Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) Program

Offered during winter and spring quarters (January-June), the super-intensive TEFL program helps participants develop knowledge and practical skills to teach English as a foreign language to students whose primary language is not English in countries outside of the U.S. This program combines practical classroom training and U.S. cultural study with experiential English language learning and teaching. It is designed especially for people who are studying to be or are already EFL teachers in their own countries and are interested in obtaining practical training in the U.S.

These classes build proficiency in the four critical skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking), grammar and pronunciation.† Participants have daily access to our Multimedia Resource Center, a resource library and observation and discussion of ESL classes in a wide range of student communities. The TEFL component is based upon a reflective yet participatory model of teacher education and may include the following seminars:

• Methodology, Proficiency and Approaches to Learning Styles
• Teacher/Learner Roles and Relationships
• Textbook/Materials Evaluation, Adaptation and Development
• Correction Techniques
• Evaluation and Testing
• Classroom Organization and Management
• Classroom Observation
• Teacher Practicum
• Lesson and Course Planning
• Teaching the Receptive Skills
• Teaching the Productive Skills
• Integrating the Four Skills
• Teaching Grammar
• Teaching Pronunciation
• Teaching Vocabulary
• Teaching Culture
• CALL and Other Teaching Aids
• Software and Other Resources
• Continuing Professional Development
• Proposal Writing/Conference Presentations
• Team Teaching

†Participants will be given an English placement test upon arrival and placed in their English courses accordingly. Students with intermediate language skills (below 500 TOEFL) are advised to begin their study in the fall. Students with very advanced language skills (600+ TOEFL) will have the option of substituting these classes with appropriate campus courses.