Learning English From Spanish

Check out tefl tesol about Additional 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: I.K. - Spain said: Problems for learners in Spain‘’There’s never been a language that’s been spoken more as a second language than a first’’ according to english language expert, David Crystal and according to British Council, by 2015 about half the worlds’ population will speak english. spanish people have recently become very enthusiastic about learning english because their employment opportunities depend more and more on a person’s level of english. However, they are facing numerous...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Stella Wisconsin 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 in particular has really made me reflect on the time that I spent learning Spanish in high school. I never really thought how similar verb conjugations in Spanish and English were until reading through this unit. I take it for granted that I know how to conjugate in English without knowing all of the names of the different tenses. My teacher approached this topic by throwing a bunch of conjugation charts and graphs at us without fully explaining the meaning and usage of these words. As long...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about Centre TESOL English 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.A. - U.S.A. said: Foreign language experienceIt’s difficult to say if my first experience with a foreign language actually qualifies as such. I was born into a bilingual home in the united states, with my father speaking primarily english and my mother speaking spanish. She had moved to this country from Mexico only a few years before, so her form of communication was almost exclusively spanish. Since she was the main caretaker while my father worked, it’s likely that I was exposed to as much, if not...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Iuka 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: I can relate many aspects of this lesson to when I was learning Spanish in high school. The vocabulary that was easiest to remember was the words that were most similar to their English counterparts. If a Spanish vocabulary word we learned resembled one we already knew, it was easier to grasp and absorb. When teaching language functions, the 'activate' stage is the most crucial for students. Engaging and studying language functions will enable a student to properly learn the material. But it's not until...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Diploma In 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. R. and A.G. - U.S.A. said: Learning GrammarBeing a language student myself, I know how hard and frustrating learning the grammar of a foreign language can be. I have mastered the spanish language and have now started learning Korean for my future teaching job. I did not learn these languages overnight. It took lots of practice, patience, and diligence. During my learning adventure I realized three important things that helped me to learn the grammar of these foreign languages. First I learned that learning...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Senegal Mbour 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 enjoyed learning about the teaching methodologies that ranged from Grammar-translation through the Lexical approach. The reading of unit 3 helped me recall the teaching methods I encountered for both English and Spanish during my education. I am happy I didn't encounter all of those methods. Reading through the ESA approach of engaging, studying, and activating helped me visualize a class I could run. The clear ESA methodology, with numerous similar yet different techniques, such as...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Columbus Ohio 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 so many grammer auxiliary verbs that can be used to express differing degrees of formality. This lesson helped me to understand that Model verbs doesn't change in forms according to person, they are followed by a verb in it's base form. Also teachers should keep tract of the phrasal verbs that have been taught and try to us them naturakky during uncontrolled conversations/This unit, like all others, was fun to learn about the three stages--engage, study, and activate--and the...  [Read more]