English Speakers In China

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs China Pingliang 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 covered how a teacher can instruct students on knowing and practicing common intonations in English and on better understanding how to pronounce English words through utilizing the phonetic alphabet and through diagrams, descriptions, or verbal examples of where and how different sounds are formed. From this unit, the biggest takeaway I had was how word stress can greatly affect the meaning of the sentence as a whole or can determine the tone and purpose behind the sentence. For nonnative...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Yizheng 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: Evaluation and Testing is a very important tool for an instructor to monitor a students progress in the classroom. There are several ways to evaluate students progress which include tutorials, evaluations by the students, and good old tests! There are several tests that make up the journey of the course: placement, progress, diagnostic, and practice. The external tests will not be given by an instructor but by an outside association to make sure the student has learned everything they need to be...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Neyveli 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: This was a difficult lesson because downloading videos can often prove problematic, especially for students living in China. It took me all day to try to download these and I only got the first one. Consequently i can only guess how much better the 2nd video was. I know from experience that a teacher's level of attention, preparedness and rapport with the students can all prove to be invaluable when teaching a second language. You have to establish a level of trust to both ask questions and make...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification China Lengshuijiang 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 topics of modals, passive and active voice, relative clauses and phrasal verbs. These components of the English language are used every day by native English speakers but are difficult to understand for a non-native English speaker because they not as simple to explain. It is important to have a basis of understanding of the verb tenses in English if students are going to be able to incorporate and understand passive and active voice. Also, learning the modals in...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification China Bozhou 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 Unit 2 Parts of Speech, has taught me that there is much context to consider when it comes to the English language. As a native speaker of English, it comes natural to use English grammar in my everyday reality and speech, but myself and other native English speakers never question what we are saying or why we are saying certain words and vocabulary. I was not aware that there were certain sub sections such as transitive and intransitive verbs, the general rules of the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Huaibei 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: this unit is about how to find the best books and how to use them. but any way if you find a good book with good balance of all receptive and productive skills you can't use this book all the time without changes with all students. Because all books are written for general group of students not for specific one. you need just based your lessons on the teacher's book, not to follow this book all the time, because of students' age, level, motivation and native language. so in my lessons i always take...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Xingyi 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: I think it was useful to know the term used to describe different usages of the if sentence and the conditional, such as zero/first/second... I'm not quite sure as to why they are called that, as that is not something we learn as native English speaker, though it could be useful to help students identify the different form of the sentence. I have also gotten a good review on the directed speech and relay of speech.English grammar is consisted of different parts of speech - each part has a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs China Xuchang 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 learned about conditionals and reported speech conventions. The zero conditional expresses general truths while the third conditional expresses situations that might have been but are actually not possible. The conditionals span a range from highly likely to very unlikely from the zero conditional to the third conditional. There are different grammatical forms for each conditional. A mixed conditional may be a combination of elements from two different types of zero, first, second, or...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs China Baotou 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: Until I read this section I did not have a good understanding of the English tenses, and I am a native speaker. After studying the Russian language which doesn't have nearly as many tenses as the English language I can understand how mastering the different English tenses can be a very challenging task, perhaps the most challenging task in the English language. In this section, I learned the four present tenses which I will list below. Present Simple: I work. Do I work here? -- He works. Does he...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Portugal Coimbra 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 a bit confused by question 11 Which of the following statements best describes the teaching situation denoted by the acronym TEFL. Choices 3 & 4 seem to stand out and if I chose no.3. ''Teaching English to native speakers in a non-English speaking country''...does that mean native speakers of English or their own language in that particular non-English speaking country? No. 4 '' Teaching English to non-native speakers in a non-English speaking country''. Well, that would mean...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Qingzhou 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 we looked at modal auxiliary verbs and the passive voice. Modals are, can, could, may, might, shall, should, will, would, must, have to, have got to, need to, needn't and ought. They add meaning to verbs and express idea such as obligation, ability, advice and more. They are also used to express degrees of formality. The passive voice is used when we do not know, we don't find it important or we don't want to say exactly who performed an action. Modals and the passive voice form part...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Nanchang 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: This unit covers the very complicated topic of pronunciation and phonology and how to teach it to students of the English language. It starts off with a part on intonation and gives some techniques for indicating and teaching intonation in sentences. What comes naturally to English native speakers might be very difficult for students of the English language. This unit also gives detailed information on articulation, the phonemic alphabet and the theory behind it. It also gives ideas on when and how...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Shangrao 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: I learned that it's very important to smile and care if your students are learning. In the first video, I saw how the teachers attitude frightened the students and preventing the students from participating. Pair work in the second video allowed the students to feel more comfortable and try because they were not alone. Telling students that something is \"easy\" is a big mistake . Giving clear examples using miming and photo's is also very important. Miming to show action words and giving examples...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about Fastest TESOL Classes 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: R.W. - China said: This course had been very rewarding for me in two ways. First of all, this course has given me a much needed review in grammar and language mechanics. As native speakers, we never really treat english the same way a foreign student would approach it. We speak and write because it feels natural and right to us. Most native speakers don’t consciously identify the words they use as verbs, gerunds, or participles. However, this sort approach to language can cause the speaker/writer to produce...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Company Easy 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: J.N. - Australia said: english as a Global LanguageEnglish holds the top spot in the hierarchy of world languages. That doesn't mean it's spoken by the most people – that gong goes to China – but english is the most influential language in the world, and at present is the only language which can claim to be the global language. My first glimpse of this phenomena came while speaking with an austrian visitor to Australia, and discussing his native language, German. I thought to ask him what language he had...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about College Recognised 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: J.G. - U.S.A. said: Problems that chinese Speakers have when Speaking EnglishAfter reading an article on the common problems that chinese people in general have when speaking and trying to learn english, I’ve made a note of several key areas that I should be aware of when teaching my charges. Namely, pronunciation, verb tenses/ and phrasal verbs. Ah, yes, pronunciation. The butt of jokes about english language learners everywhere and the creator of the infamous “flied lice” jokes. The biggest...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Randolph Iowa 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 very interesting unit I learned that teaching pronunciation is about more than just talking, and that it is often under-taught or lacking in ESL lessons. Intonation is a very important part of English speech, with each tone or stress on a syllable possibly bringing a different meaning to a particular word. As a native speaker from the UK this comes very naturally to me, but as a speaker from Scotland my intonation could be different from another speaker from the north of England and so the...  [Read more]