Amanda Torres

  Amanda from Brazil is currently living in Ankara, Turkey. Amanda completed her TEFL course with ITTT and found a job just two weeks after graduating. In this TEFL review video Amanda recommends ITTT’s TEFL course for those wanting to teach English abroad. Amanda liked how the course not only covered grammar but also taught methods and techniques that can help you become a great teacher. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next. The linguistic...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Torrey Utah 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: I feel that I've learned a lot from this lesson. In most cases I knew what was being discussed to some degree, but there is a difference from knowing to actually knowing the terms that go with it. One thing that I truly learned was Gerunds. I don't remember ever hearing this term before and I believe in most cases I would just call gerunds a verb. So this was one thing I was really happy about. As since this unit is on grammar I thought I would be really bored with it and not learn anything new. For some...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Lafayette Indiana 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 Theories, Methods and Techniques: Engage Stage: Have to ensure that very students speaks Enlish during the classroom. In this stage students shouldnt corrected.And the main aim is to have high students talk time Study Stage: This stage generally starts with elicitation. Do not interrept the students talking ,just be monitor. Mistakes has to be solved in this study stage. Students has to be encourage to use all of the language they know. Activate Stage:Students has to be encourage to be more...  [Read more]

ESA: A Teaching Methodology For many years Teachers of English have used the PPP model of Presentation, Practice and Production for the preferred model of teaching. It has worked well. The PPP model falls short however, in that it does not work well when teaching more complex language problems beyond the sentence level or when teaching communicative skills. Jeremy Harmer in How to Teach English (Longman Publishing 1998) proposed an alternative to PPP called ESA: Engage, Study, and Activate. In an article written in The Guardian Weekend, March 15 1997, Bridget Riley complained about the treatment she and her fellow students received at the Royal College of Art. “We were abandoned when what we needed and what we hoped for was help toward independence in teaching rather than having...  [Read more]

Problems for learners in a Country of your choice: Italy In this paper I will address the issues I face as a teacher from the context of living and working in Italy, as well as the common problems my students encounter while learning and speaking English. I also want to draw attention to the input culture and society has on language, and look at how these factors influence dynamics within the classroom. Of course, it is nearly impossible to view ones self outside your own given cultural perspective, so as a result of this I will also be discussing my own assumptions on how I "imagined" people might act, compared to the reality of the situation. Often I neglect to take into account these differences, simply because I was raised in America, where I am used to a different set of cultural...  [Read more]