Barriers To Listening

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Elkton Viriginia 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 covered the productive skills, speaking and writing. These two skills are important in that they are what students will use to express themselves in English. Productive skills are somewhat easier to teach in that direct feedback can be given based on what students say or write. (This is as opposed to reading and listening skills.) It is useful to note that how a students native language is structured can influence how they speak and write in English due to structural differences and biases...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Pachuca Mexico 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 units focus was teaching receptive skills. It also explained what productive skills were. I find these definitions useful. The unit explained the considerations a teacher should make when delivering receptive skill themed lessons - specifically the purposes, skills, potential problems/barriers to learning and the general approach one should take. I found this useful and insightful.Understanding receptive skills is very important as it involves how the students will absorb the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Fukuyama Japan 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 unit was about the parts of speech. The unit gave the main information about all the parts of speech in a very simple and clear way - in a structural way there were presented all the peculiarities of each part of speech. There were also given all the exceptions. Thanks to examples everything was clear! The unit was useful for a revision of all the previously learned information. Thank you!I found this unit to be very vague compared to the other units. I think I have a better...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Austria Vienna 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 gave a basic introduction to the importance of teaching the receptive skills of reading and listening. The idea of teaching reading can be misconstrued at face value. A teacher might focus on the basic structures of sentences and paragraphs, and teach the students how to use phonics to sound out words that they might not know. This unit dove deeper by stating that in order to effectively teach reading; a teacher also need to focus on not only teaching how to recognize and understand...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Arecibo Puerto Rico 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 get to know that reading and listening are receptive skills. Language, topic, genre and comprehension tasks can be a barrier to understand a text in a way, what ESL teachers can do is to facilitate comprehension. Teachers are supposed to choose the materials that interest students and build interest before listening or reading. After Engage and Study, it is better for ESL teachers to incorporate activate phases which naturally lead on from the passage.This unit covered a wide...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Meacham Oregon 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 information in this unit was valuable to me because I was able to recognize the importance of perception. I have a better understanding of how a person who is learning a new language may become confused by only listening to the new language. English beginners might appreciate reading material so they can repeat the words and sound it out on their own. One important thing I realized is the language barrier that is affected by culture. In america we have preconceived notions about things that a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Columbus 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: L.B. - Japan said: This unit encompasses productive skills, which comprises of speaking and writing. As said before, all skills are equally important. Writing can be more difficult to master due to it being repetition based. For example if one were to learn traditional Chinese characters, one would need to know the stroke order which takes a huge amount of time and practice as opposed to just learning the word character. Speaking activities can be grouped as controlled and guided, and fluency based activities...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Rio Claro Brazil 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: Reading and listening: The 2 Receptive skills. The focus of both accuracy and fluency. Different types of activities for different phases of the ESA lessons. Especially useful part was the bit where the unit talked about SPEAKING skills and presented a sample ESA lesson plan. Here in Japan, where I teach English training to this day, has been heavily focused on developing writing skills. So many of my students are good writers, but they don't do so well in speaking. Not only for cultural reasons,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Comprehensive TESOL Language 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.P. - U.S.A. said: Young leaners vs adultsAs children enter schooling age, they learn quickly as they adapt building knowledge and absorbing information to their environment. For adults, compared with children, language acquisition is more difficult although they put a great deal more effort. What are some of the major differences to find between young learners and adults? Why is it necessary to find out the differences between those two groups? Children learn new languages very easily just...  [Read more]

Common Linguistic problems Contronyms, Heteronyms, Idioms, Oh my! English is an extremely complex language. Before a student can be considered truly proficient, he/she must not only master a variety of tenses and irregular verbs, sentence structure and parts of speech, but he/she must also work to understand and master lexical and structural ambiguities. Lexical ambiguities are very common and have a variety of names and definitions depending on the level of ambiguity. Homonyms are words that have the same spelling, but two or more meanings. An example of this is: mean. Is it describing an unkind person? Is it an average? Is someone talking about the definition of a word? Another type of lexical ambiguity is the heteronym. These are words that are spelled the same, but have different...  [Read more]

Teaching methodologies in the "Super-learning" class “Super learning” (SL) is an accelerated learning technique and a fast-growing business, with varying results. Lessons usually last a whole day, and the course is often concentrated into a weekend. Some courses are based simply on suggestopedia, promising - but not always delivering - great results: “learn French in five days”. However, some successfully combine suggestopedia with other teaching methods to deliver good results. SL is designed to aid the learning process by removing learning barriers, stimulating both hemispheres of the brain simultaneously, as well as activating some of the intelligences not normally represented in a traditional course. The classroom environment is set up to facilitate subconscious learning, as...  [Read more]

Establishing Rapport I remember back to my early days of academic progression through the Australian public school system with mixed emotions. In the main, English (and other subjects for that matter) were laboriously taught “strictly by the book”, by uninteresting individuals in droning monotone, that failed to instill any ongoing interest in either the subject matter, or the lesson as a whole. My attention unerringly moved to watching the second hand on the clock excruciatingly slowly, rotate through three hundred and sixty degrees, marking the completion of that minute and the start of the next, that would eventually culminate in the required number of minutes being completed to conclude the lesson and the hasty, mass exodus from the classroom, at great risk to life and limb, by...  [Read more]

Songs in the Classroom The use of songs in the ESL classroom can be a fun and innovative way of covering a range of English language topics. Songs can be used for vocabulary, grammar, dictation, pronunciation (stress and intonation), phonetics, speaking, writing, listening, integrative skills, and many other ESL points. Furthermore, songs can invite the non-native speaker into the English speaking culture. For instance, pop music gives the learner a taste of what is trendy at the moment. Meanwhile, the lyrics to classic rock songs can give a sense of history and the attitude of the country at the time of recording (for example, “Give Peace a Chance,” John Lennon, 1969). Additionally, children’s songs are crucially important for the young learner as they are an easy way to encourage...  [Read more]