TESL/TESOL/TEFL Certification Program

Course Description:

             The objective of the PALS TESL/TESOL/TEFL Certificate is to enable people with various educational backgrounds to teach English as a Second Language based on theory and practice in the United States or abroad.  Courses are designed to prepare teachers for ESL or EFL teaching.

 
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Courses

Teaching Methodology

(3 hours/week)

This course is designed to provide a historical overview of the approaches, methods, procedures and techniques of ESL/EFL teaching, from Grammar-translation to cognitive teaching.  It further looks into first and second language acquisition and learning, socio-psychological issues of language learning, current research, and practices of teaching ESL/EFL.

 

 

Teaching Language Skills

(6 hours/week)

This course is designed to provide an overview of the most recent theories, practices, and research on specific language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) and their components (phonology, morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to offer teaching methodologies for each skill and its subcomponents.

 

 

Language Assessment

(3 hours/week)

This course is designed to provide an overview of the theories and practices and research on ESL/EFL testing, different types of tests, and how to construct and validate a test (reliability, validity, and practicality) for different language skills.

 

 

Classroom Management

(3 hours/week)

This course is designed to provide an overview of pedagogical strategies and tasks for ESL/EFL teachers to interact with their students, to manage their classroom activities in a stress-free environment, to maintain discipline, to promote teaching and, consequently, to stimulate learning.

 

 

An Introduction to Linguistics

(3 hours/week)

This course is designed to provide prospective and current teachers with an overview of the origin of language, theories of the different schools of linguistics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and how they can incorporate their knowledge of linguistics into their ESL/EFL teaching.

 

 

Practicum

(6 hours/week)

This course is designed to teach prospective or present teachers how to plan their teaching, to design a scientific syllabus based upon the theories and practices of syllabus design, to prepare a sound lesson plan and, ultimately, to teach in an authentic and realistic classroom situation.
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Course Duration:

24 hours a week for 4 weeks = 96 hours

 

Requirements for Application:

1.  PALS Application Form

2.  Minimum, Seventeen (17) Years of Age

3.  B.A. or B.S., preferably in English, Education,
or Humanities, and mastery of English.
[Include copy of final transcript and diploma]

4. International candidates need a TOEFL score of 600
(250 CBT or 102 i-BT).  [Include copy of TOEFL score]

5. Tuition: $4,800.00

 Summer 2010

July 21–August 14

(4 weeks)

CERTIFICATE REQUIREMENTS:

A PALS, Rutgers-Newark TESL/TESOL/TEFL Certificate will be granted to those
who complete the program and obtain an average of B, with no grade lower than a B.