ELT (TEFL) courses in Barcelona

•TEFL courses

CELTA
Cambridge Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults
Full- and part-time options for probably the most widely recognised initial qualification within the ELT profession.

CELTYL
Cambridge Certificate in English Language Teaching to Young Learners
A qualification designed for candidates with little or no experience of teaching who wish to learn how to teach young learners in the 8-13 age group.

CELT YL Extension Course
Cambridge CELT extension course for teaching Young Learners
An add-on course for teachers who are already CELTA qualified but who have little or no experience of teaching children.

Teaching Very Young Learners
The six sessions on this course look at teaching English to the very young (5-7 year olds).

DELTA
Cambridge Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults
A higher level training course designed for candidates who have substantial experience of teaching English in a variety of contexts.

•ELT Management

Director of Studies Course
A 30-hour intensive course for experienced teachers interested in taking up a position as Director of Studies in a language school.

ELT Management
International Diploma in Language Teaching Management
A 325-hour flexible mode course leading to the IDLTM qualification in ELT management.

•Other ELT courses

ESP Business Course
A 36-hour intensive teacher development course to increase the competence and confidence of those teaching Business English.

Cursos de preparación para las oposiciones
Our "Oposiciones" courses prepare you for the exams for either secondary schools or the Escuela Oficial de Idiomas.

Generalitat Courses
Generalitat-approved, July intensive courses for teachers of English in local secondary schools.

New Technology Courses
Teacher training workshops and short courses on using new technologies, covering a broad range of subjects and abilities.

Trainer Training
A 30-hour intensive course for experienced teachers interested in becoming teacher trainers.

•ELT Teacher Development Workshops

Adults
Our 8-session teacher development workshop series offers highly practical workshops for teachers of adult learners of English.

Young Learners
We also run a similarly practical 8 workshop series for teachers of Young Learners of English.

•Online courses

Common European Framework
Like our other Moodle-based online ELT teaching training courses, the CEF course requires a minimum of 20 hours to complete its seven modules. The focus on the CEF course is on the essential underlying precepts and helping learners help themselves.

Foundation TEFL course
Our foundation course is intended for those with no, or very little, previous teaching experience who wish to discover what is involved in language teaching before committing to a fuller qualification.

Language Analysis for English teachers
The content of our online language analysis course combines analysis of major linguistic areas selected by our tutors and discussion of linguistic areas selected by participants.

Teaching English pronunciation
A course is for practising teachers who wish to update their knowledge of English phonology (pronunciation, stress, intonation etc) and who want practical ideas on how to integrate phonology into the English language classroom.

Teaching Vocabulary
Our online vocabulary course looks at a wide range of approaches to vocabulary teaching and learning and asks you to experiment with these in your classes and to report back to our online forum.

Teaching Writing Skills for Exam Classes
A course specifically designed to be of interest to those preparing students for exams like FCE and CAE, but also to teachers of English for academic purposes (EAP).

Teaching Young Learners
An introductory course for teachers new to teaching younger learners (ages of seven to fifteen).

TKT course
Our 15-week TKT course is designed for teachers preparing to take the Cambridge ESOL TKT (Teaching Knowledge Test).

•IH Barcelona ELT Conference

Our annual ELT conference includes plenary and concurrent sessions in three main strands:

• Teaching General English to Adults
• Teaching Younger Learners
• Teaching Business English

•Made-to-measure teaching training courses

Our trainers go out to provide tailor-made teacher training courses in other centres on such areas as Young Learners, Business English and New Technology as well as on more specific subjects such as collocation or language analysis, or using video in the classroom.