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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Stony Point 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: After undergoing this unit, I feel that it has taught me something new that I had never countered in my academic career before ? learning the phonemic scripts and trying to decipher what each of the phonetic scripts are trying to represent. I feel that this unit would be very useful in the future in my career as a teacher, especially the explanation about how to describe to new learners the vibrations of the vocal chords that is used when we speak to produce the sounds that each word requires....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Stony Point New York 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 lesson is about the conditionals and the reported speech. It´s quite of a subject for non native speakers as per the amount of changes there are in the sentence. I personally had a terrible time learning this when I was a teenager as I saw it as a very messy way of changing sentences. The explanation given in the video makes the process very symple, I wish I had it taught like that when I was younger!!!! In reallity it´s all about being careful and paying attention to the changes of verb...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Beaver Brook Delaware 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 gave details of teaching machinery and equipment that bring colour to the classroom and make learning exciting. It went through the whole gamut of machines like computers to boards. The creative use of the simple board was highlighted where by you can stick information on the board for immediate use. The interactive white board was a grand invention in the teaching field as it mimics a huge computer- mounted against the wall. The use of a cellphone in learning was another aspect I...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Oak Brook Indiana 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: The productive skills of language learning are speaking and writing. Writing is often left behind in the dust and sometimes students do not properly develop this skill, it is the most neglected skill in the TEFL world. The difference between speaking and writing is that speaking allows for clarity of miscommunication on the spot and writing does not. For teachers to be successful in teaching productive skills the environment of the classroom must be communicative. These two skills rely heavily on...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Brook Park 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: Unit 11 introduces the four basic skills in any language, which are reading and listening, and speaking and writing. In particular, Unit 11 covers the receptive skills rather than the productive skills. The important questions associated with the receptive skills are why do we listen and read, and how do we listen and read. I remember learning about the \"how\" in my methods classes, the specialist skills being predictive, specific, general, detailed and deductive. I enjoyed the portion of video where...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Forest Brook Glen Delaware 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 a new language entails vocabulary, grammar and functions. In this unit we learned how to execute good lessons to help students learn the language and use it. Selecting the vocabulary that students need to learn depends on many different criteria including: if the word is appropriate to the student, use or frequency of the word, and how teachable the word is. Grammar lessons should teach students how a word is said and written. Language function includes inviting, refusing, agreeing...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Vietnam Buon Ma Thuot 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 has helped me to identify the teaching styles that I would be more likely to embrace. I am very open minded and willing to try new styles of teaching. However, If I have to choose the top 5 most important roles of a teacher those would be, participant, tutor, organizer, assessor and Model. Also, this unit helped me to learn to identify and recognized the qualities of a good learner. Having the desire to learn and the ability to ask questions is key, in my opinion. The desire to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Buon Ma Thuot Vietnam 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: A new language incorporates grammar, vocabulary and language function. An effective teacher knows how to structure a lesson around these elements appropriately. Each element in itself must follow a guideline. For example, the vocabulary taught must be appropriate to the students and the lesson. It must not be too simple nor too advanced. Similarly, the level of grammar taught depends on the level of the students and the nature of the lesson.This course has provided me with relevant,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Vietnam Buon Ma Thuot 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 focuses on PRODUCTIVE SKILLS which includes Speaking and Writing. The techniques of speaking which includes; controlled activity, guided activity and creative communication. This unit also focuses on the guidelines for a free speaking activity. Writing skills also is extensively detailed in this unit as well where students are encouraged to read extensively due to the fact that English language is a phonetic language in terms of writing. I learned via the set guidelines...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Buon Ma Thuot Vietnam 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 review of the different levels of students that we will encounter in the course of our teaching. It also provides general information as well as some specific details regarding the effective techniques in handling students of different levels in their English study. In addition, it also gives helpful pointers in teaching Business English.I really enjoyed this unit because it helped me see several ways to teach grammar, vocabulary, sentence structure and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL South Bound Brook New Jersey 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 review of the past tenses covered formation and usages of the past tenses as well as suggested teaching ideas for teacher activities in classrooms. I appreciated the definition the video teacher gave for Past Perfect tense. He defined it as the \"relating of two past actions\". That made more sense to me that some of the lesson explanations as \"the past in the past.\" Also, I had not considered that the Past Perfect Continuous Tense is not a frequently used tense, but after thought,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Stone Park Indiana 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: The primary focus of Unit 7: ?Teaching New Language? is finding the balance and approach of teaching grammar, vocabulary and functions. The unit addresses vocabulary first and I found the factors for ?how easy or how difficult vocabulary is? very interesting. This would be more important for languages such as Chinese and English which are entirely different as opposed to similar languages such as English and Spanish. The topic of ?Selecting Vocabulary? or appropriacy was also very helpful in the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Story City Iowa 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 lesson covers handling issues in the classroom such as students finishing at different paces, stronger and weaker students, participation reluctance and lack of confidence, larger classes, overuse of their native language, and listening difficulties. What I took out of this lesson was getting stronger/quicker students more engaged by keeping them occupied or having them be group leaders and helpers in the classroom, especially if they're attention-seekers. The other big lesson I took away from...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Brooks Georgia 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: With this unit, I learned the importance that each part of speech has when making a clear and understandable sentence or expressing our ideas openly. Every sentence can be broken down into parts whether it is as simple as subject or object to more detailed as noun, adjetive, verb, adverb, pronoun or conjunction. It is important to understand what each part of speech means/represents because then we can correctly speak and write the language. This unit's chapter alongside with the unit's video also...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Brooks 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: In this lesson I learned about the receptive language skills. Those skills are reading and listening. I learned how to best go about teaching those skills. I learned that I can use scaffolding techniques, like pre-teaching problematic vocabulary, to allow the students to read the materials. However, I learned that I should not go overboard and teach them every single word in the passage. It is important for the students to be able to learn to read without needing full understanding of every word. I...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Brooks Maine 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: As a teacher, especially the one whose teaches different kinds of students, it?s normal that we will meet people who have different ages, backgrounds and nationalities and so on. Not like teaching in a high school or college, our students? class attendance will be from 1 to many. It?s always good to learn about basic theory to study more about how to deal with various class situations. Common knowledge offers teachers, especially new ones the skills and mental preparation to get ready for the real class....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Brooks Oregon 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 Pronunciation & Phonology was the most surprising unit so far. It might be because I have never used intonation, stress or phonetic script when I learned other languages (I speak four languages) or when I was teaching. Neither am I aware of any teacher at my school who used it in class, and I lived and worked in China for years. There they use pinyin (which is basically just the normal alphabet) to teach the sounds of Chinese characters. In general, our students simply picked up intonation...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Crested Butte Colorado 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 four basic skills in any language: receptive skills that are reading and listening, productive skills that are writing and speaking. All are equally important. Reading and listening basically can be either for a purpose or for entertainment. Some special skills are needed for reading and listening, and understanding of the context will depend on readers and listeners' expertise in these areas: predictive skills, scanning, skimming, detailed information, deduction from context....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Menan Idaho 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 realized that teaching is an art and even a science. To be successful, teachers should use special methods and techniques. By the known methods, ESA seems to be the most suitable for all levels. ESA combines the advantages of all other teaching methods. ESA has three main phases ?Engage?, ?Study? and ?Activate?. Engage phase helps the teacher to motivate his students, create an \"english atmosphere\" and arouses interest for the lesson. During the study phase, students are exposed to the language, they...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Steele Creek 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: Unit 10 focused on two real world examples of teaching in action. In the first, the teacher scowled and didn't promote the best learning environment. As a result the students were intimidated and did not participate. In the second example, the teacher greeted the students with a great, big smile and had a warmer disposition with a more engaging ESA structured lesson. This unit helped me visualize how having a positive attitude and an engaging lesson structure can cause the students to be much more...  [Read more]