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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Remus 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: Pronunciation is an integral part of the English language, as it often reflects the speaker's intent and the meaning they wish to convey. Intonation patterns are useful for students to learn since it helps to indicate whether the speaker is finished speaking, or whether a response is anticipated or required. Similarly, stress on word syllables help students to learn proper pronunciation and give emphasis to the principal meaning of the message. Learning the International Phonetic Alphabet can give...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Authorised TESOL Diploma 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. J. - Spain said: Why complete a TEFL courseTEFL (Teaching english as a foreign language) I have lived in Spain for 18 years now, and until my son was born, I was forced to speak more spanish than my own native language. I sort of abandoned my english, and it wasn`t until my son started to study english grammar at school that I realized I couldn´t help him. I didn´t know which verb tense was which and when they are used. I couldn`t explain why words were pronounced the way they are. So I decided to do...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Homer 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: I learned how to decide what vocabulary is important and to teach that certain vocabulary through teaching methods like boomerang, straight arrow, or patchwork teaching structures. The most important thing to remember in my opinion is that In the engage phase we are Discussing, scenario building, prompting, question and answer,. While in the study phase it may be good to use information gaps. In the activation phase it is best to use debates, games, role play and story building to drive home vocabulary...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Guangshui 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: R.M. - U.K. said: The English language is one of the most popular spoken language in the world. However, in as much as it has gained popular for yesteryears, it has also brought some divisions amongst her speakers with every speaker claiming superiority and refinement over the other. - take the case of the British and American English. Nevertheless, there is no one standard English as each speaker basically reflects where they come from. This unit thus tackles the role of pronunciation and phonology in ESL...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Companies Credible 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: J.L. - U.S.A. said: Problems for learners in South KoreaCommon Problems for english Learners in South Korea (10). english learners in South Korea face a unique set of problems when learning to speak, write, and listen in english. Educators of Korean learners of english must keep in mind the reoccurring patterns and common mistakes that many Koreans make while they learn english. Since the Korean language is fundamentally different from the english language, Korean learners face problems with phonology,...  [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]

Pronunciation Problems for Chinese Students of English As a global language, English has been popularly taught as the second language in China for quite a few years. Now there are more Chinese people learning English on various purposes, such as applying for a higher paid job, studying and living abroad, or establishing business with western countries. According to my experience of learning and teaching English, it is harder to master English pronunciation than English grammar for Chinese students. Chinese grammar may appear quite simple compared to that of many highly-inflected Western languages (e.g. Russian, Latin, etc.), or even the low-scale verb conjugations, for instance, of English (e.g. "swim, swam, swum") because of the lack of inflections. Even though there are similarities...  [Read more]

  "In terms of the things that are negative about it, we've already said that it doesn't develop speaking but perhaps the biggest negative point about this particular methodology is that it's very unnatural. Ok, so despite the criticisms of this particular method, and particularly the fact that is unnatural, this particular methodology was in use all the way through the 17th, 18th and 19th century and indeed it's still in use today. However, Gouin in the 1880s and Berlitz in the early 1900s decided that this particular methodology was so unnatural that they wanted to come up with something new. The method that they came up with, they called the direct method. You will also sometimes see it as the natural method. What these two people were saying is that if we wish to learn a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Company Inclass 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: J.N. - Uganda said: Problems facing students of different NationalitiesHaving studied from a country where students belong to one nationality but with different local languages, it’s important that I write about the problems facing students of different nationalities because even though my situation is a little different in that we were of the same nationality, but still we spoke different native languages and had varying cultures. Students of different nationalities face the following problems:...  [Read more]

Problems for learners in a Country of your choice: Italy In this paper I will address the issues I face as a teacher from the context of living and working in Italy, as well as the common problems my students encounter while learning and speaking English. I also want to draw attention to the input culture and society has on language, and look at how these factors influence dynamics within the classroom. Of course, it is nearly impossible to view ones self outside your own given cultural perspective, so as a result of this I will also be discussing my own assumptions on how I "imagined" people might act, compared to the reality of the situation. Often I neglect to take into account these differences, simply because I was raised in America, where I am used to a different set of cultural...  [Read more]

British english vs american English With English being recognised as the global language of choice, which one is considered the official language? So just how did American English diverge from British English in the first place? American English roots back to the early colonial days of the late 16th century, were a whole gamut of cultures converged into a single society. In some colonies English wasn’t even a spoken language and in those colonies that did speak English it was quite different from the English we know today. The Elizabethan English of the day consisted of many varieties of regional English dialects. All these different dialects, intermingled with a multitude of cultures formed one big boiling pot, of which over time, a new variant was produced – American English. And...  [Read more]

Foreign Language Experience I come from a country, which is with high cultural values and great diversity. There are different languages spoken and different customs and traditions followed all over India. When I was in school, which was English medium school, we had Marathi and Hindi as our second language, Hindi was introduced from grade 3 and Marathi from grade 4, both these languages have almost similar script but there is a difference in the way we speak the language thus the difference in these two languages. It was easy for me to learn to read and write Hindi. It was very difficult for me to learn Marathi, my struggle worsened as my mother too was not able to help me as being from south of India she had never heard or spoke Marathi .It was compulsory in school to score same amount...  [Read more]