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[itiswhatitis]

Currently I'm taking a 100 hour online TESOL.

I am about halfway through but I am certain that I have put in more than 50 hours of studying.

About how many hours did you take to complete?

About how long (1 month, 2 months, 3 months) did it take for you to complete?

I want to be done ASAP and I hope to be done by the end of July.

Thanks!

[Cacille]

I just finished my 120 hour tefl. I'm actually a bit disappointed - it was relatively easy for me. Then again, I have already been working in ESL for over a year, so perhaps my experience made it easy. Some parts were harder than others and took me weeks to get through, some were so easy I was through it in just a week. When I say "just a week" i mean a total of four hours of work, and three days of waiting and an update of another hour. I think that 120 hour TEFL means more "waiting for the tutor/approver to update your assignment" than actual work.
Am I glad I got it done? Yes. But I really do wish there was a little more to it.

[Dalton]

Depends on how much you have or are willing to spend working on it. Probably 4-6 months if you have a day job and enjoy life.

[War Eagle]

The online? Really?

I did mine immediately after I arrived to Korea. I signed up for the class on, let's call it, day 1. They then sent me all of the training materials and told me that when I was ready, I should log on to the testing system and I would have 24 hours after that to complete the exam.

I waited a couple of weeks so as not to look too suspicious. (I suppose someone could have studied all that material in 2 weeks if they really bunkered down.) Then, without studying, or even opening the study material for that matter, logged on and took the test.

Granted, I spent an ENTIRE Saturday taking the test (like 8am - 10pm), as all of the answers were in the study materials they provided and I had to find the answers and understand the concepts enough to explain them. However, it was really not too bad at all.

When I received my certificate by mail, it was accompanied by a letter stating my exam score, which was marked as A+.

I actually learned a LOT in those 14 hours and enjoyed it. So much in fact, that I actually ended up studying all of the material afterwards.

[Dalton]

Not all on line courses are the same.

I wish I had chosen yours.

Mine had 20 units. Each one had to be completed and emailed back before the next was sent. M-F only. Here's a sample question from unit 6 for the curious-

Task 7 – How would you explain the difference in structure and usage between these tenses to a low-level student? Illustrate your explanations with example sentences of your own:

a) Past simple and past continuous

i) Explanation of differences in structure:


ii) Differences in usage:


iii) Example sentences:







b) Past simple and present perfect

i) Explanation of differences in structure:


ii) Differences in usage:


iii) Example sentences:







c) Present perfect and past perfect

i) Explanation of differences in structure:


ii) Differences in usage:


iii) Example sentences:

[War Eagle]

I remember a couple questions similar to that on the test.

However, I didn't know they weren't all test and finish. Turning stuff in weekly sounds like a pita.

[Dalton]

[sundizz]

took me 2 weeks to finish? Depends how much you care and how much you want to learn. I just wanted the extra 100k my school would give me for having one.

[Dalton]