TEFL Reviews

Unit 8 dealt with various future tenses and also the present tenses which are sometimes used to convey future time meanings within common usage...

In Unit 8, I learned the importance of the \"be going + infinitive ('going to' future)\" tense...

There are 4 main groups of learning and developmental theories...

Teaching vocabulary, grammar, and language functions can be more thought out than what initially meets the eye...

Unit 10, is a great example of what to do and not to do in a classroom...

This Unit presented 5 Future \"tenses...

Receptive skills is one of the two major skills in learning language...

Student evaluation methods are Tutorials, Evaluation by the students, and Tests...

This unit covered the topic of conditionals and the difference between direct and reported speech...

Managing a group of students can be complicated, luckily there are many options for managing one's class...

Communication between humans is an extremely complex and ever-changing phenomenon, but there are certain generalizations that we can make about the majority of communicative events and these will have particular relevance for the learning and teaching of languages...

Unit 11 addresses the Teaching of the Receptive Skills: Reading and Listening...

The overview of the content of this unit was to show how difficult it is to teach English and to give examples of what will be covered in the class material...

This unit covered the four past tense verb structures...

This is a very significant unit...

I feel I have a solid understanding of testing and evaluating, although I don't give many tests to my students...

Both videos have the same setting, same students and teacher, however the outcomes are completely different, mostly due to the attitude of the teacher who was definitely not enjoying his time there and had the students confused and feeling stupid...

In this unit it is pointed out that there are 4 things students need to do with a new language; that is; be exposed to it, understand its meaning, understand how it's constructed and be able to practice and produce it...

In this unit I was introduced to English grammar...

In this lesson, I learned how to successfully teach vocabulary words, grammatical structures, and language functions...

The content of this unit begins with the different roles of the teacher to a group or individual learner, it also goes onto the differing roles and motivations of learners encountered in the Business English environment and differing levels, advantages and disadvantages of teaching adults...

Managing a classroom encompasses a variety of points to be aware of...

This unit covered various aspects of lesson planning...

Firstly, this unit reflects on the EFL methodologies, advantages, and disadvantages of individual methodology...

I really enjoyed this unit because I am well-aware of the debate that rages regarding course material...

In this lesson, I learned about the difficulties and nuances of teaching pronunciation, which a majority of English learners view as the most difficult aspect of learning English...

Unit 19 gives many tips on how to teach different types of special groups...

Teachers need to be able to inspire confidence in students...

Unit 10 contrasted a poorly executed class with an effectively managed one...

When teaching a new language to a class, teachers must differentiate between vocabulary, grammar, and language functions, and then consider which ESA format is most appropriate...

Lesson planning is an integral part of teaching...

Unit Five discusses the planning and evaluation of lessons including the planning of individual sessions and a series of lessons...

I learnt that diagnosing issue with new learners of English can be challenging at times especially for new teachers...

Pronunciation is often neglected by teachers because it can be difficult for native speakers themselves to make sense of it - Why does \"broth\" sound different in \"brother,\" and why is \"heard\" pronounced differently from \"beard?\" Pronunciation, however, is critical for English students, not only to help them sound intelligent, but also to allow them to actually communicate their points...

This unit discusses evaluation and assessment through testing...

This unit was so helpful...

The purpose of this unit is to explain the complexities of correctly pronouncing words of the English language and the different meanings they carry depending on the context they're used in as well as ways they're pronounced...

The language learning experience has two important sides: the teacher and the learner...

I enjoyed this section a lot...

In this unit I learned about the rules of modal auxiliary verbs such as can, could, may, might, etc...