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TEFL!!!How to prepare for course?

  • 16-07-2012 08:21PM
    #1
    tommmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 147 ✭✭


    Hi,

    So i am going to be doing a TEFL course in a few days..

    And i would like some feedback from people who know or people who have done the course, how do i prepare for the course?

    I understand its quite intense but i would like to know how to be prepared?

    Any help would be greatly appreciated

    Thank you

    Tom


Comments

  • #2
    Avery
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭Avery


    Try and read a book by Harmer called something like "How to teach English"...


  • #3
    Powerhouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,428 ✭✭✭Powerhouse


    The book mentioned will surely be recommended alright. Would suggest concentrating on teacher activity - as in what the teacher should be doing during different activities, rather than reading the book cover to cover.

    You will be surprised at how poor your knowledge of English grammar and its terminology is shown to be during the course but I would not recommend doing a crash course on that. It will come gradually.

    I have done a Primary degree and three post-graduate courses but never came across anything with the intensity of this course. Not saying it's hell on earth altogether but anyone I knew doing it hugely underestimated it - probably because entry requirements for the course are not enormous and it probably has an 'easy' image - I mean when someone's a native English speaker what can possibly go wrong?! But quite a few of my group dropped out after under-estimating the time and commitment involved* and others struggled to perform in the classroom and didn't make it to the end as a result. It is not a course to do if you have much else on your plate at the time.

    * I did a part-time course which maybe was different. If someone is doing, say, a month-long full-time course one presumes they will be ready for a full-time commitment!


  • #4
    Brokentime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 287 ✭✭Brokentime


    Avery wrote: »
    Try and read a book by Harmer called something like "How to teach English"...

    You don't even need to read this to prepare for a TEFL course, but if you did it would make the TEFL very easy.

    Just keep an open mind and do the course; it'll open the topic up to you and then you can follow it up by reading books like the Harmer one above, or Jim Scrivener's 'Learning Teaching'


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