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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Japan Toda 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: When I just started teaching I often conducted impromptu lessons and the fact that they were pretty good and the students were generally happy made me debate against lesson planning even more. However, after 5-6 lessons with the same group, especially when you have more than 3-4 groups of students at about the same level, I had to realise how important lesson planning actually is. The fact is, without it I started to forget what I taught to which group, which examples I brought up etc. Also,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Accreditation Onsite 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: A.J. – Japan said: I have worked as an english teacher for 5 years now in Japan. When I began my position I had no qualification for teaching english as a second language other than the fact that I spoke english. My position was to teach oral communication but I soon found it necessary to be looking up the names of certain tenses and the usages of certain structures. This course has deepened my understanding of the tenses and grammar structures of the english language. It has especially helped me to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Iruma 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 final unit was on troubleshooting, tips to approach individual situations. The unit covered topics like first lessons, warmers, different levels, large classes, native language use, reluctant students, and difficulties with listening text. Out of all of these the most important for me is native language use. I am currently working in Japan and I have trouble with native language use every day that I work. How can I build rapport with students when we don't speak the same language, how can...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Rio Claro 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: Reading and listening: The 2 Receptive skills. The focus of both accuracy and fluency. Different types of activities for different phases of the ESA lessons. Especially useful part was the bit where the unit talked about SPEAKING skills and presented a sample ESA lesson plan. Here in Japan, where I teach English training to this day, has been heavily focused on developing writing skills. So many of my students are good writers, but they don't do so well in speaking. Not only for cultural reasons,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Higashimurayama Japan 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 two productive skills are speaking and writing. Our li is all about communication, so, teaching how to speak is very important. A teacher should use different methods to get students to talk and use the new grammar and language, for instance, pair-work and group work, lots of communicative exercises, dialogues, story-building, controlled and guided activities to encourage students to talk.I learnt the different methods, techniques and theories to planning and conducting a class....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification United States Irvine 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 reviewed the teaching of the productive language skills: speaking and writing. I learned that teaching writing can be very difficult, especially in cultures where the prevailing language is not written with Roman characters. Since I live in Japan and expect to teach English here, there's a handful of challenges I will have to face. Teaching speaking skills, specifically punctuation, will also be difficult because their language is much more phonetic than ours. However, this...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification 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: Evaluation and testing is a sensitive topic amongst teachers, which is alluded to as well in this unit. But the fact is, that you normally have to present a certain number of testresults at the end of a course. What I missed to some point in this unit is that it helps yourself as a teacher and your students as well if you think carefully beforehand about the goals of a topic you want to evaluate. For and after a diagnostic test, it helps to get already an overview of what the goal will be...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Toda 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, Teaching pronunciation and phonology, provides general guidelines to the teaching of applied phonetics of the English language. The unit summarizes a variety of approaches for the teaching of intonation and stress, and the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet. The section on speech articulation illustrates the complexity of speech production and how speech organs and places of articulation can best be exploited to result in an exact pronunciation of the English language. I learned from...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Japan Funabashi 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 the biggest lesson I learned from this section was the fact that these parts of speech can allow English speakers to be well spoken and clear in conveying what they want to say. I was able to understand clearly what each parts of speech purpose in a sentence. I also have a better understanding in adjectives and how there is a rule to describe things. It goes from size,age,color,material,then noun. Even after speaking English for over a decade, I was still able to grasp something...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Niihama 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 of pronunciation and phonology.Under phonology it looks at intonation and makes it clear that the normal pattern for intonation in a statement is the rise/fall pattern. it goes further to look at the techniques for indicating and teaching intonation and mention points like:nonsense words, gesture, humming and singing and the board.It also looks at stress and the rules for stressing words.Not leaving out the techniques for indicating and teaching stress. Much more, it treats the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Takarazuka Japan 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: course books are one way to plan the teacher's lesson as he/she is going to think deeply of the students and their levels and interest around which he/she can design their topics. Course books are important to both students and teachers. The latter will be more organized and will know what they are doing and the former will know what they are doing and won't be lost by having such material.Testing is a highly controversial topic. It is perceived differently from one country to the next....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Kushiro Japan 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: A good resource unit with plenty of information on the topic. I don?t know whether it?s a fact but I?ve always believed that it takes a special kind of person to teach children (younger than, say, 12). In addition to delivering fun-filled and entertaining classes, such teachers surely need abundant patience, a quality I don?t have. I believe I would be best suited to teaching adults.I have learnt speaking and writing is equally important though one deals with accuracy and the other deals...  [Read more]

Tokyo is the venue for the TESOL course in Japan. An incredible city on the edge of the Orient, Tokyo is the last great metropolis before the Pacific Ocean, and is perhaps one of the world's most fascinating cities. Take a step back from the big city bustle and the frenetic main roads and you'll find yourself in a world of tranquil backstreets, where wooden houses are fronted by neatly clipped bonsai trees; wander beyond the high-tech department stores, and you'll find ancient temples and shrines. In this city of 24-hour shops and vending machines, a festival is held virtually every day of the year, with the locals regularly visiting their local shrine or temple and scrupulously observing the passing seasons. At the centre of it all is the mysterious green void of the Imperial Palace, home...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Hachinohe 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 deals with teaching pronunciation which is a vital aspect of language learning. For me, this has been the second most useful unit of the course so far (the first one being unit 3 about teaching techniques). The point is that most of my pronunciation learning took place through practice rather than learning theory. In fact, when I got my degree as a Spanish-English translator, Phonetics was a hard nut to crack because it was so full of rules and exceptions that you ended up doubting about...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Easy TESOL Program 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: K.B. - Japan said: Problems for learners in JapanIn Japan, there are some issues students face regarding learning english. Teaching here since 2000, I have seen many of these problems in the classroom, not to mention in my everyday interactions in english outside the classroom here in Japan. One problem that would become apparent to an EFL teacher in Japan is pronunciation. The japanese language consists of only five vowel sounds, a (“ah” as in “father”), i (“ee” as in “meet”), u (“oo” as in...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Kamakura Japan 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 previous units dealt with ESL education issues and techniques for the entire student body. This unit fines tunes the approach based on various classes the entire student population is divided into. The classes are the Beginners, the Individual learners, Young Learners, learners of Business English, and Monolingual/Multilingual. The topics discussed were initial reasons for enrolling, continuing motivation level, interests, discipline issues, psychological factors of the classes of students.This...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Ranchi 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: P.M. - Canada said: I have not gotten the results yet as I write this of course, but I expect to do very well. I have taught in Japan for many years and tense explanations was one of the most frequent requests or my adult students. Using 'English Grammar in Use,' I've gone over these structures and usages many, many times. I think it is tempting to make patent observations like 'English has a total of twelve tenses, while many Asian languages only have one.' These sorts of generalizations are highly misleading on the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Toyokawa 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: These videos were very interesting. They are almost extreme opposites in terms of their effectiveness. I would like to say I have never encountered another teacher who had an attitude like the one shown in the first video, but I have both been taught by teachers like that and worked with teachers like that in my past. I think the second lesson does a great job of showing the proper attitude to have when conducting a class. I especially like how at the end when some students used real animals...  [Read more]