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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification China Handan 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: Pronunciation depends on three main categories, stress, intonation, and phonetics, each of which can vary the meaning of words and phrases. Stress is which syllables and words are emphasized in a sentence, and changing which word is stressed can change the implied meaning of the sentence. Intonation involves the fluctuation of pitch in a sentence, and is mainly used to differentiate between questions, and let the listener know whether to respond or keep listening. Phonetics is the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Poza Rica De Hidalgo 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 unit I have learned how to create a lesson plan, this is very helpful since this aids in planning what I expect my students to achieve by the end of the lesson, and how I intend to make that possible, helps me to think logically through the stages in relation to available time (creates a logical sequences for the lesson), to keep on target and gives me something to refer to during the lesson. However I should not stop from being flexible and responding to the needs of the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Weihai 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: D.K. - Switzerland said: A lesson that is taught to a class, regardless of the level, will usually focus on any of the following three categories: vocabulary, grammar and functions. The unit presents a very interesting and clear metaphor that explains how these three categories work together to build the knowledge that a student has of a specific language. \"Grammar is often said to be the tree trunk and branches of a language while vocabulary and fuctions are the leaves that add beauty and variety.\" One cannot...  [Read more]

Teaching Vocabulary The concept of teaching vocabulary to students of a foreign language is not impossible but must be approached carefully. There are several ways to deliver the information to students so that they learn the English language ’s vocabulary. For example, Joseph Pettigrew from Boston University posted an interesting article online that gives suggestions on how to go about presenting and teaching vocabulary to students. Pettigrew suggests teaching methods that include simple, old-fashioned English language tools such as synonyms and antonyms. Synonyms may be used in matching exercises and antonyms may be used in exercises matching opposites. He also suggests using fill in the blank sentences as a form of exercise. This is perhaps an effective exercise for learning this...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Flexible TESOL Programs 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: K.F. - U.S.A. said: Linguistic learning Have you ever wondered why the student sitting next to you can get all the word problems in math correct, or why some students are better at writing than others? Well, the most probable answer is that they are Linguistic learners. Linguists is the study of human language. Linguistic learning is a style of learning that refers to a person's ability to reason, solve problems, and learn using language. Linguistics has several fields or categories that fall under its...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Clinton New Jersey 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 18 is about modal,s phrasal verbs and passive voice. We learned that modals express a number of different ideas, such as obligation, possibility, permission, ability and advice, with a few words having multiple meanings behind the word. Modal verbs can change the formality and meaning of the main verb within a sentence. Passive voice, there are two voices in English, passive and active. Active is more focus on the agent, while passive is more so the subject. The form for the auxiliary verb +...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs La Paz 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 unit focused on the materials used by teachers in the classroom. Course books can often be a point of disagreement amongst educators. Course books offer a tested structure for the class, but may be out of date or not create an interest on the part of the students. Materials are divided into two categories, authentic materials and created materials. Authentic materials are things like newspapers and magazines. Created materials are created by the educator, like crossword puzzles.I have sometimes...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Zhumadian China 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 module was a great review on English Grammar. It gave great examples of nouns, adjectives, articles, verbs, adverbs, gerunds, pronouns, and prepositions/conjunction. It also gave me ideas on how to teach each concept during a class. For example, writing a sentence and having the students to come up and underlining or circle the different categories of words. Grammar lessons could be broken down into number of parts so that it's not too overwhelming for the students. When I look back at the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Iraq Kirkuk 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 taught in this unit is more or less the reason I chose to take this course in the first place. It's the nuts and bolts of how English works and is constructed that I hope to brush up on, and become better at teaching. There are several rules for certain types of words (ex. no possessive pronouns ever contain an apostrophe) that I either never learned properly, or had long since forgotten. Another example of something I took away from this unit is the many different categories...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Vancouver United States 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 thoroughly enjoyed this unit as I learnt about different ways to set up my classroom and why. Another interesting aspect was the gestures and how/when to use them. I hadn't considered that pointing at a student may be a negative gesture and that using an open hand is more polite. This will be a particularly important factor in Asian countries I think. As a past student of human behaviour, the unit was very interesting and easy to understand.Unit 2 introduces grammar as parts of a...  [Read more]

  James from England works in Indonesia as an English teacher. In this TESOL review James tells us that he decided to do ITTT's online 120 hour TEFL/TESOL course in order to further his teaching qualifications and to improve his teaching skills. James completed the course with the tutor support option. He is now undertaking to complete ITTT's advanced 370 hour TEFL/TESOL Diploma Course. 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. In this unit I have learnt...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs India Latur 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 discusses the building blocks of language covering what makes up the parts of speech, showing how sentences are constructed and how words are related to each other. Parts of speech are broken into categories based on their function in sentences and include nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, among others. Many categories have subcategories, for example types of nouns include common, proper, compound and collective, and types of verbs include action and state verbs. ...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Deephaven Minnesota 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 7 is about teaching receptive skills, reading and listening. There are two categories for reasons and motives of reading and listening which are for a purpose and for entertainment. Reading and listening also includes your mind to understand words and process them in our pre-existent knowledge to gain true understanding. It's important to use topics that are of interest to the students. I learned that it is important to have a balance of words the students know and don't know in a lesson. That...  [Read more]

  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word bowdlerize. This word is used to refer to the act of removing improper or offensive material in order to make it weaker or less effective. Some synonyms for bowdlerize include censor, expurgate or edit. 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. In this lesson, I learned about a direct and indirect speech. I was able to see how to relay to my students the different ways to properly talk and relay...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Kunming 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: R.H. – U.S.A. said: Vocabulary, grammar and functions take an essential part in second language learning, being central to language teaching and of a paramount importance to a language learner at the same time. In claiming the significance of focusing on vocabulary, the teacher not only needs to teach lexis, but also should combine these together with grammar and functions. Lexical context and grammar are considered inseparable in nature, also completely interdependent, that is, the lexis consists of word, meaning...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Lincolnton North Carolina 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 showed me the guidelines on how a teacher should present a new language to a student. There are three main areas that make up a language : Vocabulary (the actual words that compose it), Grammar (the structures used to put these words together) and Functions (which includes agreeing, inviting, so on and so forth). Logically, each one of these three main categories has different techniques to it for its optimal teaching, and a teacher should and has to structure/plan the lesson...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Zimbabwe Mutare 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 covers the eight basic parts of speech: prepositions/conjunctions, pronouns, nouns, gerunds, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, and articles. In addition, this unit explains why it is important to know how to classify parts of speech into categories. As a native speaker of English, I have never needed to know how to classify parts of speech, so this unit was particularly difficult for me. However, I know that this will be useful for me going forward because students need to know why something is...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Aracatuba 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: Building a lesson based on vocabulary, grammar, and function cane difficult especially with beginners. I've seen students who have never been exposed to English learn about basic vocabulary from teachers and how the students can become distracted or bored easily. I notice that time also plays a very big part in engaging the students. I would see the teacher change the rhythm (have multiple games) just to elicit their attention. I can only imagine how much more difficult it would be to apply...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Zaporizhia Ukraine 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 dives deep into the explanation of the importance of how to pronounce the words in English correctly as this is of most importance because of how many words sound the same but have different meanings. Also it shows you the importance of teaching the students that their handwriting has to be clear and readable, as well as their spelling needs to be correct because of the same reasons being that many words sound the same but are spelled differently.There are four groups for EFL teaching. One...  [Read more]