Malaysian Countryside

  Leslie is a Canadian English teacher at a junior high school in the Japanese countryside. In this TESOL review, Leslie tells us she is looking to open her own English language day care centre at her home and with this in mind she took the 120-hour certificate course with ITTT as well as the 50-hour young learners course to bring her qualifications up to date. Hopefully for Leslie this will be the first step on a rewarding career as the owner of a successful English language school in Japan. 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...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Abbeville Alabama 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 ten concerned the evaluation and testing of students. I learned the importance of reviewing work that has already been done throughout the class, and discussing aims of each lesson to ensure students what they should have been learning in the class. Placement, progress, diagnostic and practice tests are also known tests that are given to students learning a foreign language. A placement test is designed to let teachers place new students into the correct classes. Progress tests are used...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Sibu Malaysia 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: During Unit 10, I studied how different teachers teach different lessons and I was able to consider which way of teaching I think is better. I have learnt that having a positive and energetic teacher can change the overall environment and productivity level in a classroom. If I were is lesson one, I would have felt awkward and embarrassed to give a wrong answer whereas, in lesson two; it was a much calmer and open teaching environment which would have pushed me to have my voice heard.In this unit...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Malaysia Kuching 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 discussed about teaching English to special groups by listing a number of such groups( i.e. beginners, individual students, children, business English to especial group and mono and multilingual groups ) while describing the major problems faced during EFL lessons and techniques to overcome them. I have learned the various ways to adapt teaching method to suit any of these groups. Its not advisable for teachers to use student first language(L1) in class otherwise students...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Ipoh Malaysia 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 section had got to do with a general content with all the units,where by I learned how to teach and got advantages how to teach multilingual classes.It has also to know different techniques about getting individual and young learners. I also realized that teaching busness language doesnt enpilies if the student doesn't speak English at all,but it emplies to those who speak English .This was a good distinction between two different categories, listening, reading, and speaking, writing....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Malaysia Kuantan 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 unit we watched two videos in which the instructor taught an ESA straight arrow lesson. THe first video the teacher as uninterested, did not monitor students, and could not provide clear details to help the students understand the lesson. The students therefore did not want to participate and they did were c0nfused when working on worksheets. In the second video the teacher allowed room for more rapport with the students by being friendly, smiling, and knowing their names. The...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Kuantan Malaysia 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 didn't have clear image about different ways to organize lesson before. The information about ESA method is extremely useful. I understood that being a teacher I used different ESA variations (such as Straight arrow, Boomerang, Patchwork) unconsciously. Examples of different activities applicable for every stage are great. There are few ideas that I didn't use before. I also found correction part being very useful. I never thought about student-student correction. I hope to apply it.This unit...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Malaysia Ipoh 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: Future tenses express future events or future state of being and is categorized based on whether the action will be completed or will be in progress. Future simple (will)+(verb) is used for actions that will occur in future and can be used to make predictions, promises and for facts and uncertainties. E.g I will work. Future continuous (will be)+(present participle) is used for ongoing actions that will occur in the future. E.g I will be working. Future perfect (will have)+(past participle) is used...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Klang Malaysia 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: What are conditionals in English grammar? Sometimes we call them if clauses. They describe the result of something that might happen in the present or future or might have happened but didn't in the past. They are made using different English verb tenses. f you use Reported Speech there are mostly two main differences.The introductory sentence in Reported Speech can be in the Present or in the Past.If the introductory sentences is in the Simple Present, there is no back shift of tenses.the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Malaysia Ipoh 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: It was helpful to understand the role of pronunciation when teaching students. As a native speaker, I never received much training on the pronunciation of words...we simply picked it up as children. As such, it was extremely insightful to be exposed to the International Phonetic Alphabet and to learn how each phoneme is written. Furthermore, I had never given much thought as to how sounds are produced by the mouth. It was extremely interesting and useful to learn about the various manners...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Malaysia Klang 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 module makes you aware of how to teach to different groups, i.e. young learners have a very short attention span, so the lesson must keep their attention and should vary from what was done before - avoid boredom setting in. Keep instructions short, clear and concise. Minimal use of native language, if at all. Vary your pitch and tone... Keep it visual. With adults, expectations are different if you have a group of business English students - different ages, cultures, backgrounds and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Malaysia Taiping 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 unit you will learn about the general theories of learning and development of young learners through maturity. That there are major concepts of learning and behavioral theories which are Constructivist which is the combination of environment and maturity. Maturationists is base on nature (natural behavior) or biological sequence. Environmentalists, behavior and learning is base on environment while Cognitive is base on human intellectual. Also, you will learn about the different...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Malaysia Taiping 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 was about articulation and pronunciation. It also covered the idea of phonology and was super hard. I hate reading phonetic script because I never use it and find it utterly ridiculous to teach to beginning English students. I understand the teachers using this as a concept to incorporate into teaching the students. However, there are many ways to pronounce and articulate English and it is all right and wrong. There are multiple ways to pronounce something. I do not agree with a lot of...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Seremban Malaysia 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 discussed different ways to engage with the textbook. It also briefly outlined advantages and disadvantages of using a textbook in class. There was a good balance in the views presented. I agree that created materials should always be incorporated regardless of how much the textbook is used. If I were a student in a class that strictly followed the textbook and allowed for no outside activities, I would be pretty bored and probably lose interest in the subject pretty quickly.Unit two...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Kuching Malaysia 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 managing classes, I learned that the teacher shouldn't dominate at all times. There are situations whereas students should have more time to speak, be themselves and collaborate with their classmates. Teacher should consider lots of things when trying to manage the class efficiently. And it should always take in consideration students' age group, abilities, nationalities and the like.This unit was useful to me because it has made it clearer for me of how to measure the students...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Klang Malaysia 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 lesson plans are not always a necessarily required part of teaching, although they are highly recommended for new teachers. I always thought lesson plans were the most important part of teaching. I have also learned that they do not need to be scripted, which is something I may struggle with because I always try to script everything due to social anxiety.this unit headed teaching special groups takes a slight shift from the regular teaching method as it...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Taiping Malaysia 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 was definitely more advanced and a lot harder on me than the other units. I never got this far with my actual education of English at the university of Amsterdam. I understand all the content but have been using in my speech naturally. Therefore I've repeated this chapter a couple of times and now felt comfortable doing the test, although I had several doubts at some questions.In this unit we went over how to manage a classroom and all that that may entail. I learned the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Johor Bahru Malaysia 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 talks about the 5 different types of learners. The absolute learner, the false learner, the adult learner, the young learners and the beginner without roman alphabets learners. This unit guides us with the ways , advantages,tips and disadvantages of teaching these types of learners.This unit also gives us different techniques and methodology and a few techniques of teaching these types of learners.This unit also talks about business English and english for a specific purpose.The...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Malaysia Petaling Jaya 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 covered many different topics. it began by talking about case studies and how they can be used in the classroom. It went into detail on the steps the teacher can take with the students to implement them effectively. It also went into problem based learning and games that can be used in the classroom. Many popular games can be adapted to fit with the lesson of the day. It also described the resources available on the internet and the speech act theory. Moreover, it gave...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs George Town Malaysia 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 now know how to gesture well, use eye contact, and use my voice in the correct way. I will now say a student's name after I ask a question. This section has shown me the different group work options I can use along with the pros and cons of each. I need to think about how I'll arrange my classroom using the seating options as a guide. I will use the tricks in this unit to not have my back to the students often. I am thankful for the sections on rapport and what to not do as a teacher.It is...  [Read more]