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  Before looking at the methods or approaches themselves, there are some terms that we need to define. These are the approach, the method or the technique. Basically, these are hierarchical. The approach is an overriding set of principles that a method can actually make use of, whereas the technique are the things that we actually do in the classroom to approach that method. So, these three words are going to appear during the presentation. Again, for each of either the approaches all the methodologies we're going to ask four questions. So be it an approach or a method for each of those things: Where did it come from? What's its background? What does it involve when we're talking about actually in the classroom, in other words techniques? What is positive about it? What appears to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs China Zhuji 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 is able to provide a simple guideline of the role of a teacher and a learner. A teacher should have 9 roles to play in the classroom depending on the age of the learners. The definitions of the teaching roles give the teacher a chance to review their methods and insights to their lessons. It defines a fine line between the differences of an adult learner and a young learner. Their learning is further defined through their English levels.le to provide a simple guideline of the role of a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Miles Texas 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 defined parts of speech and explained the use or uses for each. In addition, it also pointed out common complications that students might face as some parts of speech in English do not have common rules or order regarding their particular application. Where these things may come naturally to a native speaker, it is important to be able to define and explain these issues to learners, if for no other reason than to be able to give them the reassurance that \"this does not make sense.\" That...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Olive Branch Mississippi 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 lesson planning using the ESA method or technique. This unit was particularly hard as i have been reading what i believed to be conflicting information in your own documentation. Different sheets (unit 3 and the current unit) appear to give conflicting information about when to use elicit. I was also confused about what i was using to create the lesson plan as it did not clearly define (at least in my opinion) what was to be use to create the plan. It could also be left open...  [Read more]

The equivalent term to pedagogy, but applied to adults. The term originally coined in the first half of the 1800s has a few variations depending on which part of the world defines it. In the USA and mainly due to the work of Knowles it is defined as the art and science of helping adults learn.  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs South Bend 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 offers a brief review of the different language levels established by ALTE, while explaining how to evaluate the students' level at the start of the course in order to conduct a needs analysis and to define a syllabus that is adapted to these needs. It defines the different syllabus types and the situations in which they should be used. The unit also gives an overview of the different examinations and assessments the students might pass during their course, and how and when they...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Course TESOL Centres 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: B.P. – Korea said: I have gained a number of things from this course: The first has been a revision of many challenging grammatical concepts that I learned in school. They are so easy to forget, and since I am teaching most of them, it is nice to be able to remember the technical reasons for speaking the way we do. This will be very handy in class, when some more challenging questions are asked! The second was learning about the different stages of lesson planning (ESA). This will be very useful in my future...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Frankfort 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: Unit 9 takes us from \"why should we plan lessons?\" to the understanding that planning can be a lifeline in the classroom. Students deserve this kind of planning because it is for their precious education and it is imperative that we, as teachers, continually self-check for success on all accounts. I recall making a frown face in the margin regarding timing because it was a great challenge for me. Falling short of my time frames I realized I had to plan differently whether my activity, or my age...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Rajahmundry 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: Like all the other grammar units, this unit gave me the chance to review the grammar rules and remember the forgotten ones. Moreover, I found out the most common mistakes or possible mistakes that students may make. I will keep those common mistakes in mind and make my lessons more effective by having solutions or creative explanations to those mistakes which my future students will consult me about.It's nice to learn more about the organizational skills needed for being a teacher. I...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Newport Heights 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: This was BY FAR the most difficult Unit to date for me. A perfect example of how I can correctly USE grammar but have no idea at time how to identify by name grammatical structures. I hope I can do this test again if failed. One of the things I had hoped to gain from the videos was examples of how to be an engaging teacher. Grammar can be dry so I want to be the kind of teacher who can appear interested and make things vaguely interesting. Unfortunately, the teachers in the videos often are...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Brazil Sao Carlos 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 discusses evaluation and assessment through testing. It describes the various forms of evaluation, whether it is to place students in compatible level groups at the start of the course, to measure their progress in class, evaluate the topics that the students know, and to prepare students for external examination. The unit goes on to describe the most popular external examinations and what they measure. I was quite surprised to find that this is the shortest unit. There is so little...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Renhuai 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.B. – U.S. said: Unit thirteen is very interesting as it deals with two uncommon subjects, pronunciation and phonology.It deals not only with the theorical aspect of these two notions but also goes far by giving techniques to teach them. Phonology is define as the study, science, analysis, and classification of the physical properties of sounds, when phonetics is define as an area of knowledge that deals with the production of speech sounds by humans. These two terms are often used interchangeably but the term...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Institute Flexible 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: K.S. - U.S.A. said: Cultural Sensitivity in the ClassroomThe learning environment for the student is vitally important, and no less delicate then a multi layered Baklava. The learning environment can make a sudden shift, be it from a student’s mood or a serious electrical problem. However, nothing else can speedily disrupt the learning environment in a classroom as when a teacher is unaware of stepping on the toes of a student’s cultural views. A teacher must therefore be aware of the areas of...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL West Yorkshire 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: J.F. – Canada said: Since the first time I've approached a foreign language, I've always bought a course book and every time my parents hoped the teachers used it, in order to rightly justify the purchase. Anyway I've always thought that without a course book no foreign lesson would ever happened. It's always expected and then gives security to the learners. Then a course book helps the teachers to express their planned lessons. It engages the students, it shows boxes where grammar concepts are summed up to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Brazil Jaragu Do Sul 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 two broad issues: what defines a good teacher and what defines a good learner. From this unit i’ve learnt about the key characteristics of a teacher, for example, he or she should be patient and kind, willing to listen, able to motivate the students, understand them, their weaknesses and tackle them accordingly. Useful was also the info about the roles of the teacher - Manager, tutor, organizer, assessor, facilitator, participant etc. It is crucial to perform these...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Braila Romania 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's aim was to define the various parts of speech of the English language and to demonstrate how each one is used. It has brought much clarity to me regarding the identification of the different types of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, articles, prepositions, infinitives, gerunds and conjunctions. I feel more equipped at empowering future students to attain fluency.Unit 5 covered classroom management. I learned the pros and cons of the different types of class groupings and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Union Grove 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: This unit outlined how we read and listen as individuals. Some of the highlights include; predictive skills, specific information via scanning, general idea via skimming, detailed information, and deduction from context. Teaching reading to non native speakers can be a challenge. AS my of my students get stuck on the vocabulary. Some things I employ in the classroom is annotation of text especially words the students may not know. As they read they are encouraged to circle the words. Then after...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Colonial Village District Of Columbia 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 chapter talks about classroom management which is the behaviour of teachers in the class and towards their students. I t can also be define as the skill of organising and managing the class, jhaving a friendly, relaxed manner and mantaining dicipline. As a good teacher, he or she needs to have eye contact with the students so as to maintain confidence because a teacher who doesnot look their students in class shows sihn of lack of confidence in what he \\ she is saying or...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Aztec New 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: As with unit 11, I have not enjoyed this unit, I feel you use cleverly planned word play and your information prior to the test is entirely vague, I wouldn?t define this as training so much as an attempt to dissuade ones will to try to become a better teacher. So far I have had some nice experiences with ITTT, but I do feel it?s becoming vaguer as the units progress and your questions are designed to create confusion if not designed deliberately so people will fail. It?s not entirely helpful in my...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Matamoros Tamaulipas 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 different uses of future tenses and gives very good ideas on how to teach them. It helped me clear up and understand better the difference between each tense specially the continuous and perfect tenses which I generally forget or confuse. Learning the present simple and present continuous as future tenses was also very helpful if not revealing.This unit covered the topics modal verbs, phrasal verbs, and passive voice. This unit was very helpful because it...  [Read more]