I”m not a native English speaker. How good does my English need to be?
For the Trinity College London Certificate in TESOL, non-native English speakers should have a level of 7.0 in the IELTS* test (academic modules), or the Cambridge Advanced Certificate. Contact the British Council in your country for details of your nearest IELTS testing centre. If you have an English-language qualification which you know to be equivalent to either of the above qualifications, just contact us for advice. In some ways, as a non-native speaker of English, you have an advantage: you are probably more familiar with grammatical rules and terminology than most native speakers. Approximately a third of those who train with International Training Network are non-native speakers of English. For other International Training Network face to face and online courses, non-native speakers should have a linguistic competence of at least the level of the Cambridge First Certificate or IELTS* level 5.0. *IELTS – The International English Language Testing System I have no formal qualific
