English For Special Purposes

  Our next category in our series of teaching special groups in ESL is English for specific purposes. This video focuses specifically on teaching business English. How is business Enligsh different to general English? Will you be able to teach business English? Find out in this video. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next. As a native speaker, it is indeed an eye opener to know that there are so many classifications for present tense. Some of it is...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Spain Vitoria-Gasteiz 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 19 is about teaching special groups. There is a whole spectrum of the types of groups that you maybe involve them. Through this course I learned five classifications. First classification may be the beginners, second classification is individuals (one to one teaching), around the world like a very large group. Third category is teaching young learners (YL’s). Another category is that of English for specific or special purposes and perhaps the biggest group called...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Eunice New Mexico 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 teaching special groups. Special groups include young students, beginners, individuals, as well as teaching business English. There are different levels of beginners, absolute beginners, false beginners, adult beginners, young beginners and the beginner without roman alphabet. Tips problems and determining motivation were also highlighted. Teaching individual students has many advantages, such as the students being highly motivated and having no mixed language levels. However, there...  [Read more]

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