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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 – except that if, you complete our full TEFL Certificate Course first, Part II of the Diploma Course (Teaching English to Young Learners) is included free of charge in that course, leaving only Part I of the Diploma Course (Advanced Skills teaching) to be mastered and reducing your Diploma Course fees by half! Certainly, 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 and enrollment information!)

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 you can even study primarily at home. (Click here to see course content.)

You must, of course, have taken an intensive and interactive TEFL certificate course first. However, after that, you can enroll and pay for just this part of the Diploma Course. To be accepted, just enroll online for the Diploma Course and elect to pay just 1/2 of the fee. Again, just click here for full instructions about how to do this.

Feel free to contact our Enrollments Director, Mr Leigh Richards (leigh@langserv.com), for any further information, and to check the locations and scheduling of the Advanced Skills Course. Then contact him once again after you have enrolled, to arrange for any visa or housing assistance you may need.

See you soon!