Success on your Certificate Course in English Language Teaching: A guide to becoming a teacher in ELT/TESOL

Each year, thousands of people all over the world take one of the hundreds of available short pre-service courses that lead to the award of a certificate in English Language Teaching (ELT) or Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Caroline Brandt′s book is an invaluable guide to anyone thinking of enrolling in one of these courses. With a clear and concise structure that follows your general interest in TESOL right through to the intricacies of the course itself, it can be used from initial research stages to final qualifications, and beyond. Brandt′s decades of experience in this field across the globe shine through.

Chapters include:

• Introducing English Language Teaching
• Becoming qualified
• Knowing your certificate course
• Getting started
• Learning
• Teaching
• Working together
• Succeeding
• Being qualified
• An ELT/TESOL Toolkit

Throughout the book there are snapshots of student′s experiences in their own words, and summaries of key points to take with you - into the next stage of learning or the next day′s teaching. The chapters are stand alone entities as well as the building blocks to becoming a fully-qualified English Language teacher.

Dr. Caroline Brandt has worked across the globe teaching ELT and has over two decades of experience. She currently teaches in Brunei and resides in Switzerland, on Lake Geneva.