Esl English Speaking

  Globalization and the increasing demand for English speaking professionals all over the world, especially in emerging regions, has brought about a new, steadily growing sector: English as a Second Language (ESL). An ESL teacher is, therefore, an educator who works with English Language Learners (ELLs) whose native language is not English. The goal of the ESL teacher is to help the students reach a certain level of fluency in English, on both a spoken and written level. ESL educators are not to be confused with foreign language teachers. ESL teachers do not share the same native language and are specifically trained to offer explanations and directed teaching methods to non-English speakers. This teaching style is mainly focused on repetition, drills, demonstrations, and...  [Read more]

  Globalization and the increasing demand for English speaking professionals all over the world, especially in emerging regions, has brought about a new, steadily growing sector: English as a Second Language (ESL). An ESL teacher is, therefore, an educator who works with English Language Learners (ELLs) whose native language is not English. The goal of the ESL teacher is to help the students reach a certain level of fluency in English, on both a spoken and written level. ESL educators are not to be confused with foreign language teachers. ESL teachers do not share the same native language and are specifically trained to offer explanations and directed teaching methods to non-English speakers. This teaching style is mainly focused on repetition, drills, demonstrations, and...  [Read more]

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TEFL Lemon began in 2014 as an ESL blog on the WeChat platform in China, quickly becoming the biggest ESL blog on WeChat. TEFL Lemon provided English teachers with ELT articles to read and share, as well as free ESL lesson ideas, ESL games and fun speaking activities which TEFL teachers could use in their classes. English teachers in China could also download free ESL flashcards on a variety of themes. Following their success on the WeChat platform, in 2018, TEFL Lemon decided to build their own website to offer their ESL Flashcard Games for Kids, ESL Warmers, ESL games and speaking activities for teens and adults for free to TEFL teachers around the world. You can visit their website here. Not only do TEFL Lemon offer teachers brilliant ESL games and teaching ideas, but they also have...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Accra 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.E. - Korea said: This unit focuses on two of the main skills - productive skills, in ESL teaching which are speaking and writing. While the speaking skill seeks for fluency, the writing skills tackles accuracy. However, while the writing skills seem to be more guided and controlled by the ESL teacher which takes many aspects of the grammar seriously like correct punctuation, correct use of tenses, just to mention a few, the speaking skill is less controlled nor guided and focuses more on fluency in communication....  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Courses Patna 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: A.S. – New Zealand said: This unit covers the productive language skills of speaking and writing. It's very important to elicit speaking from students, and to understand that some students may find speaking in class to be particularly difficult. Having activities which are interesting to the students, and creating a comfortable, positive class environment are perhaps the two most important techniques relevant to gaining the participation of students. I had not thought of all the inherent challenges writing...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Matlock 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: Productive skills are those skills in which we havve to produce language, those skills are Writing and Speaking.The main goal of most, if not all, ESL students is to acquire language skills that will enable them to communicate effectively. necessary to be able to understand a person speaking to you, but if you cannot respond with a succinct, understandable answer, opinion, comment or question, there is rarely a point to engaging in the interaction to begin with. Whether these interactions are verbal or...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Greensboro 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: In this unit I learned that the two productive skills in English language communication are speaking and writing. The purpose of these two skills is essentially the same- they are both needed in order to effecively communicate in English. In the ESL industry, writing is often seen as a neglected element, but after reading this unit I now know the importance of it in the overall student learning experience. Without proper writing skills (especially in the modern world of electronic communication)...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Niiza 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 what i learn i did more research outside of the unit .the main goal of most if mot all esl students is to acquire language skills that will enable them to communicate effectively. What is communicate however if it is merely one side it is of course necessary to be able to understand a person speaking to you but it you cannot respond with a succinct understandable answer or opinion comment or question there is rarely a point to engaging in the interaction to begin with. Whether these interaction...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Chickasaw 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: This lesson helped me understand the importance of language usage, and structures. Teaching ESL students new language skills with the ESA method seems to be very affective because it is very involved and hands on. Though proper grammar, pronunciation and spelling is important for new leaners, it may be more helpful for students to learn language usage and new language structures in order to better communicate in public settings. Especially when in English speaking countries, word pronunciation and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Belmoor Delaware 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 my opinion, modal auxiliary verbs are not as difficult to learn and share with ESL students. Even active and passive voices are not hard to learn and recognize the difference to successfully speak English. Sentences written in the active voice are easier to understand than sentences written in the passive voice. I noticed that a statement in passive is more polite than a statement in an active voice. But phrasal verbs are very challenging for English learners, especially ESL students. Phrasal verbs...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Kermit West Virginia 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 explains common problems in teaching ESL classes and provides solutions and suggestions. The problems include first lessons, different levels, large classes, use of students' native language, reluctant students and difficulties with listening, etc. I believe that the use of native language at ESL classes will have negative effects on developing thinking in English, which is an essential part of achieving English speaking fluency. Thinking in English will also improve the students'...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Frankford Missouri 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: ESL teachers are responsible for teaching and/or exposing their students to all four elements of language; speaking, writing, reading and listening. Of the four, many students find listening to English the hardest (especially when spoken by a non-ESL teacher). The key focus is to encourage students to identify the context of receptive messages, despite not knowing every word within the sentence. Additionally, only words with meanings that are absolutely necessary to understand the message at hand...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Napier Field 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: Reporting speech is often a difficult task for ESL students because of the constant changing of verb tenses. If spoken directly in the present simple, the phrase is reported in the past simple, whereas if spoken directly in the past simple,the phrase is reported in the past perfect. Another element besides verb tense to remember when speaking indirectly (reporting) is with time expressions. For example,yesterday becomes the day before. Since this topic is very complex, ESL teachers are cautioned...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL West Richland Washington 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 12 covers teaching the productive skills of language: writing and speaking. There are various reasons particular students will not often speak in a class (documented in previous chapters). Speaking is the generally the most prominent indicator of understanding a language, therefore once the lessons desired vocabulary has been absorbed, STT should be maximized through the use of pairings, and group activities. I feel that although the introduction to unit 12 mentions writing is often...  [Read more]