Hannah And Fox

  Hannah took ITTT’s 120-hour online TEFL course without tutor support. In her TEFL review video she gives a brief overview of her experience on the course. During the course she studied classroom management, grammar, lesson planning among other topics. Although she struggled with the final project the feedback she received was good and Hannah highly recommends the course. Are you ready to live and teach abroad? Click here and get started today: https://www.teflcourse.net/?cu=YTDESCRIPTION Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Fox Oregon 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 about teaching new language.When teaching a new lnguage,there are certain things that the teacher should have in mind.Firstly,the students need to be exposed to the language,understand it's meaning,understand how it is constructed and be able to practice and produce it at the right place.Grammer is the main part of any language while vocabulary and functions only add beauty and variety to the language.So when introducing a new language to students,it should have all the grammer...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Fox River Alaska 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 looked at planning lessons more in depth. As a teacher, it important to be organized and have a goal (or sequence - a series of goals) for both yourself and the students. However, it is equally important to be flexible, as things in the classroom won't always go as planned. Sometimes students will really enjoy an activity and you'll want to extend the allotted time given to that particular activity. Other times, an activity may flop. Perhaps the next time you teach that lesson, you will...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Fox River Grove 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: Going through this unit I intentionally took more time to observe the techniques my teachers of Thai language are using and tried to identify it with material in this lesson. I also traveled back in time into times when I studied English language to remembered all mentioned techniques were used by my teachers and to find out that most of scholar books are being structured in ESA lesson model. As a student of foreign languages I see great importance of the teacher being speaking student's native...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Hanna Oklahoma 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 nuts and bolts of English grammar. In our everyday conversations, native English speakers are often unaware of the various parts of speech we are actually using and why. However, an English teacher must have a firm grasp on the elements of grammar. From personal experience, I know how hard it can be to give an adequate answer to a student who wishes to hear a more detailed explanation of why we're implementing the parts of speech we do in a lesson. The content in this unit was an...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Teutopolis 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: Having student motivation for speaking in class is essential. The content mentioned in this lesson is very true. Beginner teachers may mistake students poor participation as a fault of their own. However, a lot of students in the country I teach in are worried about losing face by making a mistake in front of the others. It is important that we understand the cultural differences and the repercussions that follow in the classroom. I really never thought of placing the difference between accuracy and...  [Read more]

  Next, a couple of issues surrounding the use of worksheets and workcards. Firstly, these types of materials can either be bought or they could be made by yourself. Very often many of the book series that we use will have workcards in their teacher resource book. Worksheets and workcards are very useful because they can act as a prompt to introduce an activity or topic. They can also be used for role plays and one of the things you need to be aware of when making worksheets and workcards yourself is that you need to make them durable. So whenever you create a workcard, if you put it on some hard backing and then put it inside some cellophane or covered plastic just to make them durable then those types of workcards and worksheets can last for years. So examples of worksheets and...  [Read more]

  The next thing we should look at is how our consonants are arranged for the top two rows we have P and F at the left side of our chart and G and J at the right side of our chart. They're arranged this way because if we analyze the way we speak we're using the front of our mouth to use these sounds as in ?p? and ?f? and I'm using my lips and my teeth to produce those sounds and as we move to the right on the chart slowly but surely we're making those sounds it towards the back of our mouth. We can use the examples of ?g?. The sound ?g? is produced further back in our mouth than ?p?. The next thing we'll notice about our chart is that some of our symbols are shaded. Notice that none of the symbols in the vowel sections are shaded but only a few are in the consonant section. The...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Portland 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: This lesson talks about future tenses. Almost all of these are used for future predictions, and this is one of the most confusing aspects for students of English. Future simple is used for spontaneous decisions and threats, to name a few. Future continuous is used for actions in progress at a later time, while future perfect is used for actions still in progress at the future point. Future perfect continuous example: \"He will have been driving for two hours by the time he gets to...  [Read more]

  This video is part of our video series on "Evaluation and Testing of Students". In this video, we look at practice and external proficiency tests. Practice tests are usually used for revision purpose before internal and external exams to prepare the students. There are three types of external proficiency tests that English learners can take. Find out which ones in this video. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next. This was very technical unit. So...  [Read more]

  This video is part of our video series on "Evaluation and Testing of Students". In this video, we look at the diagnostic and progress test. A diagnostic test gives the teacher information about the students' current strengths and weaknesses, while a progress test is usually held multiple times during a course covering all the material taught up until that point to check understanding. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next. In this unit, we covered...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Reidsville North Carolina 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: There are several different ways to teach various levels of students. What can be clear to see throughout this section is that there is no perfect way to teach it. However, one element that allows for a great amount of variation throughout is ESA which teaches teachers to go through the structure of Engage, study and Activate. All three of these elements should be included throughout the lesson plan to keep the students engaged. All of the elements involved can be invoked through several...  [Read more]

These terms are commonly used in English language teaching to refer to periods during a lesson where the class is either teacher centred or student centred, as well as the relative importance of each situation. Times during the lesson where the teacher is the only person talking, such as when presenting vocabulary or grammar structures, are often referred to as ‘teacher talking time’. In contrast, sections of the lesson where the students are the ones doing the talking, such as when practising new language they have learnt in the lesson, are often referred to as ‘student talking time’. The relative importance of these two situations is a source of some debate in English language teaching, however, modern methodologies often lean towards more STT, providing this time is spent in a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Hunnewell Kansas 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: Teachers come across several problems while teaching. First lesson is really crucial to establish a good rapport. The teacher can use warmers (hangman, pictionary, memory games, etc) to warm up instead of handling them grammar. In terms of teaching different level, the teacher must prepare various materials based on stronger adn weaker students' knowledge and give them equal attention. Teaching large classes is not easy. The teacher can use worksheets, pairworks, choral repetition, etc in order to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Ute 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: I think that in the classroom phonetics are often overlooked because it not only presents a challenge to the student, but the teacher as well. I took a college-level linguistics class that I struggled with, despite English being my native tongue. With all of this in mind, as a teacher we need to understand the importance of phonetics and vow to teach it in our classrooms. With these types of lessons, a teacher must be increasingly clear and patient with students. Bringing games, models and tongue twisters to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL North Wales Pennsylvania 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 want to practice more with direct speech to report speech examples, I feel that practice is best to perfect that. I would teach it as showing what verbs transform to like will to would rather than saying past simple to past perfect - I would try to use a multiple choice program to give instantaneous feedback for teaching this subject. I did not realize there were five conditionals - zero conditional is irrefutable, first conditional is a real possibility once a condition is met, second...  [Read more]

Situated learning theory has a particular relevance to teacher training. The concept of a Community Of Practice (COP) is important here. It suggests that if a novice enters a COP (school) by interacting with experts and by doing, they will learn in a more effective way than say by listening to lectures about how to teach.  [Read more]

These terms are frequently used in language teaching as a way to distinguish between a person’s first and second language. L1 is used to refer to the student’s first language, while L2 is used in the same way to refer to their second language or the language they are currently learning. These two terms are particularly prevalent in literature related to English language learning as they provide a simple way of defining the two distinctive categories of language.  [Read more]

These terms refer to two basic reading skills that students should practice during an English language course. Skimming refers to the technique used to gain an overall idea of the content of a document or article by quickly looking through it. In contrast, scanning refers to the technique used to find specific pieces of information from within a document or article without having to read the entire text. It is important for students to practice and master these reading techniques as they have many uses in the real world, as well as when taking exams and assessments. Also, simply learning that it is not always necessary to be able to read all the language you are presented with is somewhat of a relief for many students.  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Allensville Kentucky 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 received orientation training for my current position, something that was stressed in our training was the requirement for students to produce either spoken or written output. That should be the goal for each lesson. Both this unit and the previous unit seemed quite familiar to me because the position I hold use similar language for teaching English as TEFL does, such as controlled activities and guided activities. Learning about this in a skills development workshop a few months ago was...  [Read more]