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Anonymous // 01/01/2019

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“I needed a certificate ASAP for a job. I paid for my hard copy of my certificate via PayPal, on the website, as I was logged in as you were supposed to, and nobody mailed me the certificate. I then emailed them in which they said they didn't know who sent them the payment, yet refused to actually email me and let me know this. Luckily I emailed them. They couldn't even email me with the email address linked to my PayPal to tell me they didn't know who sent the payment, even though I sent it while logged into the LearnTEFL website So that made it delay an entire week since they only mail on Friday. Now it is 1 week later from that, and they tell me they mailed it to the wrong address. He tells me an address he sent to that I had no idea why he had that listed for me, as I never would have given that address, an address I've never heard of. So not they have to resend it again. One time he didn't; respond to me for about 2 days, another time about 3 days. This is outrageous! You would think this company would be able to receive a payment on their website for the Certificate, which is the main point of this whole thing, and be able to mail the certificate to the address given to them to the person who paid for it. I need this Certificate ASAP and I have no idea when I will actually receive it. He should send it express delivery but at this point, who knows what they will do.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“The TEFL course is helpful for new learners who have no prior experience of teaching. The course materials are useful and interesting. However, there are some typos and some of the content needs to be updated.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Even though I went to Teachers College at Columbia University, and I have experience teaching, I like to keep up-to-date on the latest teaching trends, methods and debates. Therefore, I decided to take an online course to become TEFL certified. TEFL stands for Teaching English to Foreign Learners. If you want to teach English to foreign students, this type of certification will help you greatly. I recently went on a trip to China and it became apparent to me that virtually every English center there requires TEFL certification. If you want to go overseas and teach, I would highly recommend this course offered by https://learntefl.com/ They even have a job placement specialist who can help you a bit and answer any questions you might have. If you are a fluent English speaker, a good person, and you care about helping others through the field of education while experiencing other cultures, by all means become TEFL certified and get out there! You can have amazing experiences while helping folks. Now, lots of folks who speak English believe that they can teach English to others without any special training, and if you look through classified ads at folks who offer English tutoring, many of them have not studied education and have not had teaching experience. It is a huge fallacy to assert that just because you can speak English you can teach English. A sound knowledge of English grammar is necessary as well as a knowledge of various teaching methods and materials that are effective. Frankly, a good teacher much also have certain character traits. I think a good teacher has to be patient but a bit assertive while always remaining positive and supportive. So I recently completed a TEFL certification course through learnTEFL.com and I was quite satisfied. The course was actually more challenging than I thought it was going be, but anyone who is dedicated and serious about putting enough time into studying the lessons should be able to pass this course. It is a 150 hour course packed with thought-provoking lessons. There are 12 modules with quizzes after each (except for the 12th), 3 assignments and 1 final exam. If you take this course, I would recommend that you keep a notebook and take notes of new terms or interesting concepts for each module, because the final exam is comprehensive and it really does a good job of testing the important points throughout the course. There is a lot to learn that can be applied to your teaching of English. The course follows the Communicative Approach or the CLT (Communicative Language Teaching) approach. According to this approach grammar is important but it is in the service of communication or fluency. In fact, I liked many of the issues that they brought up while introducing this approach. For example, I have always wondered what the best approach would be if a student were speaking while making multiple grammar mistakes. According to this approach the teacher should allow the student to finish before going over the mistakes. Honestly, I am not sure I totally agree with that, but I did some research and it seems that if you allow a little time to pass before correcting an error, students are more predisposed to learn. So these folks are probably right after all. Also I enjoyed reading about the difference between "prescriptive" and "descriptive" English instruction. "Descriptive" English instruction focuses on how people tend to speak English in the general population. "Prescriptive" English is the type of English that follows established grammar rules. For example, most English speakers use "if" incorrectly. They will say, "I don't know if I should wear a sweater today." This is "descriptive" English. But "if" really shouldn't be used this way. "If" should be used in conditional statements - "If it rains I will wear a hat." The word "whether" should be used when you are indicating a choice: "I don't know whether I should wear a sweater today." These folks do not force you to choose one approach over the other, but I sensed that they lean more toward "descriptive" English. I lean more toward "prescriptive" English since most of the foreign students I teach or tutor are professionals or students, and I feel they want to speak a high level, grammatically accurate type of English. There are numerous fascinating issues addressed throughout the course - another would be motivation. There is a section where future English teachers are offered tips to help them motivate students who seem apathetic or unengaged. I created a formula long ago which goes: desire + confidence + focus = achievement. Unless a student is motivated he/she is simply not going to learn. Essentially, this course touches on numerous issues that are essential for a conscientious English teacher. Based on my experience, and I am not being compensated in any way for saying this, I would recommend that you check learnTEFL.com out. You'll even have your own experienced tutor/mentor to help you. Mine was such a sweet and kind person - I am really grateful for her concern and support and assistance. Good luck!!!! Get TEFL certified and get out there and help people learn this amazing world language!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

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Posted 5 years ago

“It was nice to complete this course at my own pace. I wish it would have incorporated the very teaching principles that are included in the course content. It got quite boring and repetitious to read page after page after page of information. Having someone convert these pages into a video lecture would have made a wonderful pairing for those with different learning styles. The videos which were used near the very end of a lesson seemed dated and came from a variety of sources. Some included different module numbers which made it seem as if learnTEFL had merely pulled videos from another institution. The use of negative "twists" within questions on every quiz made it difficult to decipher what was being asked, even for a native English speaker. This was surprising as it went against the very principles taught in this course. Sadly, I did not realize there were tutor notes on each of my assignments until after the course was over, but I was quite pleased by their content and it was apparent that Pat was really putting time into crafting a personal response. I did have to make two separate inquiries as it took 6 days (4 business days) to have my final assignment completed at the verge of expiration. Thankfully a course extension was granted. Overall, the course felt like a mish-mash of resources pinned together from various authors and organizations, at times riddled with spelling errors. I am thankful to have purchased this at a Groupon price point (which was very much worth it) but I would have been sorely disappointed if I had paid the full retail amount.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“I was very happy with the lesson and work. What I am not happy with was the certificate. I was supposed to have access to an online certificate, but saw only the general and hard copy certificate. When I accessed the general copy, I saw how much the hard copy costed for different states. I emailed my mentor regarding the issue, and she told me that I should've been able to access the free online certificate for 24 hours. I had to pay $91 for the class and also $29 for the certificate that should've been free.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“It was a nice and easy course to do and it gave me alot of time to finish it since i could not do it full time. Im happy i have my pdf copy of the certification, but i dont like how its not early mentioned that i have to order a hard copy and that will cost an extra $75 to courier so that should have been mentioned prior. Overall i didnt have any problems using the website it was very user friendly.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“I LOVED this course! I was initially leery after reading a scathing blog post about “Groupon” TEFL courses but I am so glad I trusted my instincts to take the course anyway. I have a graduate degree in education but had been out of the classroom for awhile when I took this course in order to teach English online. It was like a condensed course refresher of 6 years of college! If you don’t have any educational background or training, it might be a little difficult but the course is filled with videos and self-check tools before you get to the graded quizzes.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“I loved this course, very complete and informative.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“The TEFL course is something I would recommend to anyone looking to broaden their horizons. Whilst undertaking this course I have certainly learned a lot more about the English language.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“I found the course to be rather good, but very boring as it is just plain reading. Something could be done to make it slightly more interactive. Overall though, the course provides a lot of extra content and resources, which is good.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Great value for money. Gives access to a huge amount of material and I had great support from my mentor Pat. Has really prepared me for the (online) classroom and I’m now teaching online regularly.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“The course was both informative and challenging. I printed out all the courses that I can keep on hand as a reference. I am happy that I took the course.”

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Posted 5 years ago

Learn TEFL is rated 4.6 based on 182 reviews