Columbia University Applied Linguistics

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL New London 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: in this unit i have learnt a lot about the finer points of grammar and okay im hoping youve stopped reading by now because grammar is just a complete waste of time, both learning it and teaching it. i mean i have not learnt anything i wont forget in 5 minutes, just because my brain puts this in the category of \"unimportant shit\". seriously i get the importance of a comma and the use of proper tense but breaking it down to such extent is just creating more problems than it solves. I'm never going...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Woodland District Of Columbia 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 content of this course unit centres on equipment and teaching aids used in the classroom to help the students understand the course content better. There are several useful resources (the board, IWB, OHP, DVDs and CD players, video camera, etc.) that can be applied in the English language classroom, as explained in this unit, and these can help students to grasp the contents of the lesson effectively. The materials and technologies available for use and the ways to use them in order...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Stronghold District Of Columbia 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 covered pronunciation of English words and included linguistic terminology that I remembered from my linguistic classes. It's a shame most language classes don't go into linguistic studies as the way certain people pronounce certain words is an important study in linguistics (such as Japanese people omitting the \"l\" sound and pronouncing them with \"r\" sounds). Understanding and learning about linguistics will help me as an English teacher in a foreign country, as...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Lessons Authorized 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: S. J. – U.S.A. said: This course has been beneficial to me in so many ways. Until this course, I had never taken any type of training courses this in depth before. It has not only equipped me to be able to teach better than I have been but I have also gained a new found confidence and a peace about teaching. I have always enjoyed helping and teaching things to others but because I knew I had not been fully trained, I always felt like an imposter somewhat; however, this course touched on every area I know...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Lamont Oklahoma 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 was a lot of information to digest in this unit of study. It was interesting to review some of the common methods and theories for learning a foreign language. After reviewing these methodologies, I reflected upon my own experiences as an L2 student trying to learn Spanish. Over the years, I have taken short courses in Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, and Ecuador. I have experienced some of the older methods like Audio-lingualism and PPP. My most recent experience was at a private university in...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Leninsk-Kuznetsky Russia 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: What I learned from this unit was what it looks like to put the lesson plans into action, seeing how a teacher gets creative in getting the students to participate instead of simply lecturing. It also showed how each phase of the lesson can flow into each other, as well as how he was able to be firm and kind about moving into the next phase of the lesson. In a way, it also gave me hope in the sense that I know my future lessons can't go as poorly as the first video.This was definitely the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Windsor 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: I was studying linguistics in university, so phonology was part of my major, and I'm very familiar with it. So this chapter is more like a review of my old study. But I do feel the importance of teaching phonetics to students, just as the unit said. I found that the teaching skills for phonology are very practical, I would like to try them out during my class next time! In my experience, most students are very interested in learning IPA, so that they can read new words by themselves. I think it...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Medellin Colombia 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 13 was a mouthful, literally! I've never taken a linguistics course, so many of these concepts were new to me. This section was rather involved, a little intimidating, but added another level to teaching and learning a new language. It changes the way I see the english language--from the concepts, forms of pronunciation, to the diagrams of the mouth, throat, and even the nasal passages. Although this was an intricate unit in terms of concepts, it provided a blueprint for teaching phonology...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Shangzhou 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: A.P. - Colombia said: My Master's degree included many linguistics classes, so this unit was quite familiar to me. Naturally, I'm one of those teachers who focuses heavily on pronunciation in my classes, and I find the students to be delighted to learn the nuances of English pronunciation. It's like a light comes on! Understanding where and how sounds are pronounced is indispensable when helping students articulate sounds that don't occur in their mother tongue. And often it's not difficult to say - just...  [Read more]

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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]

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