Accredited CLT course, Communicative Language Teaching
Accredited CLT course. Trinity CertPT, a Trinity College London accredited Ofqual diploma level 6 teacher training course.
Course facts
Certification: | Trinity CertPT in CLT |
Accreditation level: | Ofqual level 6 |
Course dates and prices: | Check the schedule |
Course location: | Live online classroom |
Duration: | Six weeks, part-time |
Total hours: | 100 |
Live class times: | Arranged to your schedule |
External moderation: | Submission to Trinity College London |
University credits: | Up to 10 |
Total cost: | €899 |
Price per hour | €8.90 |
Links to the facts we promised
- Please get in touch with Trinity College London to verify our Validated Course Provider status and ask them questions about us. Our Validated Course Provider number is 65747.
- Our course is the Trinity CertPT.
- Here is the UK Government Ofqual Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) page showing that Trinity College London (TCL) is recognised by Ofqual and the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations & Assessment
- Here is the UK Government Ofqual Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) page showing that the Trinity CertPT is an Ofqual level 6 qualification.
Accredited CLT course for practising teachers
CLT is an acronym for Communicative Language Teaching. CLT is sometimes referred to as the Communicative Approach.
CLT is a teaching method that prioritises the importance of genuine communication to facilitate learning. CLT learners practice the target language (in our case English) by communicating with each other and the teacher. Authentic material is used to which the learners can relate e.g. news items, personal experiences, things they’ve done, etc. CLT’s goal is the ability to communicate rather than grammatical competence. CLT turns your job into a facilitator, who guides and controls rather than lectures. CLT is also non-methodical because it does not rely on textbooks. CLT is a complex area and our CertPT CLT shows you how to use it in your classroom.
Learn to teach using CLT and increase your value as an English teacher
Okay, you are an international teaching professional with over six months of classroom experience and an interest in teaching CLT.
- Do you want to increase your value by learning CLT teaching skills?
- Do you want to specialise and earn more as a specialist CLT teacher?
- Are you looking for accredited continuing professional development (CPD) certification to prove your CLT teaching skills?
If this is you, the internationally accredited Ofqual level 6 Trinity College London Certificate for Practising Teachers (CertPT) in CLT (CertPT CLT) is for you.
The Trinity CertPT in CLT
- EBC’s one hundred hours, six-week, part-time Trinity CertPT accredited teaching CLT course gives you a deeper understanding of theoretical and practical aspects of teaching CLT.
- The CertPT CLT enables you to create and run a more communicative and effective CLT classroom.
- The Ofqual registration links are for Trinity College London (TCL) and CertPT.
- These links provide factual evidence that the Trinity CertPT is top-quality and officially recognised.
This course is a UK government-regulated qualification.
We back up our CertPT course promises with facts and evidence that you can check on government websites.
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Trinity CertPT in CLT course
- This course shows you how to build an effective CLT teaching environment for any age capable of learning and understanding English.
- We show you how to facilitate communicating and interacting in English in a controlled manner.
- Find out how to identify and source authentic material to engage your students in active communication.
- EBC has designed the CertPT CLT for teachers with little or no knowledge of CLT up to those who have a deeper understanding.
- Discover how to create learning opportunities that focus on the language and the learning management process.
- See why your students’ experiences are crucial to learning, motivation and material engagement.
- Learn how to link your classroom language with the world in which your students live.
CLT is a teaching approach that highlights the importance of authentic communication for learning. Therefore, language use across the four core skills of Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing takes priority because conveying and understanding messages lets you function in the real world. Also, since the learners will one day have to cope with the challenges that the real world will pose to them, the target functions, notions and language items are usually contextualized in situations and tasks which replicate real-life.
Successful communication is the primary goal of communicative language teaching. The focus is on learners communicating an authentic message in their particular context and making themselves understood.
Accuracy is desired, but it is not the primary goal. For example, a learner who communicates more information with a few mistakes is more likely to communicate successfully than one who conveys very little with no errors.
The CLT approach should motivate students to communicate. Therefore, it is essential to use relevant and engaging content for learners.
The purpose of this CertPT course in Communicative Language Teaching is to help you find, tailor, adapt and develop material that will engage your students, encourage communication and therefore improve their learning experience and your teaching experience.
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Schedule: course dates, prices, outline, etc.
Course only
- Make a one-time payment of €899
- or pay a €325 deposit then a €574 final payment
- Six-week Trinity CertPT CLT course
- Trinity CertPT certificate
- Worldwide, lifetime and proactive job placement
Road2Spain – course + one-year Spanish and Student Visa programme
- €2,085 = 899 € CertPT course + 1,186 € Barcelona Spanish Programme
- €2,184 = 899 € CertPT course + 1,285 € Madrid Spanish Programme
- €2,461 = 899 € CertPT course + 1,562 € Malaga Spanish Programme
- €2,463 = 899 € CertPT course + 1,564 € San Sebastian Spanish Programme
- Six-week Trinity CertPT CLT course
- Trinity CertPT certificate
- Worldwide, lifetime and proactive job placement
- One-year Spanish student visa
- One-year Spanish course at a Cervantes Institute school
IMPORTANT
- You choose your start date and pay for your one-year Spanish and Student Visa programme AFTER finishing the course.
- The Cervantes Institute Spanish school sends you the student visa documents after receiving your payment.
1 – Fill out and send your application
- Please go to our application web page.
- Follow the four easy steps in the application process where you will enter your email address, choose the course you would like to take, select your preferred course date, and tell us a little about yourself: your education, your interests, your expectations and your reasons for wanting to take the course.
- If your application is accepted, we will arrange an admission interview with you.
2 – Attend your admission interview
IMPORTANT: This course is a UK government-regulated qualification, so it must meet official quality controls, one of which is the admission interview. Trinity College London will not allow you to take the course if you do not take and pass the admission interview.
- We will arrange an admission interview time with you.
- You can choose ZOOM, WhatsApp, Skype or Viber for the admission interview.
- The interview has a set of standard questions and information we must tell you before you attend.
- If you pass the interview, you receive an acceptance letter and instructions for enrolling on the course.
3 – Enrol
- When you get your acceptance letter, we strongly recommend sending your deposit to guarantee your course place. We allocate course places on a first-come, first-served basis.
- When you have guaranteed your place, your dedicated student adviser will give you all the information you need for the course and travel (if you are travelling).
NOTE: Your admission’s interview file is registered with Trinity College London and audited by the Trinity College London appointed external course moderator at the end of your course.
This course prepares you to create, use and teach CLT material to match your students’ learning needs.
The course also includes lifetime, worldwide job placement that helps you get an English teaching job whenever you want.
When you graduate, you will:
- get a Trinity CertPT, one of the world’s two leading accredited teaching certificates;
- gain CLT skills for use in a single language or multi-lingual classroom;
- be able to find, create and adapt CLT teaching material;
- know how to determine what material enganges your students;
- know how to interact with CLT learners;
- know how to manage a CLT classroom;
- reflect on your material and performance enabling your continued growth as a CLT teacher.
The course has four foundation tasks. You must pass all of them to pass the course.
Task 1 – Resource evaluation
Produce an evaluation of a printed or online CLT teaching/training resource:
- evaluate the resource through the lens of your professional practice;
- assess the resource in terms of relevance for a specific learning group;
- make explicit links to your teaching/training context;
- demonstrate insight into broader educational practices and the impact it has had on your professional practice;
- include a fully referenced copy of the resource in the appendices.
Task 2 – Rationale for an adapted resource
Produce a rationale for a printed or online CLT teaching/training resource you have adapted to be suitable for at least 15 minutes’ teaching/training for a specified learner/learner group:
- explain the reasons for the adaptations, making direct reference to the specified learner/learner group;
- demonstrate insight into broader educational practices and the impact it has had on your professional practice;
- include a fully referenced copy of the adapted resource and the original resource in the appendices.
Task 3 – Rationale for an original resource
Produce a rationale for an original CLT resource you have created that is suitable for at least 15 minutes’ teaching/training for a specified learner/learner group:
- make direct reference to the specified learner/learner group;
- explain why the resource has been created in the way it has;
- demonstrate insight into broader educational practices and the impact it has had on your professional practice;
- include a copy of the resource in the appendices.
Task 4 – Reflection on resource use
Write a reflection on the use of either the adapted CLT resource (from task 2) or the CLT original resource (from task 3):
- identify strengths and weaknesses of the resource, with direct reference to the specified learner/learner group;
- suggest solutions for the identified deficiencies and, where appropriate, for improving the strengths;
- include evidence of learner, peer and manager feedback on the use of the resource and an example of the feedback.
Visit the CertPT syllabus, CPD for practising teachers page.