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While to maximize teacher earnings and become proficient in teaching all types, levels and age groups of learners it would be best to take our complete sixteen-week Diploma Course – if the opportunities exist to earn high wages by teaching advanced skills classes, and/or one simply does not wish to teach children, then the Advanced Skills Course contained in our TEFL Diploma program will be perfect for you. (Ciick here to see our discounted fees!)

People in Asia need advanced skills training like no one else in the world. In order to get the best jobs, EFL and ESL users of English must have very high levels of English ability, ititially just to enable them to study in universities abroad. It is vital that such students take and pass either the TOEFL (Testing of English as a Foreign Language) Exam or the IELTS (International English Language Testing Services) Exam at a high level in order to achieve this objective. Unfortunately, very few English native-speaking teachers in Asia have been trained or are otherwise qualified to teach these students, with two very unfortunate results: The quality of teaching is thus very poor, resulting in low test scores; and there simply are not enough teachers around to meet the demand.

Another type of course also is required to enable Asian students to obtain work in the airline industry in such jobs as air hostesses, check-in clerks, accountants, baggage handlers, controllers or pilots. This latter group prepare for their employment by taking the TOEIC. (Testing of English in International Communications) Exam, though this test is also administered to persons through the business community as a gauge of how well staff are able to understand and relate to foreigners using English.

Still other teaching needs are courses to help students with their study skills, reading skills, writing skills and listening skills. Business English, per se, must also be taught, and taught well, to enable staff to do their jobs effectively and advance their positions. And students with special needs require teachers with ESP (English for Special Purposes) skills such as, for example, how to locate companies, set up appointments with managers, and powerfully present proposals to foreign company executives, while they are traveling outside their own country.

All of the above classes, and many more, are ones you will learn to teach if you do our Advanced Skills Course, which consists of only 52 hours, spread easily over eight Sundays. (Click here to see course content.)

You must, of course, have taken a TEFL certificate course first. However, after that, you can take just this part of the Diploma Course initially, if you wish, and follow up with the other half later on, if you choose to do so. To be accepted, just enroll online for the Diploma Course and elect to pay just 1/2 of the fee. Since you will not be taking the other half of the Diploma Course at this stage, that is all you will owe.

Please contact Mr Leigh Richards (leigh@langserv.com) to check the locations and scheduling of the Advanced Skills Course, and contact him once again after you have enrolled..