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Check out tefl tesol about Colleges Internet 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.K. - U.S.A. said: Problems for Learners inNative japanese speaking students learning to speak english face a plethora of unique difficulties concerning both english grammar and pronunciation. I would like to discuss in brief detail some of the problems japanese students have with english vowels and consonant sounds. I would also like to discuss some of the difficulties japanese students face as a result of the extremely different grammatical structures between their native language and the english...  [Read more]

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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]

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Check out tefl tesol about Cheaper TESOL School 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.R. -Japan said: This is my second year working within the japanese school system as an Assistant Language Teacher of english. I neither had a background in english nor in teaching when I started working in japan, and while working with my students, it became clear that to be effective I would have to try to understand the english learning process from an ESL perspective. For this reason, I have simultaneously worked to improve both my japanese skills and my knowledge of english. Completing this TEFL course...  [Read more]

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