TEFL Reviews

I loved the variety of materials presented in this unit and it is heartening to think of teachers creating their own materials--this is what I advocate strongly for all of my pre-service educators...

Unit 5 is a good reminder for all teachers on how to manage classes better by organizing the lessons and the actual classroom, as well as maintaining discipline while having a friendly and relaxed manner...

This unit covered the different theories regarding language acquisition (4 major ones: maturation, constructivism, environmentalism, and other theories)...

The videos show two contrasting teaching styles...

Unit 20 is apparently the shortest but the most important of all...

This unit discusses the grammatical issues of modal auxiliary verbs, passive voice, relative clauses, and phrasal verbs...

In this lesson the productive skills were focused on...

In this unit I have learned that students can be easily confused with the usage of the future tenses...

This unit introduces the course for teaching business English...

This unit gives an overview of receptive skills—reading and listening—and how one might create lesson plans to effectively target both...

This unit has taught me a lot about the different tests that can be done before and during the course, whether it is an additional course after school or if it is part of the school hours...

Learning comprises two elements, the teacher and the learner...

This course gives an overview of different types of classes one might teach...

In this unit I have learnt about evaluation and testing...

Again we see the spectrum between the natural method and the didactic direct teaching method...

The purpose of this unit was to understand the roles, responsibilities, and impacts that weigh on both teacher and student...

This unit illustrated through video the different outcomes a lesson can have based solely on the way that it is being taught...

The contents of the unit offers a wide explanation about theories related to learning and development from childhood to maturity; and also take into account ideas and theories about the first and second language adquisition process...

This is the unit that had the newest information for me thus far...

Creating lesson plans gets easier and faster...

This was a very interesting lesson...

First off, I was happy to see that the teacher in the first video was also the teacher in the second video because the first was so painful to watch...

This unit tells about the variety of teaching methods, and the best one is ESA (Engage, Study, Activate) since it keeps students and teacher active, creative and always engaged...

Planning lessons serves as an aid to planning, a working document, and a record...

Units 3 reveals much important and practical information about English language teaching, bringing us to a new high level, which can satisfy my current needs and I appreciate a lot...

Unit 12 focused on the productive skills, writing and speaking and the importance of both...

This unit was a good overview of the advantages and disadvantages of using a course book...

When creating a lesson plan a teacher should consider the differences in using authentic materials, which are materials a native speaker would be exposed to and created materials which are made by the teacher...

In unit 10, the videos showed the differences between the incorrect and correct ways of teaching English to foreign students...

Conditionals and Reported Speech are an area of language that can become confusing and the student needs an understanding of past, present and future tense to learn this...

Both videos clearly show that how an effective way of teaching will attract the students' attention as well as rising up their interest in learning...

In this unit, we're introduced to teaching equipment and teaching aids, which are tools that help the class run smoother, the students learn better (aided by videos, workbooks, audio files, computers, and online sources), and the teacher to be more effective in his/her attempts to teach English language learners...

As the start of the unit said grammar is really hard to learn...

Unit 9 looks at course books and materials and the benefits of both Authentic and created materials in a class setting...

Grammer-translation, Audio-lingualism, Presentation, practice and production, Task based learning, Suggestopedia, Lexical approach e...

This unit takes into consideration several cultural topics we need to be aware the moment we decide to teach english in different countries around the world...

This unit was a crash course in English grammar...

This unit started with an analytic introduction for parts of speech...

I like the problem-based structure...

This Unit is about Conditionals and reported speech...