Alternative Teaching Certification South Dakota

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL South Dakota and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: J.O. - Korea said: This unit covers methodologies and techniques in EFL teaching. A few examples of applied approaches and methods are Grammar - translation, Audio - lingualism, Presentation, Practice and Production, Communicative Language Teaching and Suggestopaedia. The ESA approach applies the most important conditions and is particularly appropriate for new teachers and trainees. ESA lessons comprise of the following components: Engage (this is the part of the lesson where the aim is to warm up the students...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Sioux Falls South Dakota and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: Unit 2 parts of speech has thought me a lot about sentence and making good sentence, we all know grammar is an area of English that strikes fear into the hearts of both students and teachers,but when you look at it from a logical angle,it should not present too much difficulties, it also give you wild understanding of your Verbs,adverbs,pronounce,nouns,pronounce. etcUnit 8 covers the future tenses and the present simple\\continuous, be going + infinitive structure which can...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Java South Dakota and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: In my current position, I use a number of created materials from sites like lantern fish or boggles world as well as from other assistant language teachers. However, I have no control over the coursebooks used, although since I teach English to Japanese students in Japan, I am lucky that the coursebooks are geared towards issues that could arise coming from a Japanese language background. I enjoy making my own created materials, however I do not often use authentic materials in class. I think in the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Mellette South Dakota and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: In this unit, I learned about different tenses and ideas with future meanings. This future tense system is very complex. It's actually more complex than the simple tense and the past tense because there are seven common forms in the future tense systems (as opposed to four in the other two tense systems). Also, it is not as common to see the complex future tenses in everyday English expressions. I find the explanations for each future tense format extremely clear and helpful. When I follow the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Roslyn South Dakota and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: Unit 6 is a refresher of the past tenses, which are the past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and the past perfect continuous. It talked about the roles of each past tense and the uses for it: past simple is usually used to state a completed action in the past, the past continuous is used to state an ongoing action at a past time, the past perfect is used to state events that were completed before another past action (\"the past in the past\"), and the past perfect continuous is used mostly...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Bushnell South Dakota and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This unit talked about the other type of skills, the productive skills. It went into detail on the difference between activities centered around fluency and activities centered around accuracy, and the difference between them. The unit also talked about guided activities and controlled activities, and when to step in or lay back and let the students kind of do their thing. Some activities incorporate more teacher control than others, and I would say that is what I learned most from this lesson....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Colton South Dakota and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: Student achievement and performance is directly related to teacher?s ability to motivate or demotivate them. It is therefore important that teachers should make students? learning experience meaningful with lots of interesting and lessons and activities. Moreover, it is equally necessary to understand students? needs by giving them opportunity to respond to the need analysis questionnaire. This way, language teachers will have a general knowledge about what learners already know and what they...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Dupree South Dakota and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: There are advantages and disadvantages in using course books. Using course book is less time consuming and it provides a syllabus which is graded to a level suitable for the students. However, it does not always fit the specific needs and interests of all the class members and it may not cover in enough depth language problems specific to the nationality of students we are teaching. Therefore, teachers should know when to omit certain lessons from the course book and replace some of the course book...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Eden South Dakota and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This unit was very helpful and eye opening. It has been a long time since I studied up on past tense usage and I had forgotten most of the rules and information. I can now see all four types of the past tense usage in my day to day. The past simple seems to be the most common method which is easy for English language beginners to understand. The past continuous is helpful for when there was an interruption. The past perfect was a bit confusing at first so I was happy to see there were a lot more...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Buffalo South Dakota and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: Three important parts of teaching new language is vocabulary, grammar and language function. There are several things to remember when choosing new vocabulary for students to learn. We need to choose which one is appropriate for the tasks or to the students themselves, the frequency and coverage of the new vocabulary, and the teachability -whether the student is beginner or advance). And the most important part in teaching new language is we need to use the ESA method which has been introduced in...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL chamberlain South Dakota and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: Unit 3 covered several different methodologies of learning each with it's own strengths and weaknesses. Engage, Study and Activate was presented as this courses core of teaching. As a new student to teaching I found the this material exciting as it gave the basis to actually teaching a class. The examples of elicitation,the use of flash card, pictures were quite helpful. As well as, the the examples of engage, study and activate such as straight arrow, boomerang and patchwork lessons. The...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Lemmon South Dakota and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: The productive skills consist of two parts which is speaking and writing. Almost most of the time, writing has been neglected by most people. Usually students really eager to speak more fluent than write better. In my opinion this could be true because speaking is much more practical as we use it in our daily life or when you go travelling. Writing on the other hand is more of producing articles or stories or even a blog in nowadays life. Whether it is in formal or informal format, writing takes...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Corona South Dakota and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: In the unit ?Teaching productive skills? there were presented two productive skills which are writing and speaking. These productive skills are equally important and need to be developed by students with the help of a teacher. While speaking activities accuracy and fluency are caring the same importance but they have different goals. Accuracy is more concentrated on correct language and fluency on using the language in a creative way and understanding it. In the unit there were presented speaking...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Vivian South Dakota and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This section was about the different past tenses. It served as a good refresher to the present tenses, as they are conceptually similar. It provided example sentences, which I like to see and find very helpful. It also provided situations in which we would use each tense. I think it was a bit shorter since it was somewhat redundant to the present tense section, which went into more detail. I now understand both a bit better. Even though I am a native speaker, remembering these rules and being able...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Nunda South Dakota and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This lesson discusses the principles of teaching reading and listening skills. Students need both skills to get information in a foreign language, with listening skills being predictably a bit harder to learn because it is fast and often unrepeated. Exposure to language, while choosing texts and listenings that are interesting is key to motivate the students to practice gleaning information from a foreign language source. We read and listen for many purposes (predicting, skimming, scanning, and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Utica South Dakota and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: In this unit, I learned how to different the difference of past tenses such as the past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous. To abe able to dictate the tense of a sentence first you have to focus on the structure rather than its usage because the structure helps dictates which tense it is categorized. I also learned that the best ways to teach past tense are by teamwork, using picture card in groups or story telling. For this type of lesson, we should not use a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Howard South Dakota and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: Managing classes requires many skills. The most important ones include being confident and enthusiastic with the students so that they will enjoy their experience of learning English language.You need to be able to make the students feel relaxed by encouraging them to ask questions and to also contribute with feedback. This will create towards having a happy and interactive class. I have learnt about positions that are helpful for the teacher, where to stand when writing material on the blackboard...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Huron South Dakota and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This unit discussed the importance of teaching students how to pronounce words and shape them in their mouth. It also brought up the idea of allowing students to do things like linked speech which has become very common in the world today. This unit made me realize that teaching English in South Korea might not be as difficult because their language and alphabet is already based on the shape the mouth makes. Phonetically speaking Korean is very similar to English. Before this unit I had never really...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Revillo South Dakota and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This unit gives a breakdown of methodologies, theories and techniques used in teaching students. It gives suggestive pros and cons for most methods described. I have found the ESA (Engage, Study and Activate) to be the most exciting and beneficial methodology to use in lessons, as it allows for great flexibility for lesson planning and running of lessons for the teacher in the classroom. It also equips students with an inquiry/discovery based environment by allowing the teacher to talk less and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Frederick South Dakota and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: It is important to understand that the first thing a student needs to know is words. Students should normally work in pairs or small groups to pool their knowledge. Higher level vocabulary learning can be spontaneous or planned. During any reading or listening exercise a student is likely to encounter one or more words that they do not know. When that happens and when the students notice the word as an unknown word they will attempt to learn the word. Teachers can help the students to notice...  [Read more]