English Teacher Skills

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English is one of the most commonly used second languages across much of the world and it is currently being studied by tens of millions of people from all backgrounds and cultures. How and where they choose to study can vary considerably, but one thing that most English language students have in common is that their studies are led by a tutor known as a TESOL teacher (or something similar such as ESL teacher, TEFL teacher, etc). The role of a TESOL teacher is to slowly build up their student's abilities in the four language skills; reading, writing, speaking, and listening, to enable them to reach their individual study goals, which could be for work, study, travel, or a variety of other reasons. Please note: the acronym TESOL stands for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. ...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification China Rongcheng 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 gives an overview of productive skills—speaking and writing—which are used to communicate. I did not realize until recently (though before reading through this unit) that writing was a skill that is often neglected in comparison to other skills mentioned. This can happen because the teacher might not want to use class time for what is considered a quiet activity, so writing becomes assigned for homework, where it may not get completed. Thus, the skill does not...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Frisco City Alabama 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 ability to use a language is not just a single skill. There are four separate skills areas: reading, listening, speaking and writing. Listening and reading are known as the receptive skils; while speaking and writing are known as the productive skills. When learning new language material, the order of acquisition is generally; listening (the learner hears a new item), speaking (the learner tries to repeat the new item), reading (the learner sees the new item in written form), writing (the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Courses Lahore 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.D. - Australia said: This unit teaches teachers best practices for teaching lessons that utilizes student's receptive skills. Reading and listening are two receptive skills of equal importance, and are two of the four basic skills required to learn any language. These other two are as well, equally important. The unit explains that there are specialist skills required for listening and reading. Each one serves a different purpose. Students interest and motivation in participation depends on the topic and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification China Heyuan 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 focuses on the productive skills (speaking and writing). It later includes games where students can be involved either for competition or cooperation. If a teacher wishes to introduce a communicative activity to students, he/she must bring in a number of reasons why people communicate; they have communicative purpose, they want to say something, they want to listen to something and they are interested in what is being said. Some of the speaking activities in the classroom are;...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Qianjiang 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.W. - U.S.A. said: In this lesson, I leaned a lot about productive skills including Speaking and Writing. In English learning and teaching, students and teachers always pay more attention to Speaking which is generally used in communicating and considered as the most important part. So writing is the most neglected skill. For teachers, it is obvious that the content of an English class can not be covered by four English skills, time is not enough for that.so they will leave part of them they can practice by...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Sittwe Myanmar 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 lesson covers the importance and variety of receptive skills. Both listening and reading are equally important skills and should be taught at an even rate. Engaging the class with examples of real world information such as audio from television or an exert from a book can improve their English skills so long as the class is at the right level and the preparation work is complete.In this unit, I have been learned how to create writing lesson by ESA and what the students need to pay...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Chigasaki 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 talks about the two perceptive skills humans have; reading and listening. It explains that we read and listen for a purpose or for entertainment and that we need several different skills for obtaining exactly what we want. We use different skills for when we want general information or for more detailed information or for when we need to understand the complete context of a specific sentence, e.g. a warning/rule like 'Mind the gap'. It is important that a teacher teaches all these...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Alhambra Indiana 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 productive skills, which are speaking and writing. This unit recognized that most people?teachers and students?commonly consider speaking the ?more important? skill and may therefore devote less time and learning to writing skills. Speaking English may satisfy a more immediate need/desire for more students than writing, and yet it is up to the teacher to foster interest in writing skills and give merit to their value. Lessons that focus on speaking skills should aim to build...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Tottori 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: Productive skills are skills that are both advantageous and challenging to teach. Speaking and writing are manifested tangibly and can be measured and evaluated easily by the teacher. The first stage of both set of skills is accuracy or identifying the correct words, structures and rules to use in order to create a spoken or written output or response. Towards the latter part of learning these skills, language becomes more superfluous and flexible. Teachers must be flexible in teaching accuracy and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Russia Sochi 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 learnt that speaking and writing are productive skills. Both are equally important to communicate effectively. Often, writing skills are not seen as important because teachers view this as \"too much\" quiet time. Teachers need to allow for adequate quiet time in the classroom in order for students to develop this skill. They is a difference between speaking activities: ones which are controlled by the teacher and where accuracy is seen as the most important aim of the activity, for...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Gorakhpur 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: In this lesson,I get a lot of information about Classroom Management,Classroom Management is the skill of organising and managing the class,having a friendly,relaxed manner and maintaining discipline.we can use Eye contact,gesture and the voice?Teachers give kids some rules and let kids listen to orders.And,we also can divide into teams,students working together.And giving kids individual attention.there are a lots of ways we can use for classroom management,it can ensure a higher quality of...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Bergamo Italy 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: Your answer: In this unit we focussed on the productive skills-speaking and writing. There are four types of skills in any language: receptive and productive skills. All of them are equally important and wherever possible we should try to incorporate all of them into our teaching lessons if we want to have a balanced approach. often we focus on one skill but we bring the others to have a more integrated lesson. I learned a lot about the different skills and this helped me to understand them...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Greece Piraeus 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 provides a survey of different techniques and methodologies of teaching. It illustrates that the ESA methos is the best method for new teachers because it incorporates the most effective technquies of a range of methods. ESA means Engage, Study, Activate. First the teacher engages the class, allowing them to warm up and practice their English language skills. The study phase concentrates on correct language use and learning. The activate allows students to pratcice the skills...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Hermosillo 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 covers two of four important basic skill in an language ie. receptive skills - reading and listening who are equally important. it covers the reasons / motivation to read and listen, the skills needed when reading or listening, and the problems I may face while teaching students. It also provides an ESA format to illustrate the integration of these two skills in the classroom.Some non verbal aspects can have great effect on a classroom, like the postitioning of chairs and the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Weare 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: In classroom management, for a class to learn effectively, the teacher must be able to inspire confidence in the students. Teachers must know when to be firm to the students, when to be easy and leave them alone. Being flexible is almost the key factor to be a good teacher in classroom management. Good understanding of students and establishing good rapport coupled with the skill in organising and managing the class would deem as half the battle won. By and large, being mindful of the do's and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Itapetininga Brazil 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 presents a broad spectrum of techniques that can be used in various ESL situations. The different theories/methods gives a bit of background as to how teaching has evolved and how it's not bound to a fixed method, but is rather interconnected and lead to the ESA method. Event hough there are several guidelines/rules towards this teaching method the teacher is still left to fill in gaps to make the method their own. The realistic examples made it easier to understand the different...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs China Qitaihe 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 learnt from this unit that productive skills include speaking and writing. Writing is the most neglected skill in the TEFL world as many teachers do not devote classroom hours to it. Writing tasks are usually relegated to homework, but mostly such tasks are not done and therefore this skill is poorly developed. Writing is more difficult skill in comparison with speaking because it requires a greater degree of accuracy. First of all the teacher must cerate in the students the need and desire...  [Read more]