The 130 hour TEFL course in Granada is a professional teacher training program that provides the necessary skills and experience to teach English

The main features of the TEFL course include:

• 130 hours syllabus
• Internationally recognised certification
• High practical content (8-10 observed/graded teaching practice hours with groups and individual students)
• Extensive teaching practice with different levels of English language learners
• Internationally experienced trainers and mentors
• Job guidance and placement assistance
• Courses almost every month
• Accommodation available
• Welcome get-together

TEFL certificate courses have a very practical emphasis and deal primarily with the real skills and knowledge needed by teachers in the classroom. Whilst the course timetable may vary slightly from course to course, the content will always remain the same. Threaded throughout the course are continuous mentoring and learning assessment/feedback. People skills and personal qualities critical to the development of effective teaching will also be assessed. Final exams and course completion standards are also used to determine certificate satisfaction status.

The TEFL course is divided into seven main areas:

1. Teaching Practice

This is the most fundamental and practical area of any TEFL/TESOL course. Trainees teach real students of English and put into practice the skills learnt on the course. Trainees are introduced to this area via input sessions and observation of demonstration lessons. Each teaching practice includes lesson preparation, teaching students, observer feedback and evaluation. The series of teaching practices are carefully designed to integrate with trainee learning from the other main course areas.

2. Foreign Language Experience

The trainees receive training in an unknown foreign language to reflect on the experience of being a learner, and how this might direct their own teaching, and help them to understand and adapt to their English language students needs.

3. Language Awareness

The trainees need to make the transition from simply being a native of their language to being technically knowledgeable in English. While academically this includes language mechanics, it must also include cultural use and understanding. Major topics are:

• Grammar. Covers word classes, simple sentence elements, complex sentences and clauses, verb time and tense, aspect and conditionals and modals, phrasals and voice.
• Phonology. Covers phonemics, word stress and intonation, sentence stress and intonation, rhythm and intonation, and connected speech.

4. Student Profile

Trainees work with individual students on rapport-building, needs analysis, error analysis and correction, and addressing individual student needs. Three meetings with the student are required, they include student profiling, transcription and error analysis of audio and written samples, and culminate in a 60-minute lesson. A documented record is required and graded.

5. Teaching Techniques

This component of the course covers areas such as:

• Lesson planning
• Classroom management
• Establishing rapport
• Discipline in the classroom
• Managing equipment and teaching aids
• Creating materials
• Correction techniques
• Evaluation and testing
• Teaching vocabulary
• Teaching grammar
• Teaching receptive skills (reading and listening)
• Teaching productive skills (speaking and writing)
• Games in the classroom
• Songs in the classroom
• Teaching beginner students
• Teaching individual students
• Teaching business English
• Teaching young learners

6. Materials Project

All trainees must develop two sets of materials used during the teaching practice. Each set must be durable, capable of being used for more than one lesson context and easily portable. The materials may include visuals, realia, audio or videotape, cue cards and class handouts, but may not be simply photocopied from published sources.

Trainees are required to adapt materials from commercial sources, or develop original materials. The summation of this project is a report on how the materials were used, how they could be improved and how they might be used in another context.

7. Job and Career Guidance

During and after your TEFL course, you will receive job guidance and assistance including the following:

• Professional advice on preparing a TEFL teaching CV.
• Aspects of the international EFL market.
• Individual career guidance sessions on request.
• Professional advice on EFL interview structures and techniques.
• Contact and networking for the local and national ESL and EFL industry, and approaches for countries where you may wish to work.
• Details of job vacancies received. Some of these are via agencies, schools or contacts and are not posted on the internet or otherwise advertised elsewhere.
• Ongoing lifelong help and guidance after completing the course, from all partner training centres. Wherever you want to work tomorrow, the chances are we know someone who knows someone etc.
• Professional references on request at any time from your training centre staff.
• The continuing assistance in job search, both on-site and in person while you're taking your course, and by personal email/phone contact afterwards.