Advance your

career in ELT
with the blended or fully online

Trinity DipTESOL
Contents Page Introduction to the Trinity DipTESOL 3
Course Format 5
Assessment 7
Entry Requirements 8
What do our graduates say? 9
How to enrol 10
 Introduction to the Trinity DipTESOL
If you have been working in ELT for more than 2 years, then you are ready to
improve your teaching and boost your career with the Trinity DipTESOL.

Recognised: A prestigious, internationally recognised and advanced qualification in ELT.

Blended or Fully Online: Study 6 months online—then complete your teaching practice face-to-face
or online via Zoom over 4 or 14 weeks.
Practical: Emphasis throughout the Trinity DipTESOL course on developing teaching skills and
applying insights to your classroom.
Phonology: Emphasis on teaching pronunciation unique to the Trinity DipTESOL course and highly
valued by our graduates.
Flexible: Study at times to suit your weekly schedule and take up to 3 years to complete the course if
necessary.
Professional: Learn from world-class full-time and guest tutors, including Lindsay Clandfield, Ceri
Jones, Scott Thornbury and Adrian Underhill.
Supportive: Receive unlimited support via email and Zoom from our Trinity DipTESOL Course
Director.
Transformational: Develop your teaching skills and improve your chances of finding some of the best
positions in ELT via our careers service.

The Trinity Diploma in TESOL can be used as credit for teachers wishing to study an MA in TESOL. It has
four components that cover the theory and practice of teaching English.

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Our goal is to provide a course which is dynamic and practical and meets the
needs of the participants. With a team of highly experienced and qualified
tutors, Oxford TEFL’s DipTESOL course will help you to deepen your
theoretical knowledge of teaching and learning.

You will learn new approaches to teaching and have the opportunity to put
them into practice as the course progresses.

During the course, our aim is to encourage the support and sharing of ideas
between participants. To achieve this, we ensure that you are in regular
contact with each other in our virtual classroom.

You will be able to see and hear your colleagues as well as participate in
forum discussions on weekly modules throughout the course.

This highly practical course will help to open doors into different areas of the
ELT profession. Our graduates have gone on to become:

• Teacher trainers.
• Coursebook writers.
• Directors of Studies.
• Managers at major ELT publishers.
• And have even opened their own schools.

You will also have the opportunity to interact with well-known guest tutors,
including:

• Adrian Underhill
• Scott Thornbury
• Andrea Zakime
• Duncan Foord
• Ceri Jones
• Lindsay Clandfield
 How the training works
The study phase
During the 6-month part-time study phase, we use a virtual classroom to
provide an interactive, supportive environment where all the course content
is stored in one place. The online classroom offers us opportunities to share
experiences and ideas with each other through participation in forum
discussions and webinars. You will work in a variety of groupings during the
online phase, including small groups of 4–5 teachers for online discussion
tasks, 8–10 teachers for live Zoom lessons. There are also pairwork tasks
and focus groups for specific areas of the course.

There are twenty, week-long modules which you are expected to contribute to
regularly, but the interaction is not scheduled, so you can log into the course

Course Format throughout the week to suit your own working day. Each week one of our tutors
will lead the module, interacting with you in forums and webinars to ensure
maximum support and feedback. They will encourage, support and challenge
Our Trinity DipTESOL course is externally validated you to develop to your full potential, while ensuring you are preparing effectively
by Trinity College London. This means that the quality for the four assessed units. Every four or five weeks you have a rest week.
of this course is recognised by the British Council and
employers worldwide.

Option 1: Blended – Study 6 months part-time online + 4 weeks (full-time)

teaching practice in Barcelona, Cádiz or Hong Kong.

Assessment: Unit 1 (in a registered centre), Unit 2 (Online), Unit 3 and 4

(in Barcelona, Cádiz, Kerala or Hong Kong). In the case of restrictions due
to Covid-19, you will have the option to switch to Option 2 (below) to do
units 3 and 4 online.

Option 2: Fully online – Study 6 months part-time online + 4 weeks (full-

time) or 14 weeks (part-time) teaching practice online.

Assessment: Unit 1 (in a registered centre), Units 2, 3 and 4 (Online).

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The study phase is designed to help you implement the things you are learning,
so from week one you will notice your development and see your lessons
improving. You will also be thoroughly prepared for assessment, as each end-of- The Teaching Practice
module assignment is graded using the Trinity assessment criteria. Your tutor
will give you written feedback to help you improve and prepare for the final 4 week face-to-face teaching practice
assessments. In total, you will complete around 350 hours of online study during If you choose our blended option, you will do your teaching practice over 4
this phase (50 hours per month). weeks in Barcelona, Cádiz or Hong Kong. Depending on the location, you can
choose from various dates throughout the year. You will be assessed on your
The four, global areas we cover during the online phase are: Learning, Teaching, teaching and phonology knowledge and practice and you will have plenty of
Phonology and Language. support with daily workshops, weekly lesson planning clinics and individual
feedback from our tutors after each lesson observation. In total, you will be
Learning and teaching Phonology studying for around 5 hours per day.
• Teachers
• The Phonemic Chart 4 / 14 week online teaching practice
• Learners
• Vowels and consonants
• Methodology If you choose our fully online option, you will be assessed on your teaching
• Word and sentence stress
• Professional Development
• Features of connected speech
and phonology knowledge and practice online. In this case, you will do your
• Developing the four skills internal/ external assessed teaching practice and phonology interview
• Intonation
• Teaching Young Learners remotely. This allows even greater flexibility in how and when you complete
• Phonology and English as an
• Technology these units. If you are unable to attend one of our centres but you prefer to
•International Language
• Assessment
do your teaching practice in a physical classroom, you have the option to
Language teach your own face-to-face classes remotely and livestream it via Zoom.
• Describing language
• Word grammar and sentence analysis Course participants are required to have all the necessary technology, including
• Grammar teaching laptop/ computer, webcam, microphone, and a strong internet connection
• Discourse (Minimum: 1.0Mbps/1.0Mbps).
• Lexis

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Assessment

Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Unit 4

A 3-hour written exam. 3 action research projects. A 30-minute phonology interview. Teaching Practice.
Face-to-face Online Online Online or face-to-face

You will complete a written exam You choose the subjects of these You will deliver a short talk on an You do five assessed lessons and
consisting of a grammar section projects to suit your context and activity you have designed and write a teaching journal re-
and two sections with essay professional development goals. delivered, transcribe a short lis- flecting on your lessons. Four of
questions about teaching and You work on these individually tening and have a discussion of the lessons are assessed by an
learning. This can be taken in an and are assigned a tutor who the theory and practice of pho- Oxford TEFL tutor and the final
Oxford TEFL centre or at any works with you to develop and nology with a Trinity examiner. lesson is assessed by a Trinity
centre which is authorized to run complete these projects. These This unit is taken alongside the examiner. This can be completed
the Trinity DipTESOL, CertTESOL, projects are submitted online. final externally assessed lesson. full time (over 4 weeks) or part-
or TYLEC courses. If you have This interview is conducted time (over 14 weeks).
chosen to take this course fully online via Zoom.
online, this will be the only
assessment for which you will
need to attend a centre.

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Entry Requirements
Essential
At least two years full-time teaching experience (960 hours in total), teaching
English as a Foreign or Second Language. The experience can be with any age
group or teaching context.

Desirable Reading List

A Certificate in TESOL/CELTA and a degree qualification. If you do not have a This reading list will be used during the course. You are expected to have your
degree you will need to demonstrate in the application process that you are own copy of each of these books and readings will be assigned from them.
able to cope with a course of study at post degree level. Please note you will need the most recent edition in each case.

Course fees Author(s) Title Publisher

• Course fees in one payment: €2700
€400 deposit to secure place (deducted from the remaining fees) + €2300 due Harmer, J The Practice of English Language Teaching Longman
before the course starts. (edition with DVD) (Pre-Course Reading)
• Course fees in four payments: €2800
€400 deposit to secure place (deducted from the remaining fees) + 3 X €800 in Kelly, G
How to Teach Pronunciation
Longman
months 2,4 and 6.

Parrott, M Grammar for English Language Teachers CUP

Examination fees
Trinity examination fees are around €500 for all four units. Please check our
website for up-to-date information about examination fees. Lightbown,P and Spada,N How Languages are Learned CUP

Course start dates Thornbury,S Big questions in ELT The Round

Courses start in January, April and October. Visit our website for up-to-date
information.
Foord, D The Developing Teacher Delta Publishing

We will also send you a Pre-Course Task which will help you get prepared for
the course and which will be discussed in the forum during the first week of
the course. We are also able to provide a list of additional books which we can
recommend if you would like to deepen your knowledge in a particular area.
What do our graduates say?

“Completing the Diploma

“I highly recommend this has been one of the best
course to any teacher who decisions I have made “I was particularly
enjoys challenges and would in terms of professional impressed by the fact
like to enhance teaching growth and self- that I got to learn from
practice and even get actualization. I secured a some of the most eminent
involved in other areas such role as Director of Studies professionals in ELT today.”
as teacher training.” in Paris after successfully
completing the Diploma.”
Raquel Gómez, Melody Philip,
Spain UK
Alan Wong,
Canada/ Hong Kong

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How to enrol
Join our community of over 800 Trinity DipTESOL graduates!

If you would like to advance your career in ELT and transform your teaching
skills, apply for the Trinity DipTESOL course today.

Step 1: Complete our online Trinity DipTESOL course application form.

Step 2: We will get in touch within one working day to arrange an online
interview with the course director.

Step 3: If accepted, you will receive a full place offer and information via email
about how to secure your place on the course. You can do this by paying either
the deposit or the full fees.

Enrol now

We hope you have found this information pack useful. Feel free to contact us at

[email protected]
or call 0034 93 174 0062

to find out more or to sign up to a course.

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