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Check out tefl tesol about Agency Fast 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: L.V. – U.S.A. said: I have personally gained many insights into teaching english through this course. The course allowed me to study the tenses again and gave me tools on how to accurately teach them in class. Personally, I believe the unit on how to produce an exciting class is what I will take from this the most. It is very helpful and supportive to know that this course encourages not speaking the native tongue of your students in class. It has been my experience so far in Africa that all volunteer teachers...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Abu Dhabi 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: E.C. - Italy said: This unit reviewed the different types of teaching methods and the ways that they may be employed in the classroom. Some methods seemed viable, while others, like the silent method, seemed outdated. During my Linguistics education, I learned that language acquisition is near impossible if the student is not listening to and speaking the language. If the student is not in an environment where they are able to hear and speak English, then the teacher plays a crucial role in providing that language...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Cayenne French Guiana 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: From this unit I have learnt many ways of evaluating student's levels and progress. The placement tests are designed to arrange the student to the correct class according to their language ability and let the teacher to gauge the language level of the student. The progress tests should include of all four skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening). The diagnostic tests are given at the start of the course to check what the students already know. And the practice tests are prepared the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL California 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: S.H. – U.S.A. said: In previous foreign language classrooms that I have taught in, we really pushed for the students to be able to speak as much as possible with little teacher talk time. This was done to help the students have as much talk time as possible. Reading of that section in our notes here reinforced that notion of students talk time as an important part of the language learning experience. One thing that I learned was about the different seating positions. I and my co-teachers have used different...  [Read more]

  Our final methodology is accredited to Jeremy Harmer and it's known by the letters ESA. Around 1998, Jeremy Harmer produced a book called "How to teach English" and basically what Harmer did, is a background to this book is to do what we have done today and to work through all of the different methodologies that have come about over the last 300 years. He highlighted for each of those methodologies what was good about it, what was positive and what didn't appear to work and then put all of the positive things into a melting pot and came out with this methodology, which he called ESA. It's a three-stage methodology, where each of the letters represents a particular phase of the lesson. The first one being called the engage phase, the second the study phase and the final one the...  [Read more]

Foreign Language Experience I come from a country, which is with high cultural values and great diversity. There are different languages spoken and different customs and traditions followed all over India. When I was in school, which was English medium school, we had Marathi and Hindi as our second language, Hindi was introduced from grade 3 and Marathi from grade 4, both these languages have almost similar script but there is a difference in the way we speak the language thus the difference in these two languages. It was easy for me to learn to read and write Hindi. It was very difficult for me to learn Marathi, my struggle worsened as my mother too was not able to help me as being from south of India she had never heard or spoke Marathi .It was compulsory in school to score same amount...  [Read more]

Phonetics and TESOL Phonetics, the study of the sounds of human speech, and in particular “Articulatory Phonetics”, are not commonly taught to native speakers of English, let alone learners of English as a second language. However if the learner is serious with their English and wish to progress to an advanced level, learning phonetics, in particular the International Phonetic Alphabet, would be of immense benefit. English spelling is often contradictory, devoid of relation to the pronunciation of a word, and lacking in clear patterns. Patterns that do exist are numerous, with a large number of exceptions, and all of this makes it very difficult for the learner of English as a second language to master pronunciation. The International Phonetic Alphabet puts all of the individual...  [Read more]