008 at 23:27

Assuming you mean the distance learning course, much depends on your personal requirement. Some people do a TESOL course because they want to learn how to teach, others do one because they want a paper qualificatiobn to get a teaching job. The LTTC course will provide a great deal of excellent teaching theory from a linguisitics angle - there is some fairly difficult IPA stuff to get through, and it's stuff you'll never need to know or use. The real test of the LTTC course is of your capacity to write assignments based on the course material and further reading. Where the course fails, is in its total lack of preparing one for the real classroom situation, it rather leaves one in the deep end. For people with a natural talent for communication skills it is a worthwhile solution to obtaining a qualification.
If you need to gain confidence for the practical side of teaching, which is perhaps of more value, then you should opt for a face-to-face course.
If it's theory and linguistics that interest you more, I can recommend the LTTC course.

Posted By: TrustedTEFLReviews
Date Posted: 09 May 2019 at 15:10

I can second that.

If you are looking to gain training in the country where you want to be teaching then you will probably need to opt for an Online TEFL course, but if you don't feel the need to train in your target country then an Online TEFL certificate will be absolutely fine.

Btw, if you do read somewhere that Online TEFL courses are a waste of money then check who the post was written by. Chances are it was written by an Onsite TEFL course provider.

Onsite or Online: both are perfectly good options.

Mia.