Lindsey English

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Greenfield Illinois 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 provides a detailed explanation on how to effectively teach productive skills. This unit describes the various activities and categorizes them to allow a more efficient use of the activities. Some of these categories include prompting, drilling, model dialogues and discussions. By providing a selection of activities in this unit it gives future teachers a greater selection of activities to work with and can help expand their way of teaching and make it more creative. This unit also...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Evant 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: In response to the last unit, this unit was about the productive skills. The first part was dedicated to speaking and discussed the necessity for the teacher to create a need and a desire for the students to want to take part in the discussions. Activities, controlled when aiming for accuracy, free and creative for fluency growth or guided for both, must encourage the students to speak/interact with each other. In the second part, writing is detailed through the main differences between speaking and...  [Read more]

Teaching one-to-one Teaching English as a foreign language can be done one of two ways: teaching a group of students or by teaching on a one-to-one basis. It’s estimated that up to 40% of TESOL teaching is done one-to-one, however teachers find it increasingly difficult to find relevant material, advice and assistance on the method. Nicola Meldrum argues that teaching one-to-one “unfortunately is not covered much in ELT discussion” and that ‘It is somehow assumed that teaching English as a foreign language means organizing huge groups of students, while the reality is that one to one is a normal and significant part of our teaching lives”. Teachers are in effect left to their own devices; however this doesn’t stop the concept of teaching one-to-one being an effective and...  [Read more]