SUNBRIDGE INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH
GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN TESOL (DipTESOL)
(Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
Diploma Courses
SUNBRIDGE PHILOSOPHY
Textbooks are very expensive and they go out of date very quickly. Schools are often left with unusable books and handouts. Professors need to keep revising their presentation materials, and students who buy used texts from senior students may be wasting their money if the text is no longer current.
Rather than burden students with an enormous cost in textbooks (often over $100 a book), Sunbridge has opted, whenever practical, to take a research-based approach to its diploma studies.
With the advent of the Internet, an immense volume of pertinent material is now available to students on almost every imaginable subject. Therefore, while we will generally offer suggestions for reference texts, students do not usually have to purchase or use these in many of our courses. There may be some courses where studies have to follow a particular text...but not many. Instead, we will often assign a premise and ask the student to develop a paper based on his or her research.
This approach enables students and school mentors alike to take advantage of the most current thinking and documentation available. It also promotes curiosity and research development in our students. This diploma is a graduate-level program. Students should by this time be able to not only read about a premise but perform research and write scholarly papers on the respective topics they are studying.
Dr. Robert W. Taylor
Dean of Studies
Recommended Courses
As noted on our Diploma main page, besides TESOL and your teaching practicum, you require eight additional courses and a capstone paper to complete your diploma.
Below are the courses from which you may select. Under each course, we offer one or more reference texts upon which you may base your studies, although you may choose to do your research on the Internet or in a local library. There are several courses in which a certain text is required. In most cases, these are Sunbridge online texts and there is no additional cost for these. You may also suggest up to two courses in lieu of those below provided they fit in with the general framework of the diploma program.
Click on each course for a more detailed description, course outline, reference texts and assignments.
Dip 101 - Learning Theories (3)
Dip 102 - ESL Methods and Strategies (3)
Dip 103 - CALL, WALL and ESL (3)
Dip 104 - ESL Educational Assessment (3)
Dip 105 - Teaching Academic Writing (3)
Dip 106 - Leadership and Education (3)
Dip 107 - ESL Curriculum Design (3)
Dip 108 - Introduction to Linguistics (3)
Dip 109 - Designing Interactive ESL Lessons (3)
Dip 110 - Teaching Business English (TEB) (3)
Dip 111 - Teaching New Immigrants (3)
Dip 112 - Teaching TOEFL and TOEIC (3)
Dip 113 - Teaching English to Young Learners (TEYL) (3)
Dip 114 - Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults (TEFLA) (3)
Dip 110, 113 and 114 are certificate courses in their own right. Therefore students selecting to study any or all of these courses have the opportunity to earn up to three additional certificates within the framework of their diploma studies.