Online TEFL Training Question

A reader asked an excellent question about an online course:

I am wondering if there is any information out there on the hours associated with tefl courses? For example, they state it is at least 100 hours, 120 hours, even 140 hours. Some even have 40 hours. What’s the difference between them?

There is not really an industry-level formal differentiation between different courses offered by different companies and the associated hours of their courses. Usually the number of assigned hours is a reasonable estimate of how long it would take someone to complete the course.

Some programs will try to make their number of hours seem “official” or assert that they are sanctioned in some way, but generally that is not true. The hours associated with the course are just a best estimate of the amount of a time an average student might need to complete the course. Nothing mysterious about it all.

Historically, even the CELTA, Trinity RSA, and other certification courses were designed and written to be taken by high school graduates. That tends to mean that college graduates, with a lot more experience assimilating materials and taking examinations, tend to take less time. Usually. But not always.

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