4-week equivalent TEFL Course Barcelona, Spain

SIT TESOL Certificate

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Important Information

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Please note that the course dates are as follows:

7 August – 1 September

11 September - 13 October

23 October – 24 November

The September and October courses are both five weeks in duration.

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Course Details

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Course Description

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This course comprises 130 hours of input and provides participants with professional knowledge and skills in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) as well as tools for their own reflection and growth as teachers.

The course provides practical training through teaching demonstrations, lesson planning and analysis, and practice teaching and feedback. Participants develop skills in teaching, speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar and culture. The course begins with a brief look at second language acquisition through the experience of being a learner. Participants then examine specific teaching areas each day, which they apply in their daily practice teaching of adult ESOL learners. Participants gain skills in analysis through examining their lessons with teacher trainers.

The TESOL course focuses on three main areas:

Learning
Participants engage in a language-learning experience in order to explore the relationship between language learning, teaching, and aspects of second language acquisition from the point of view of the learner. This experience provides the foundation for the examination of teaching practices.

Teaching
Participants examine the theory and practice of planning, teaching, grammar, culture, and assessing lessons in the four skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) through experiential activities, teaching demonstrations, discussions, lesson planning, materials development, and readings.

Classroom practices
Participants put their new knowledge and skills into practice through daily teaching sessions. Trainers observe and facilitate feedback sessions after these lessons. Participants learn to reflect on and assess their own teaching as well as to examine the teaching of their peers.


Graduates of the course find challenging teaching positions in the U.S. and abroad, or return to their current jobs with new skills and greater knowledge, awareness, and satisfaction. To facilitate networking, the course provider maintains a listserv that connects graduates of all the TESOL courses that it offers.

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Accommodation Options

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Most participants opt to share an apartment with others. This costs around 350 - 400 euros a month. Trainees are responsible for finding their own housing, however advice and information on how to go about this is readily available from the school.

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School Details - Barcelona Provenca

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The centre is a private school that has been providing language training since 1977. It is located in the most dynamic area of the city, right in the commercial and financial center of Barcelona and is perfectly connected to the city’s various means of transportation – metro, bus, "ferrocarril," bicycle, auto. The school building, dating from the turn of the 20th century, is in the "Eixample Barcelonés" neighbourhood and is in a pedestrian zone surrounded by sidewalk cafés, restaurants and bars, where you can sit outdoors and enjoy the exceptional climate of the city.

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How to Apply

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Prices and Dates

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