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Check out tefl tesol about Get 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: K.K. - France said: Common problems of learning english as a second language for native french speakers.In light of my current experience, teaching english as a second language at ISAT (Institut Superieure d’Automobile et Transport), in France, I choose to elaborate on the grammatical and phonetic difficulties that the french native speaker experiences throughout his/her learning process. This paper presents the most essential grammatical and phonetic linguistic challenges taken from my teaching experience, concluding...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Sanibel Florida 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 use of conditionals as well as reported speech. Zero through third conditionals as well as mixed conditionals do not seem too difficult to understand if the students pays attention to patterns in the verb forms. The main difficulty would be in being able to explain why and how each form is used. While being able to report speech can be important to learn, I think the lesson was a bit too specific in form with the use of back tracking seeming a bit complex with how it was...  [Read more]