TEFL Reviews

Receptive skills and production skills are very important for learning a language...

When it comes to teaching language, it has been demonstrated that there is not one single best method for everyone in all contexts, and that no one teaching method is inherently superior to the others...

This unit covers some of the common problem situations a teacher is likely to encounter in his/her teaching career...

This unit talks about the teaching of vocabulary, grammar and functions...

Group work in classrooms has become more and more common over the last several years...

A good learning experience consists of many factors, two of those are also a good teacher and a \"good\" student...

This unit covered the parts of speech (nouns, adjectives, articles, verbs, adverbs, gerunds, pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions) and, to an extent, how these different parts are used in a sentence...

Conditions and reported speech are challenging and it is important to take it slow...

This unit was more closely resembling linguistic classes I've had in the past...

This unit describes different forms of evaluation and testing to gauge the levels and knowledge of the English language to those who are non-native English speakers...

Task Sheet for Unit 2 (Parts of Speech) 1...

This unit basically talked about managing classes...

I learned several things in this unit...

Teaching Beginners requires skill, experience and compassion...

Unit 3 on course development showed how graded level tests help placing students at different levels according to their ability...

While I understood the abstract concepts discussed in this unit prior to study (e...

The difference between using authentic materials and Created materials: Authentic cannot be graded, however they can build the student confidence levels when they understand them...

This unit provides a comprehensive overview of the types of material for the ESL classroom - authentic versus created, the advantages of using each type, as well as the advantages and the disadvantages of using a textbook...

Unit 7 is a good quick review with helpful ESA planning for vocabulary, grammar and function of the language...

Unit 4 explores materials, both authentic and non-authentic, that can aid the teaching process...

I have learned a lot in this lesson...

Personally I myself have always prided myself on being able to look after myself in whatever situation I happen to find myself...

Learning about Receptive Skills in this lesson focused on two out of the four skills total: Reading and Listening...

Unit sixteen pays attention to grammar part which is very important in English language teaching which conditionals and reported speech ...

In this unit, we transitioned into a deep discussion of the different past tenses...

This unit deals with issues related to course books and classroom materials...

I learned from this unit the uses for auxiliary verbs to express formality...

This unit allows us to review the future tenses in various ways...

In this unit we had videos of two lessons which focused on the same auxiliary verbs can and can't and these where taught in different ways...

In Unit 10 Video Lessons I got to watch two alternate examples of how to conduct a lesson...

The classroom dynamics shown through both videos made it quite obvious how important a teacher's attitude, body language, enthusiasm, offering clear and understandable instruction with EXAMPLES, and knowing the student's name is in order to build rapport with students, and liberate them to engage in participation more freely...

This unit covered theories, methods, and techniques for ESL teaching...

Unit 20 brings up some of the common difficulties an EFL teacher will encounter, such as large classes, students at different levels, and the use of the students' native language in class...

Unit 8 is a meticulous chapter that explains the 7 ways to make the future...

This unit made it clear that while both speaking and writing influence how creative a student can be, there are many reasons why having a good understanding of both is important...

Unit 5 covers the topic of classroom management...

From this Unit I could learn how to teach English to different groups, with different interests and requirements, what methods should we use as an ESL teacher...

Unit 4 treats in details the present tense...

This unit explains about 'if conditional' and 'reported speech'...

I took a linguistics class in college and was surprised as to how much of it I had actually forgotten...