{"id":2165,"date":"2017-02-02T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2017-02-08T17:05:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T16:05:39","slug":"english-language-teacher-training-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/2017\/02\/english-language-teacher-training-course\/","title":{"rendered":"English Language Teacher Training &#8211; Free Online Introductory Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Future Learn, an online learning platform, is offering a free English Language Teacher Training course aimed at prospective TEFL teachers. The course, entitled <strong>&#8216;Exploring the World of English Language Training<\/strong>&#8216;, discusses what TEFL teachers need to know about the language, the skills they will need and the type of resources available. The courses starts on 13th February and runs for 6 weeks.\u00a0Future learn have produced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9GNcIHQz0JU\" target=\"_blank\">short video<\/a> outlining the course.<\/p>\n<h3>Who can take the free English Language Teacher Training course?<\/h3>\n<p>If you live\u00a0in the UK and English teaching is something you might be considering then this course is perfect. You&#8217;ll get the chance to watch practising TEFL teachers and listen to feedback from their students. During the course, experienced teacher trainers will cover different aspects over 6 weeks. Requiring only 2 hours of study per week, this taster course may help you to decide whether TEFL teaching is for you.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurelearn.com\/courses\/explore-elt\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to enrol on the February course or to register and interest in future ELT courses.<\/p>\n<h3>The Next Step<\/h3>\n<p>Past students have used this free course as a preparatory course for the Cambridge CELTA courses. The CELTA qualification is becoming essential for those interested in working in ELT in the UK and elsewhere. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lsi.edu\/en\/schools\/england\/learn-english-in-brighton\" target=\"_blank\">LSI Brighton<\/a> run CELTA courses throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>For more details \u00a0about CELTA dates and prices <a href=\"mailto:bri@lsi.edu\">contact the school<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2172 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Teaching-EnglishBlog.jpg\" alt=\"Student teacher on English Language Teacher Training course\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Teaching-EnglishBlog.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Teaching-EnglishBlog-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Future Learn, an online learning platform, is offering a free English Language Teacher Training course aimed at prospective TEFL teachers.&nbsp;[&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[120,30],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lsi-courses","tag-celta","tag-lsi-brighton","post-item clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2180,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}