60-HOUR FOUNDATIONS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR COURSE

Foundations of English Grammar Training Content

Foundations of English Grammar is designed to build your explicit knowledge of English grammar, thereby enhancing your ability to explain different facets of grammar while teaching English as a foreign language.

Students will learn about English grammar in great detail, including the terminology and rules related to the building blocks of English. The course will enable students to explain the form, meaning, and use of all major grammar structures in English.

What You Will Learn During The Course

This course uses our Foundations of English Grammar book as a launching point for study. All topics in the book, however, aren’t assessed in the course because learning ALL of English Grammar in four weeks is too much for anyone. Instead, we’ve grouped grammar structures into weekly units to make the content engaging and scaffolded.

• Week 1: This first week covers the building blocks of English grammar including nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, articles, adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions.
• Week 2: After learning the basics, this week covers how sentences and questions are formed and the variety of types that can be created.
• Week 3: This third week dives straight into tenses and covers the simple and continuous forms of the present, past and future tenses
• Week 4: The final weekends with the more complex aspects, covering the perfect and perfect continuous forms of the present, past and future.

Optional content in the course, while not assessed, dives into the active and passive voices, modals, and conditionals. This content is included as a means of providing you a solid foundation for understanding these constructions.

Foundations of English Grammar Course Details

Length of Training

4 weeks part-time. This course includes 60 hours of online coursework, which includes readings and tasks. You will receive a separate digital certificate from what you receive for your standard TEFL course.

Course time commitment is about 15 hours a week.

Class Size & Facilities

Classes are capped at 20 students with a maximum trainer-to-trainee ratio of 1:10 to ensure personal attention and maintain the highest standards of instruction.

Expanded Opportunities for Engagement

This course covers the major English grammar structures in a fast-paced format. We’ve designed it so that you can check your understanding throughout before taking the quizzes or completing the weekly assignments. These knowledge checks allow you to self-assess your understanding of the topics for the week and make determinations on where you can move ahead or continue your studies.

Practical assessments for future teaching

Even though this course doesn’t teach you how to teach grammar, the assignments mimic activities you will use as an EFL instructor. Throughout the weeks, you will work through examples of common errors English language learners commit and how best to explain the grammar to guide learners as well as finding and creating content to use in highlighting how grammar forms affect meaning and are used.

Implicit Introductions to Topics

Just as you are taught in the TEFL certification, introducing a grammar point with a presentation of the concepts can be rough for you and your learners. In this course, you are provided with an authentic text at the beginning of each concept to help guide you to identify the structure(s) you will be learning. This implicit approach is a pedagogical best practice and provides you, the student, with a means to center yourself in your learning. After looking at the text and making a self-assessment of your understanding, you will step through the structures highlighted and how the form, meaning, and use affect the example.

Video Explanations of Challenging Structures

See what grammar teaching looks like when it is done expertly. This course includes video explanations of some of the most complex grammar points to explain. These are intended to help you in your learning and provide you with an example of fantastic pedagogy in grammar lessons. Through watching these videos and working through the assignments, you will have a strong understanding of best practices for teaching grammar and can jump right into implementing them in your classroom.

Technology Requirements

This course will be delivered entirely through the course management system Moodle. In Moodle, students will access online lessons, course materials, tasks, and resources. All tasks will be documents submitted online or taken as an online quiz.

To complete this course, you must have a reliable internet connection. It is the responsibility of the student to ensure that they meet this requirement prior to enrollment. Extensions on tasks will not be given to students due to technical difficulties.

Interactive Features

This course features live lectures, webinars & chats, however, there is no required live time, and students can access recorded elements through the course.

Textbook for Your Teaching Business English Course

All of your course reading materials, assignments, and quizzes will be available to you online. However, many students recommend purchasing the course textbook as it will serve as a great resource and reference guide in the future.