TEFL Reviews

Troubleshooting common problems that may arise in the classroom are important but also challenging...

This unit focused on language production, i...

This unit discusses about evaluation and tests we may need to prepare our students for...

As we have learned in previous units, the use of multiple teaching aids is effective in the classroom...

This unit has provided very valuable information for me in my roles of a TESOL instructor and student earning a TESOL certification...

Managing a class a teacher should be aware of certain factors and options that can have a positive or negative impact on class discipline, interaction and rapport...

Classroom management is a term teachers use to describe the process of ensuring that classroom lessons run smoothly despite disruptive behavior by students...

In this unit, I reviewed some important information regarding the receptive skills of reading and listening...

This unit focused on lesson planning...

The productive skills, speaking and writing, was the topic for this unit...

This unit covered a lot, ranging from establishing rapport, to maintaining discipline, to general interactions between teacher and student...

In this unit we are taught of the different methods of teaching a new language to students, here we went through previous models (though some of them are still in use) and studied where they were good and where they fall short, later on we are introduced to the ESA (Engage, Study, Activate) method which was created by Jeremy Harner in 1998...

The unit is based on the different ways a teacher can teach and how effective his or her teaching would be...

Constructing sentence using the basic subject-verb structure is easy, but building a sentence to be more interesting and meaningful is challenging...

Unit seven explains the three areas of teaching that a lesson will cover...

This unit covered modals, the passive voice, relative clauses, and phrasal verbs...

Firstly, I have gained an in-depth knowledge of the use of authentic materials versus created materials...

The two types of productive skills are speaking and writing...

Once a teacher introduces a topic as \"easy\" it cuts the communication from the students to the teacher...

Proper classroom management by the teacher is essential to creating an effective learning environment for students...

There are clear differences between video one and video two...

Unit 5 talks about planning the lessons...

This unit covered conditionals and reported speech and gave some good teaching examples for each of these topics...

Speaking and writing skills are equally important...

This chapter gave me insight into how teaching ESL students vocabulary and grammar should be approached...

This unit outlines and explains the grammar points dealing with conditional statements and questions as well as reported speech...

There are many different methods that can be used during teaching...

It is vitally important to realise how and under what circumstances the tense or grammar point is used...

Teaching Pronunciation and Phonology is quite difficult for some ESL teachers as they often lack confidence to teach it methodically and others also lack the training and confidence to tackle this area...

This unit deals with the kind of approach that a teacher should have in order to be a good manager of his/her classroom...

In this unit I learned that authentic materials are not designed for ESL students and are not grated for levels...

This unit provides a guideline to the different teaching techniques; structures of a class, correction techniques and overall methodology...

The unit gives the basic knowledge about lesson planning...

Vocabulary, grammar and functions are important in the classroom environment because they are another key part to the success of the students...

This unit was great for me in terms of understanding the various types of teaching methods, as we know that not all learners are the same...

This unit covered phonology and phonetics - the study of sound in language and how sounds are physically transmitted...

In this unit they focus on different ways of evaluating students? levels and progress, as well as some of the more common external exams that we as teachers may need to prepare our students for...

This unit taught me about present tenses- simple present, present continuous, present perfect and present perfect continuous...

Unit 5 reflection...

The receptive skills - reading and listening and how to excercise them in the classroom are well covered in this unit...