TEFL Reviews

For any teacher, I believe class management is as important as content knowledge...

In teaching either new vocabulary, grammar styles or language functions, there are a few basic things to consider when choosing and teaching for each of the categories...

In Unit 5, the following content was covered: case studies, frameworking (input>process>output), Speech Act Theory, the use of computers in the classroom, and the implementation of games to use during lessons...

Managing a class can be quite challenging, as it depends on many factors...

Unit5, Classroom Management...

Conditionals consider to be one of the most difficult topics for learners...

Unit 14 discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using published textbooks to teach language...

Unit 11 focuses on receptive skills, reading and listening...

In this section, I learned many ways to teach the English language...

Receptive skills are basically any information we receive on a non-stop basis and how we act on it...

This unit mostly focused on different kinds of tests and their purposes...

The topic of this Unit is course development...

A very informative segment that presents a lot of useful ways to identify which tense is used in a given sentence...

First lesson: different classes: new group, existing group should try to achieve the following: Establish rapport between the students and also between teacher and class; Find out about students, Find out about student`s interests, Find out English level of each individual class member...

Unit 10 offers a really nice change of pace from the previous 9 lessons...

Evaluating student's learning is an important step after teaching...

In my experience, the external tests are often English language learners' light at the end of the tunnel...

This was even more informative unit for me...

There are several types of tenses namely present, past simple, past continuous, Past perfect, past perfect continuous tense...

This unit has been extremely helpful in understanding how to create a lesson plan and utilise it in a way that is structured yet flexible to students' timing and needs...

Wow, this unit was the hardest unit yet...

This unit was all about testing, it goes into the different types of tests that taken in certain points of the course and which tests are useful for which purposes...

What I learn from the two videos is that the teacher didn?t implement the teaching methodology in the first video correctly so the students didn?t benefit enough from his lesson ...

The focus of this lesson centered around Class Management...

Unit four focuses on the usage of present tenses...

Unit six taught me about the different forms past sentences can take...

Teaching receptive skills should be done with careful consideration of the students, their levels of understanding and their interest of topics presented to them...

This unit on pronunciation and phonology was enjoyable...

The language level of students can be assessed through tutorials, student evaluations and tests...

In this unit, I learned about the fundamentals of conditions and the different types: zero conditional, first conditional, second conditional, third conditional, and mixed conditional...

The balance of importance between grammar and vocabulary is highlighted throughout this unit...

In conclusion, this unit introduces four tenses: present simple, present continuous, present perfect and present perfect continuous...

This unit was a great review of what I learned from the combination online and in class course I previously took...

Over the years as a special education aide and lacrosse coach, I have grown to be more flexible with my lessons and practices, and have learned to reflect immediately after either of them to ensure student/player growth...

Some of the essential components of learning a new language are learning it's vocabulary, it's grammar and all of its other functions...

This unit covered grammar points of modal auxiliary verbs, passive voice, relative clauses and phrasal verbs...

There was a lot of information to digest in this unit of study...

This lesson covers the two topics that people usually think of right away when imagining language classes - the productive activities of speaking and writing...

I found this unit particularly interesting as it made me aware of how teachers must adjust their methods based on the age and experience of the learner...

Speaking and writing, although are different in many ways, both are used for the same purpose- communicate...