Eliciting Meaning

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Tomsk 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: When teaching English to learners we must keep in mind the 4 things that our students will have to do with there newly acquired skill...be exposed to it, understand it's meaning, understand it's construction and be able to practice and produce it. Using the ESA approach to structuring lessons should help us help our students succeed at each of these tasks and move increasingly greater numbers of words from their receptive vocabulary to their productive vocabularyThis unit gave an overview of...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Guntakul 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: Unit 13 is focused on the sounds and \"music\" we make when we speak any language: phonetics and pronunciation. We looked at intonation and stress and how they can change the meaning of sentences. In this lesson we also learned about how to represent in paper the sounds we make with phonetic script, how each sound uses different areas of the mouth and throat, and how we can change the sounds using different positions of the tongue and lips. The end of the lesson explores some tips to teach...  [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]

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]