What is TEFL Course?

TEFL stands for ‘Teaching English as Foreign Language’. The close keen of TEFL is TESOL, which means ‘Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages’. TEFL and TESOL are synonymous terms. It is an international teachers training program where the teachers are given inputs on the latest advancements and advents in the field of education. The modules of the Distance or Online TEFL course cover Methodologies, the approaches to EFL teaching, Grammar and phonology, the teaching techniques (teaching listening, speaking, reading and writing), teaching young learners and Lesson planning among other inputs. The TEFL Course Certification is accredited by the most respected educational organizations in the United States of America giving the ATI course an internationally recognized standard. Another most important factor behind the recognition of a TEFL course is its value in the foreign teaching market. For teaching jobs abroad, the TEFL or TESOL certificate is absolutely mandatory as this vocational training is required by the schools for foreign teachers.