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Paul Todd:
Your most welcome  :)

It gives you a sound theoretical base as well as a good grounding in the practical side of things. It includes the all important lesson planning which is what you need most! Even if the school gives you all the books and tells you what you have to teach you still have to plan it out and this course sets you up nicely for that. It says it's 180 hours but you can do it in way less time than that.
If all you want is to arrive here with a teaching certificate which will open doors and make life easier in getting your Z visa, then the 60 hour TEFL will do just fine. I wanted something a little more in depth as I planned on teaching long term here.
The course fee includes everything you need and the exam fee's too so it's not a bad price at all. The Certificate itself does not say it was an on line course so it's the same one you would get if you actually went to a collage.
The best advice I could give would be to think about the age group you want to teach, as the approach is totally different. Would you feel happier singing "Old mac Donald had a farm" to a class of 5 year old's or teaching university students. Best of luck.....

Rhonald:
Well I could rather sing "Old MacDonald bought the Farm" but the University might slate me to teach Economics instead of English Euphemism Class.  ::)

Kiwi303:
Right, some good news :D my first assignment for my Dip.TESOL from LTTC is an "A"  :)


I'd have been flaming disappointed if it wasn't :P I'm doing it by Modules, rather than paying the whole 4 module course in one lump, as that is easier on my budget. But Module 1 was easy, Dead easy :D the only slowdown on things is waiting for my books to arrive as I buy them when cheaply available off online auctions as I'm too far to make browsing the shelves at a library much help.

Now to knock the other 7 assignments off with "A"s as well ;)

Paul Todd:

Keep up the "A" grades and it will be a distinction on your certificate!!! What was your first essay? Mine was the acquisition of language if I remember rightly! and my personal tutor was Mr. Sebastian Power.  :)

Kiwi303:
I chose the "Language is Communication: Discuss" option, Section A choice 4.

Essay lengths of 1,000+ is LOW compared to Uni of Waikato Management criteria of 3,000+ for essay assignments for first year students, up to 5000+ for .3xx level courses, as it is I ended up with a 1,757 words excluding title and bibliography, referencing to 2 management textbooks, a philosophy textbook, as well as the two TESOL books I picked up... I was wondering if it was really long and comprehensive enough so sent it along as a rough draft asking my tutor if it was good enough and did he have any suggestions on required clarifications, re-wording etc...

Email came back, A grade as is :P I hate to think what the 60 hour certs are like if Diplomas are this easy :D I must have high standards, at least when I use spell-checker! my forum posts and typical writing tends to be messy spelling-wise. I have to tidy up when doing formal writing.

I chose that assignment as the simplest subject I could reference large portions of to parts of books I had stashed in boxes in a shipping container down the farm, dating back to my Uni days.

Language as Communication was covered in my Media, Marketing and Business studies sections while at uni :P so that much I just needed to have suitable quotes and bibliographies :D I wrote most of the essay just from past knowledge :D


I have Tim Simmons as my tutor. Seems to be a nice guy, fast turnaround on emails :D

Just waiting on several teaching methodologies books and teachers resource books to arrive before lashing into assignment 2: section B, choice 8. Describe and discuss several teaching methods.

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