TEFL Reviews

This unit really puts everything from unit three until now into perspective...

The productive skills speaking and writing need to go hand and hand when teaching a class...

Lesson planning is important for various reasons...

This unit defined parts of speech and explained the use or uses for each...

This unit was very fascinating to read about and learn from...

This unit allowed me to get a closer look into teaching different age groups, what their objectives usually are, and how to properly handle them...

In this unit, pronunciation and phonology are introduced and explained in detail...

Once again, grammar hasn't ever really been my strongest suit in the English language...

This unit provided a wonderful contrast between an unsuccessful lesson and a successful one...

The parts of speech - nouns, adjectives, articles, verbs, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions - contain many guidelines...

So far I have found this to be the most challenging to understand...

This unit was about teaching productive (speaking and writing) skills...

Unit 10 showed examples of a well planned lesson and a poorly planned lesson...

Unit 9 reinforces my understanding of the components of a good lesson and some of the activities that can be incorporated into lessons...

This unit focuses on the productive skills writing and speaking...

We learned the basic formats of how to teach a class...

This chapter gave an overview on some of the things involved specifically with teaching a new language...

In this lesson I got to look at two examples of teachers in EFL classrooms...

The synops for this chapter does a great job of explaining the point of this chapter...

This final unit went over a lot of the problems that can arise within teaching and some potential solutions for them...

This unit helped me recognize that there are many different formats that can and should be used during class to enhance the learning experience of the student...

This unit provided me with an interesting overview of the currently accepted methodologies and systems of learning and teaching, including pros and cons for each method, as well as a wealth of ideas for potential lesson material at the end of the chapter...

So as the final unit is reached, there is now time to reflect on my strengths/weknesses and contemplate where to revise so as to be able to teach and troubleshoot with confidence...

At the beginning or at various phases of studies students are given tests to check their knowledge...

This unit covered the topic of teaching receptive skills...

Using past tense is much like using the present tense in regards to the rules they must follow...

This lesson goes into further detail about different aspects of a language that students must learn, and how they can be best taught through the different components of an ESA teaching style...

Unit 4 teaches the differences between authentic and non-authentic materials, key points to consider when creating non-authentic materials, and the reasoning behind why it's important to have a lesson plan...

I did not know about a lot of these theories,methods and techniques ...

This united covered conditionals...

This unit covered the different approaches to teaching ESL and EFL as well as how to structure and format an ESA lesson...

Unit 17 looks at the various equipment and teaching aids available and the how they can be used by teachers of the English language, to make lessons more interesting, effective and less dependent on course books...

This unit focuses on the present tenses namely present simple, present continuous, present perfect and present perfect continuous...

I have learned in this unit that it is very important to be prepared ahead of lesson, and that the teacher's voice, gestures and eye contact all play an important role in how the teaches can manage their classrooms...

Unit 14 on course books and lesson materials emphasized the importance in the process of choosing what materials get covered in a lesson...

This unit has taught me a lot about pronunciation and phonology, and how to teach others...

Unit ten provided two very different video lessons: one demonstrating an effective ESA lesson, and one demonstrating a very ineffective ESA lesson...

Unit 5 helps future teachers to understand their own role in the classroom environment...

Phonology is the ever-changing studies, science, analysis, and classification of the physical properties of sounds...

Classroom management is the skill of organizing and managing the class, therefore, the teacher must be flexible and change his role according to the activities...