TESOL Certificate Course

The College of Education has adopted an internationally recognized program in English instruction pedagogy. It is recognized for its innovative methodology of English pedagogy with proven success at English instructional schools around the world.

The College of Education programs provide instruction to speakers of foreign languages to learn English fundamentals. Instruction will prepare students to learn English so that they may apply it in Education.

Program Description

The TESOL Certificate offers an intensive introduction to all areas of linguistics relevant to ESL/EFL students, morphology, phonology, and syntax. By the course end, students will understand how linguistic theory relates to the pedagogy of teaching the four skills (reading, writing, listening, and speaking) to ESL/EFL students.

The online certificate course covers instruction in the following areas:

• Foundations of TESOL
• Second Language Acquisition
• Teaching Speaking and Pronunciation
• Teaching Vocabulary
• Teaching Grammar
• Teaching Reading
• Teaching Listening
• Teaching Writing