Pronunciation Problems

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]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Elblag Poland 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 stresses the importance of classroom management and lays out the tools successful teacher will use. Giving examples of what tactics are successful and when to use them and which ones are not. From choosing the lay out of classroom to what main factors are used when assigning seats. This unit also explains the different ways to successfully discipline problem students and identifying possible problems and ensure a healthy learning environment for all learners.Pronunciation involves...  [Read more]

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  Then, we have a set of objectives and aims. Here, the learner objectives relate to what we're hoping the students are going to be able to do by the end of your lesson and quite often, that can be a useful way of writing out what the objectives are. So, we would start the sentence "By the end of the lesson, students should be able to?" and then a list of two, three or four items that we're expecting the students to be able to do by completing this lesson. The learner objectives are different to the teacher aims the teacher aims are what you are expecting from that lesson itself. Now, when you first start teaching, quite a normal aim might be to complete the lesson successfully, to get through the whole thing without having any problems. As time goes on and you become more...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Akishima Japan 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 the past tenses. It talks about the different uses of each tense and gives a few non-specific ways to teach them. It also highlights a few common student errors. I think that it should have talked more about the past tense pronunciation problems, as I find this to be the biggest problem that students have with these tenses. Perhaps that will also be covered in a later unit.I liked this unit because it gives teachers more to think about when trying to decide if they...  [Read more]

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