Circumstances Pronunciation

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Purcellville Washington 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 introduces phonology, which is the study, science, analysis, and classification of the physical properties of sounds. It expounds upon the areas of stress, intonation, and articulation as well as providing the International Phonetic Alphabet. It is helpful to devote time to pronunciation, stress, and intonation practice during a lesson. Techniques for teaching these areas to students are given, such as using gestures or the board to provide a visual aid. There's no hard rule for...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Nikopol 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: This unit concentrated on creating lesson plans around teaching the productive skills of writing and speaking. It explained the differences between accuracy and fluency activities, making sure to stress the importance of each in different circumstances and gave an example of two ESA lessons. The test for this was a bit confusing because the example in the unit was a straight arrow and there were a lot more Study sections presented in the test example.Teaching pronunciation is an integral part of a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Matsuyama 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 of teaching pronunciation and phonology has covers a huge area related to speaking. Once this topic is opened up in class, the teacher should be ready to deliver the right information. Pronunciation is very tricky in a way that some teachers are of different nationalities and would pronounce words differently. And in my opinion, even with the help of the IPA, it is still hard for most to teach the proper pronunciation especially when intonation and stressing come to play. With...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Boksburg South Africa 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: Teaching pronunciation and phonology is very hard for language learners and very important for teachers to be able to help students in this part of the language. It is often neglected by teachers because teachers themselves lack confidence to teach it methodically and training. Phonology is the study of the physical properties of sounds. Stress, rhythm, intonation, and phonetic alphabet are all important to help students understand the pronunciation of English.As is usually with most things,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Peru Pucallpa 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: Teaching new vocabulary the teacher should take into account its appropriacy, frequency and teachability. Every vocabulary item should be provided with meaning, usage, word grammar and interaction peculiarities, and also spelling and pronunciation. While, introduction of new grammatical structures includes its meaning, usage, forms and patterns, spoken/written forms.The work on new vocabulary or grammatical structures should be divided into three sections: 1)E - the teacher represents new vocabulary...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Patterson Springs 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 unit explores the teaching of pronunciation and phonology through general rules and formulas. Such rules involve intonation, stress points, rhythm patterns and articulation techniques for short. Since as the lesson illustrates, message is carried in intonation, if a student wanted to rehearse asking straight forward questions they might practice repeating questions which follow the \"rise/ fall\" skeleton. Of course when one alters their tone dependends on circumstance but...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Babol Iran 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 helpful for me. I was able to learn how to properly pronounce words using phonetics. It is useful to help describe sound with a consistent formula for all students. I learned new ways to assist students with pronunciation by showing them visual aids. Showing students the ways to make a sound with a picture of how the mouth and jaw should look is fantastic for online ESL learners!There are many classroom teaching aids to take advantage of as a teacher. Certain visual aids are...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Tarragona Spain 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 focuses on pronounciation and phonology. It describes all the vocal organs involved in creating speech. It explains we create various types of sounds by adjusting our vocal organs. I feel that this unit has given me more clarification on the phonetic system. As a native speaker of the english language I never fully understood how it assists in pronounciation.This unit covers the different ways to express future events throw the future tenses that follow a similar format to the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL St. Clairsville Ohio 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: For all of the 13 units so far, I have to say this unit is the most difficult one for me to learn and took me a longer time to finish,to digest than other units. This is the first time I learnt something about English phonology in such a systematic way. A lot of contents I did not know before. As it mentioned in this unit, I do believe pronunciation is one of the most struggling points for both teachers and students to teach and learn, not mentioning even if it has a certain rule as other language...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Bikaner India 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 spoke about the different parts of phonology and pronunciation and how to teach them. It discussed stress, intonation, and articulation. For intonation, it discussed the major intonation patterns in English. For stress, it discussed how words are typically stressed and what parts of a sentence are stressed most commonly. Lastly, for articulation it discussed the IPA phonetic alphabet, places of articulation, and manner of articulation. Each section also discussed useful ways to practice...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs St Johns Canada 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 valuable insight on teaching new language. It focused on teaching vocabulary, grammatical structures, and language functions. It gave nice tips on how to structure lessons using the ESA method. The vocabulary part of the unit went very in-depth about how to teach vocabulary. For example, how easy or difficult certain vocabulary will be will largely depend on a number of factors such as: similarity to students' own language, similarities to English words already known by the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Salem 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.E. - India said: In unit 4 I learned that during English lessons students should be expposed to new language, understand the meaning, it's construction and be able to practice and produce it, and to be able to achieve this effectively the ESA methods are a great tool and will help use reach our goals in class. New language includes new vocabulary, grammar and functions and eventhough, there isn't an established use of wich ESA method we should use to teach each one of them. It is important to understand that the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Cost All TESOL 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.R. - Australia said: Foreign language experience“Parlez vous Anglaise?” Do you speak english? It was the first sentence I mastered when learning french. The second was, “Je ne parlez pas le Francaise.” I don’t speak french. I had the wrong approach. Instead of asking people to speak to me in english, I should have been trying to speak to them in french. I first studied french at high school. We used a translation method. We also used tapes and repeated french phrases which useful for pronunciation. We...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about College Diploma TESOL 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.G. - USA said: Pronunciation Problems for KoreanIn the past few months, I have been researching the Korean language in preparation for my eventual stay in that country, South Korea. There are many scholars who list it as a language isolate, and the language itself has resisted too much influence from China and Japan for about three thousand years. It is Altaic, so it has a few Siberian languages which share commonalities. But for the most part, it differs highly from chinese, which is tonal, and from...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Authorized TESOL Certificate 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. K. - Japan said: Engage, Study, ActivateIn recent times, the devotion to particular methodologies and absolutism in terms of practice and following lesson plans exactly have been challenged by those who prefer flexibility due to the realities of the classroom, personalities of the teachers and the students, as well as learning types and circumstances of the learners. There has been a shift, perhaps, to a more dynamic understanding of teaching to utilize combinations of techniques, methodologies,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Best TESOL Schools 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. M. - U.S.A. said: Learning GrammarThere has been a long-running debate in the ESL language learning community about the role of 'grammar' in the classroom, and even about whether grammar belongs in the classroom at all. This debate roughly parallels a similar one regarding the role of grammar in American english classrooms, and it's instructive to look at this debate, as many of the issues are similar. In American schools, what is called 'prescriptive grammar' was the norm during the 1950's and 1960's....  [Read more]

Peculiarities of the English Language The English language was created in England. Throughout history, this language has spread to many parts of the world. It is used as a link language for International business and diplomacy. According to Madhukar N. Gate, it has taken thousands of words from other languages such as French, Latin, German, Greek and so on. We can even find Sanskrit words in English. For example: Guru and Pundit are two Sanskrit words used in English. English grammar is quite simple, in many languages nouns have grammatical gender which makes some verbs and adjectives change. This doesn’t happen in English. The adjective “big” is used with all nouns such as man, woman, child, book etc, as well as applying to both singular and plural nouns. Counting large numbers in...  [Read more]

Volunteer Teaching As I began my TESOL course in Phuket, I met all types of people wanting to be teachers. Some students needed to work immediately after graduation and others were going on to a college or university to further their academic careers. I was in the position of having to return home and finish other work commitments before I could embark on a teaching career. I soon realized that if I was going to be confident in my new found teaching skills and to have the opportunity to build on what I had learned, I was going to have to do something proactive in the area of teaching English as a second language even though I was not in the position to take a full time teaching position. In pondering my predicament, I realized that I did have an option that would serve me and people...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Lessons TESOL Refresher 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. K. - Japan said: In total, I have learned to rethink purpose and variation in the classroom. As teachers, everything we do must be purposeful because it has an effect on the classroom environment, attitudes and motivation, effective understanding, perceived and/or real fairness, a balance between what skills are presented, how students understand their role and the teacher’s role, and participation. All of this affects learning. So, the teacher’s attitude toward teaching and interacting in the...  [Read more]

Japan can present the traveller with a bewildering combination of culture, manners, beauty, architecture and personalities. Whether one goes to Fuji San - mount Fuji, to admire it’s serene beauty, or one parties all night long in Roppongi - the nightclub district of Tokyo, one is constantly taken aback and presented with the unexpected. At times a shade frustrating, such as when you are on a train so crowded that you go three stops past the one you wanted because you cannot move. Hence, the ‘gaijin’, or foreigner learns to laugh about these things and accepts them as a part of life. A population of one-hundred and twenty seven millions is jammed into a landmass of one-hundred and forty five square miles. Indeed, the population density in the big cities is amazing. The official...  [Read more]