TEFL Reviews

Generally there are a number of ways to evaluate a student's language level, tutorials, evaluation by the students and tests...

The purpose of unit seventeen is to discuss the various types of equipment and teaching aids available for use in the classroom...

Unit 20- Troubleshooting...

The receptive skills are listening and reading, because learners do not need to produce language to do these, they receive and understand it...

Unit 19 discusses teaching different groups of English learners...

As language teaching usually falls into four important parts, that are listening, reading, speaking and writing, this unit focuses on the teaching of the receptive skills (the former two parts)...

This unit was on the different types of learners that a teacher can encounter...

This unit as a native English speaker is very difficult as I was never really aware of the phonemic symbols so I have really had to learn them from the beginning like the students as this was not taught to me in school...

From this unit, I learned about the different tools a teacher can use to keep class interesting and to make sure that students fully understand the material presented...

This unit was helpful in the way that it broke down the various components of receptive skills...

This Unit was interesting...

Unit 15 on Evaluation and Testing covered the different types of ways to test a student?s language skills...

The lesson explains the verbal and nonverbal behaviors that help a teacher to communicate with the students and maintain control and balance in the classroom...

The content of unit fourteen discusses the stress, rhythm, and the intonation of the English language...

The important functions of lesson planning are that it is an aid to planning, it is a working document and a record...

This section is about assessment of students performance in language...

I've learned about how to use my gestures to convey meaning and to show what I want the students to do, pace up the class or slow it down, how to use my voice the right way, what are the different seating arrangements and their advantages and disadvantages (they all have of both, but it depends on the activity the students are doing, for example, if want them to make up a simple dialogue, I would tell them to work in pairs...

The content of this unit examines the different types of future tenses in English Language...

This unit presented videos of the same teacher-class in two different versions of the same class material...

Here we have learned about different methodologies that have been used in the teaching of English as a second language as well as various teaching techniques associated with them...

In unit 9 we looked at lesson planning...

This unit was on the future tenses: Future simple, future continuous, future perfect, future perfect continuous, going to future, and present simple and continuous with future meaning...

The breakdown of the effects that different types of course materials and books and how they can encourage students and the teacher seemed to be the forefront of this unit...

Unit 15 talked about Evaluation and Testing and the first topic discussed was the different ways to assess a student?s language level (by tutorials, by students? evaluation and by tests)...

This unit looks at troubleshooting and what problems you may come across in a TESOL lesson, such as first lessons, which we find shouldn't be focused on language goals and should be about getting to know the class and their needs...

This unit covered both conditional sentences and the difference between direct and reported speech...

As far as class planning goes, this unit has been the most useful thus far in terms of 'hard' materials...

Unit 17 covered equipment and teaching aids for language teachers...

I feel that this unit, and Unit 1, are the best examples for what we can expect to handle in the classroom...

In this Unit, I have learned the teaching and learning process in Business english...

The final unit of the course went over a few different obstacles that may be encountered when teaching English...

This unit covered modal verbs, phrasal verbs and passive voice...

Unit 18 examines modals, phrasal verbs, passive voice and relative clauses which make up the essential basics of English grammar...

The unit starts by explaining different types of teaching methodologies then goes deeper in explaining about a teaching method known as the ESA method...

Productive skills comprise of writing and speaking skills...

In most of my classes I have benefited from having a text book to refer to when ever I was unsure of a particular lesson or concept...

Unit 13 talks about pronunciation and the issues relating to pronunciation, It explains terms like intonation, stress, syllables, some techniques that can be used in teaching stress such as: gesture, stress marks, the board etc...

Managing the classroom is very important from the start because it leaves a lasting impression between the teacher and the students...

Special education classes provide a unique service to physically or mentally challenged students...

This is a great finishing unit addressing the problems that we may run into with different class dynamics...