TEFL Reviews

So far, Unit 10 has been one of the most interesting and challenging units of the course because of two reasons: 1) it clearly demands from the TEFL students to actively use the learned knowledge in the previous units, applying it to a real classroom setting...

The unit is dedicated to theories, methods, and techniques of teaching...

The attitude of the teacher is very important when teaching a new language...

Productive skills are those skills in which we havve to produce language, those skills are Writing and Speaking...

Unit 10 provides two different video lessons for comparison...

Almost all classrooms have a board...

This unit was quite long...

Each video provided very unique examples of both positive and negative bahaviours in the classroom...

In order to aid the teaching process, as teachers, we will often bring to the class various types of materials intending to help us in the lesson...

This unit though short has provided a number of very useful suggestions on how to deal with common problems teachers may face from time to time in a class...

This was a shorter unit on the teaching of receptive skills, listening and reading, where the student is the recipient of communicative information...

Unit 13 covered teaching Pronunciation and Phonology...

This was an interesting unit, as I didn't realize that there were so many types of future tenses...

Language skills can be divided into two categories: productive skills and receptive skills...

Materials created by teachers can be divided into two groups, authentic materials which can be geared towards the interest of a particular group of students and created materials...

In this unit I have learnt so many things about the history of ELT methodology...

I now have a better understanding of the roles both a teacher and a student play in a class setting...

This unit is a very useful introductory to teaching young adults...

The previous units in this course have done an amazing job training me to prepare a days worth of class activities...

This unit focuses on speaking and writing, the two production-based skills of language...

I’ve known a lot from the third unit...

This unit focuses on skills necessary in organising and managing the class...

This Unit describes the modals auxiliary verbs, phrasal verbs and passive voice...

Unit 18 continues the grammar train with modals, phrasal verbs and passive voice...

There are many different kinds of students learning the English language...

There are various schools of thought on the issue of if it is necessary to plan lessons...

I learned in this unit the different types of classes...

This unit was extremely important and useful for me since I have not had an opportunity to revise my knowledge of phonology since I graduated from university...

In language teaching, there are many different methods and techniques such as ‘ESA’ - Engage, Study and Activate method, ‘PPP’ - Presentation, Practice and Production method, ‘CLT’ - Communicative Language Teaching, task-based learning and grammar-translation...

In this unit, I watched two different videos, each of a TEFL class about the same topic but taught in very different manners...

Unit 7 reiterated the importance of teaching vocabulary properly and effectively as well as some of the contributing factors that influence how difficult or easy the language is retained (similarity to students' native language, words they are already familiar with, spelling and pronounciation, and the suitability/appropriacy of the word being learned)...

Yet again another great section of learning, with so many possibilities, but even more so where engaging the students is imperative via the engagement stage...

This unit is about teaching new language focusing on vocabulary, grammar and functions...

Learning how sounds are developed in the mouth and articulated is very insightful when teaching English...

Speaking and writing have the same purpose - to communicate...

There are a lot of complicated grammar points in this unit, especially the phrasal verbs...

The teacher in the first video made a variety of mistakes...

We can assess the student's language level through tutorials, evaluation by the students and different types of tests...

This unit revolved around the benefits of materials and course books you use in your classroom...

i believe that this unit is particularly important to help learners understand the basic structure of a sentence and how to form those sentences correctly...