Kelli Ryan

  In her ITTT TEFL review video Kelly talks about how she found the four week in-class TEFL/TESOL course both challenging and rewarding. She speaks about how the course gave her the opportunity to teach the local students while being observed by qualified trainers who provided valuable feedback after each teaching session. 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. It was a very enlightening unit. It is probably one for the units that I enjoyed most. I...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Palmyra 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: From this lesson, I learned that a proper classroom room management comes with routines and rituals helps students feel more secure. Teachers spend more time teaching and less time getting class started. Students are more easily engaged and less distracted when the class is organized, well structured and this will give them the ample time to concentrate with the school activities. Furthermore, teachers do not have to nag and discipline students as often a simple eye contact will be enough rather...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Sterling 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: Unit 3 teaches me very useful teaching theories, methods and techniques. As important as bear these skills in mind, practice these skills in real teaching process could be more meaningful. Most common of the methods and techniques include Grammar-translation,Audio-lingualism,3P,Task-beased learning,Communicative language teaching,community language learning, the silent way,Suggestoaedia and the lexical approach.It is hard to decide which is the best to use and we should choose one or two mixed to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL McCoole Maryland 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: Teaching productive skills is quite a challenging concept, but is very important. This unit has taught me about ways in which I may teach speaking and writing to learners, as well as what kinds of activities I may use. I have learned that accuracy and fluency are of equal importance and one should never focus more on one or the other. I learned that even though handwriting is important for learners, especially to express themselves, it is not important for them to all have the same handwriting and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Rayville Louisiana 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 went over lessons planning. It supplied examples of lesson planning templates that were both filled out and not filled out. Additionally, it had a template for teacher self-reflection to help the teacher improve. I learned that I will need to try to be flexible and to try to closely pay attention to the interest in the students during each part of the lesson. Some aspects may take longer than expected, and some may be the opposite. I think as an inexperienced teacher, one might be too...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Brazil sertaozinho 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: In Unit 6 I have learned that the system for past tenses are not very different from the present tense and use the same structure for identifying past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous sentences. The past simple tense can have regular or irregular verbs. An example of an irregular verb sentence might be \"Kelly bought her favorite brand shoes.\" The past continuous expresses an action which began before that time and most likely continued after it. \"Bob was...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Class Recommended 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.C. - U.S.A. said: Motivation in the ESL ClassroomWhat is motivation and why is it important in an english as a Second Language Learners (ESL) class? Some would say that without motivation in life, very little would be accomplished. Humans need motivation, whether intrinsic or extrinsic, to accomplish daily activities. Why use all our energy to go to the gym? Perhaps we want to be healthy, thin, meet a partner, relax... There could be many different motivations that get us off that couch. Let’s take a...  [Read more]

Classroom Management The meaning of classroom management is the skill of organizing and managing a class whilst maintaining a friendly relaxed manner and maintaining discipline. I am going to begin by sharing my experiences of being on the receiving end of classroom management and stating what I found effective and what I didn't find effective. I think as a teacher you have to adapt to the level and age of the students you are teaching. When I was in first school I was treated very differently to when I was in high school. During middle school and high school especially, we could analyze and estimate what our limits would be with certain teachers. I found that the teachers who maintained discipline from the beginning had a lot more control over a class as opposed to a teacher who didn't....  [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]

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]

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]