Predict Pronunciation

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Hangzhou 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: M.P. - Greece said: Unit thirteen discusses pronunciation and phonology. Phonology includes intonation, which is the variation in volume and pitch in sentences that can predict the nature of what they are about to say. Another area is stress, which is the sentence or word?s ?strong part.? Learning how to introduce stress and intonation correctly helps students speak more naturally. Speaking naturally can also include sound joining and linked speech. The International Phonemic Alphabet (IPA) can help students with...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Raleigh North Dakota 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 teaching pronunciation and phonology. It described how words and sentences have stresses within them. It also went into the explanation of patterns such as rise/fall and fall/rise. This can help people predict the meanings and different areas being stress can relay different things. Lastly, it went over the sounds in out language and how letters can end up having things like being linked or dropped. As a native, we do this all the time and this must be confusing for people who...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification California Simi Valley 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 explained the different types of teaching equipment available to teachers and students. There were some items introduced that I was not aware of such as the IWB, and others such as using video to record students for later analysis and discussion that I had not considered. Overall, I think that the content tried to present that it is best to use a wide variety of equipment and tools and effectively tailor them to the needs of your students. Each tool has its strengths....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Sakura Chiba 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 second unit in Business English course \"Teaching and Learning\" helped me to get an overview of how teaching can be done for different groups in various ways, the difficulties faced by the teachers and how teachers can overcome them. It also helped me to know how learning can be made easier for different levels of students, advantages and disadvantages of teaching adults and teaching in groups and individuals. I have also learnt how to enhance L-S-R-W skills and pronunciation in students using...  [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]

  This particular methodology is known as a straight arrow ESA lesson. If every single lesson that we undertook with our students was a straight arrow ESA lesson then it is quite possible that the students would be able to predict what is going to come up next and whilst this is good for the lower level students, then it could potentially become a little bit boring for our higher level students. So what Harmer did in his ideas about ESA, was to generate two other types of ESA lesson that we can use to try and generate a little bit more interest. So, the other two types of ESA lesson that we can follow: The first is known as a boomerang lesson and the second is known as a patchwork lesson and what we're going to do is to have a look at those other types of ESA lesson in a little bit...  [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]