• TEFL certification
• Fully online & automated tuition
• Digital PDF TEFL certificate (self-printable with QR-code verification)
• Free games material packets
• Free lessons pre-purchase
• Text & video content
• Scenario-based lesson flows
• Quizzes instead of essays
• TEFL jobs board with links to jobs and recruiters
• Technical & tutor support
• Lifetime text access
• 14-day full refund for unused courses*

Our lower overheads allow us to provide cheap TEFL certification without sacrificing quality. Experience our professional online TEFL course by trying our free units – see firsthand how our affordable TEFL certificate online course maintains exceptional standards despite the lower price – we know that not everyone can afford hefty prices for unknown online TEFL courses.

We achieve our cheap TEFL course rates through minimal overhead costs and an efficient automated system. All of our tutors who support your online TEFL certification journey work as full-time professional teachers, eliminating expensive dedicated salaries – these savings are passed directly to you! While pursuing your accredited TEFL certification aspirations, you might occasionally wait up to 48 hours for responses to messages (shock-horror!), though we typically reply within one working day. Overall, our streamlined approach enables us to offer truly cheap TEFL courses in South Africa, the UK, and worldwide while maintaining the professional standards required for successful online TEFL jobs or opportunities to teach English abroad. When you consider our QR-embedding and self-print certificates, plus our full AI video coverage of all text, we’re cheaper than TEFLmasters, worldtesolacademy, Universal TEFL, and all of the other big players in our TEFL league; however, our content and professionalism is also on par with course providers that charge multiple times our price.

While searching for ‘cheap TEFL courses UK online’ or ‘cheap TEFL courses in South Africa’, for example, you’ll likely encounter “free TEFL certification” offers somewhere on the search pages. Let’s be honest, as tempting as this might first sound, quality education is never truly free. 120 hours is the industry standard for a reason – if you do undertake a free course, please make sure it’s 120 hours, but please also don’t expect to learn much. Google ‘cheap TEFL courses Reddit’ and you’ll find a number of opinions: some real and some obviously fake. If you decide to go with a free TEFL course, please make sure it suits your needs – both in terms of learning (consider if having no videos or teaching demos is your style) and in certification. Does the free TEFL course provide a free TEFL certificate? Is that TEFL certificate accepted for an apostille? Does it actually teach you anything? StudyTEFL courses are made by expert teachers, are dual-accredited, and are maintained by tutors who actually care about your TEFL training.

Employers are sceptical of 120-hour free TEFL courses because they usually provide minimal lesson- and teaching- quality: companies offering these usually have no genuine care for the quality of their course and simply want to rush you through the process in order to make money placing you in a school that pays them a fee or selling you expensive certificates.

Our advice is to be wary of such companies. When exploring options for the cheapest TEFL certification online, remember that someone invested time, expertise, and resources creating those materials. Be thorough, check out reviews and the quality of the content before paying or investing your valuable time. Even if your goal is simply to fly through the content to get a digital TEFL certificate in your inbox for a pay rise, make sure that ‘TEFL certification free’ doesn’t mean ‘TEFL certificate that employers don’t respect’ or ‘TEFL certificate that looks illegitimate’.

When evaluating online TEFL certification programs claiming to be entirely free, consider what’s missing:

• Is the “free” content in these TESOL certification online programs outdated, irrelevant, or error-filled?
• Will your cheap accredited TEFL certificate look obviously auto-generated, damaging your credibility with employers?
• Is the company offering “free” certification actually a recruitment agency making their profit by placing you in lower-paid teaching positions?

We allow you to try 3 free lessons – we do this because we are confident about the quality of our courses. The free TEFL lessons that we offer should give you peace of mind about our teaching style and the quality of our lessons.

Our affordable yet professional online TEFL course strikes the right balance – quality education at accessible prices. While we offer among the most competitively priced cheap TEFL course online, we never compromise on educational standards. Remember, investing in proper online TEFL certification is investing in your teaching future – when something claims to be completely free, there’s almost always a hidden cost.

As an accredited TEFL course provider, studyTEFL certification is accepted worldwide. Employers can check your completed TEFL status online with your unique certification code. If you need your accredited TEFL certificate for visa purposes, you’ll need your TEFL certificate notarised and apostilled (we have links to get you a special discount with Apostille.org.uk). We recommend also printing the cert on hard paper/card (25-300gsm paper) to take abroad with you. We can print and mail a professional, embossed certificate, but this is absolutely unnecessary (it wastes you US$70+ when you can just apostille the digital version and self-print).

Yes, if your request falls within 14 days from the course purchase and you haven’t finished many units, of course! As a reputable, accredited TEFL course provider, studyTEFL has a 14-day refund policy. Our accreditors require this, but we would offer it anyway, because we don’t want to take someone’s money if they are not satisfied with our course or customer service. We operate within both EU and UK law for digital services, both of which are fair to consumers and businesses. As such, if students have used a digital product, gained from it, and/or downloaded material, the owner is entitled to fair compensation.

Therefore, within ours terms, we set out a scaled deduction policy which we are entitled to enact should students start the course and use our digital material. We offer free lessons and operate with transparency, so please engage with our content in the free lessons and feel free to contact us to ask questions before purchasing to see if our teaching style is a good fit for your learning needs. With that said, we do recognize that circumstances change, and we do our utmost to ensure that any refund requests are met with fairness, kindness, and understanding. Our refund policy is there to protect our customers, but also serves to protect our hard work. We are teachers: we know the value of money and the value of education, so we always endeavor to do the right thing and leave our students feeling positive. Please contact us with any concerns or queries.