Eliciting Response

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Kazakhstan Aktobe 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 are numerous tools one can use to aid in teaching students in the classroom. Because there are so many items one can get overwhelmed with what to use, therefore the key lies in being able to utilize the right tool at the appropriate time. For example, using an overhead projector for fill in the blank exercises or reading prompts can aid in student participation in the lesson by eliciting response. As technology advances, the amount of teaching aid one can access also increases but...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL New Era Michigan 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 explains the importance of teaching pronunciation and phonology, as well as practical ways to cover the topic in the classroom. Intonation is the variation of volume and pitch in a sentence, which can be crucial to eliciting a response or expressing emotion. I especially liked the idea of demonstrating how much information can be conveyed with intonation by having students say nonsense words or humming. Stress and rhythm refer to how we pronounce individual words. Less important words are...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Wuxue 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: Before teaching, I should bear in mind what students should know about both vocabulary and grammatical structure. There are many activities I can use in different phases of the class. For example, I can use crosswords, gap fills, word searches in the study phase, I can use communication games and debate in the activate phase, which can help students comprehend more about the language and improve the class efficiency.A teacher's verbal and non verbal communication are crucial in managing a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Tengzhou 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: C.P. - Korea said: This unit on lesson planning gave the reasons why we plan, how to go about planning, what should be in the actual plan, and provided sample plans to follow. At its most basic, a plan should include general information about the class (class level, room number, number of students) and what should happen during the lesson. I learned that teachers should plan to create a logical sequence to the lesson, as a working document, for record keeping purposes, and as a way to give anyone covering your...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Russia Kursk 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 has been the most difficult one so far, but also the most interesting and helpful. There are so many examples to be used in the classroom and so much information that's useful for how a classroom should run. The emphasis on student-centered learning was especially necessary and informative. High Teacher Talking Time and teacher-led activities tend to be the easiest default, but are actually the most harmful things an ESL teacher could do. Having this lesson drilled into a trainee or new...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Pingxiang 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: By focusing on classroom management, this unit gave me ideas about eye contact, the role of the teacher in facilitating learning, the value of student interaction and how classroom arrangement can impact on learning effectiveness.I found out that 'Do you understand' is not a good way of eliciting good responses. I would have liked to know about the role of culture in classroom arrangement in a multicultural classroom.Learning about all these teaching methods is just eye-opening. It is...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Aomori Japan 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 have learned about past simple (i.e., I worked), past continuous (i.e. I was working when the doorbell rang), past perfect (i.e., after he had hit the ball, he jumped for joy), and past perfect continuous (i.e., they had been living near the volcano for decades). I see the differences for the \"continuous\" past tenses as having a verb + ING, and past perfect continuous also has \"had been.\" Past perfect tense uses had + the past participle, where as past simple uses only the past...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Lagrange Maine 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 covers productive skills, which are speaking and writing. Compared to receptive skills, productive skills are more active in that they seem to require more practical activities for their utilisation and improvement. Emphasising the difference between fluency and accuracy is meaningful for me because I have to strike the balance between them with my students. It is good to know that there are different activities that can be used to focus on either or both at the same time. Both units,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Datong 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: In this unit, I learnt a lot about how the teaching has to consider the background, level and personality of a student and how classroom dynamics, while based on the different type of students, can be controlled by the teacher and his or her role (whether to promote as much student to student talk time as possible and balancing that with an intimate approach where opinion and discussion is free.) It is very interesting to look at gestures and voice can establish control for the teacher (especially...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs St Catharines 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: My reflection on this unit will be harsh so fair warning. This is ridicules!!! I have taught in language schools and now in an international school. I have NEVER needed this much information to teach pronunciation! This is for a speech therapist! I know because my best friend is a speech pathologist. I repeat, this was ridicules and I don't care what my score is on this test. I didn't even put an effort in for the last 3 questions. WAIST of my time!! Concentrate on teaching people how...  [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]

Large Class Size Findings in many of the past studies do indeed suggest that small-sized classes are indeed more effective that larger classes. The benefits of smaller classes are endless, but what about those instructors that have no choice in the matter? Many scholars have come up with strategies in order to help those that are presented with the larger class and want to make it a success. Along these lines, many feel that it isn’t always the size of the class, it is the quality. Students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have expressed their opinion that the instructor has more of an impact on the quality of the class than the size itself (oic.id.ucsb.edu/). And in order to make the classroom a quality learning environment, many individuals, including those at Penn...  [Read more]

Building Confidence in Students Education is certainly the birthright of all people. The motivation of every nation should be to generate literate, well-educated and intelligent residents who are able to add to the proper progress and progress of the whole society. There is still mystery on how accurately a foreign language is learnt. On the subject of building confidence there are yet more theories which are even more difficult to confirm. I myself do not trust that confidence is built using one magic activity, but rather it is continuously acquired all over the learning process. That’s why, all the theories I pick to focus on three things Grammar, Drilling, and of course the role of the teacher. All of these will prepare the student for circumstances they might meet later. [1] After...  [Read more]