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Success on Your Certificate Course in English Language Teaching

A Guide to Becoming a Teacher in ELT/TESOL

Success on Your Certificate Course in English Language Teaching
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'Extremely comprehensive and well written in terms of style accessible to the reader, but intelligent and expressing some fairly subtle concepts. Would that more ELT practitioners could do the same!.. Certainly a good read for those thinking about and also those engaged in initial training or even post initial training stage' - Jenny Pugsley, Head of TESOL, Trinity College London. Each year, thousands of people all over the world take one of the hundreds of available short pre-service courses that lead to the award of a certificate in English Language Teaching (ELT) or Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Caroline Brandt's book is an invaluable guide to anyone thinking of enrolling on one of these courses. With a clear and concise structure that follows your general interest in TESOL right through to the intricacies of the course itself, it can be used from initial research stages to final qualifications, and beyond. Brandt's decades of experience in this field across the globe shine through. Chapters include: "introducing English Language Teaching. "becoming qualified. "knowing your certificate course. "getting started. "learning. "working together. "being qualified. Throughout the book there are snapshots of students' experiences in their own words, and summaries of key points for you to take with you - whether into the next stage of learning or the next day's teaching. The chapters are stand alone resources as well as the building blocks to becoming a fully-qualified English Language teacher. The book is supported by a companion website, which provides quizzes to test understanding of each chapter, lesson plan proformas, a full glossary and annotated website links.
Sage Publications Ltd.; July 2006
241 pages; ISBN 9781847878717
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