Ryan Linden

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Linden 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: Unit 7 covered the topic of teaching new language, specifically vocabulary, grammar, and functions. The four things students always need in order to learn these elements are: - to be exposed to it, - to understand its meaning, - to understand how it's constructed, and - to be able to practice and produce it. ESA techniques are used to teach new language and specific examples were provided for each of the Engage, Study, and Activate phases. The Straight Arrow approach is used for vocabulary and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Linden North Carolina 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 unit 11 I studied the receptive skills. These are reading and writing. The reasons to carry them out are: for purpose (achieve a particular goal) or entertainment (because it is pleasurable). With both we employ a number of skills such as: prediction, scanning (read or listen for specific information), skimming (we read or listen to get the general idea), reading for detailed information (one listens or reads in a concentrated manner) and deduction from context (deduce the meaning of words,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Linfen 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: K.T. - U.S.A. said: Unit 4 is about course books and lesson materials. Authentic materials are what a native speaker would hear or read-programs, magazines, newspapers, poems, videos among others. Some of the advantages of using authentic materials are they are more interesting and motivating; the students gain confidence when they understand them, and they can be geared to the interests of a particular group of students. Created materials are usually designed by the teacher to supplement materials from a course book....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs China Linfen 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 main takeaways from this unit were the qualities that make a good teacher and the many roles a teacher may undertake during the course of a lesson. I completely agree with the qualities of a good teacher and believe that a good teacher is one that strives to offer the best possible lesson while keeping the students engaged and motivated. Second Language Acquisition research shows that, in a given English classroom, there are countless variables, such as the psychology of the students (i.e....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Linfen China 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 ,ore interesting as it had the real practical concepts and the things we need to learn.It teaches us how to write the lesson plans and how to execute them.A sample Lesson plan was provided,which gave us a live example of how to prepare our lessons.Over all it has helped me and better equipped me to become a good teacher by inculcating the required skills that are needed to become an ESL teacher. Thank you.Visual aids and equipment are a teachers best friend. They really help...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Palmyra Pennsylvania 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 a proper classroom room management comes with routines and rituals helps students feel more secure. Teachers spend more time teaching and less time getting class started. Students are more easily engaged and less distracted when the class is organized, well structured and this will give them the ample time to concentrate with the school activities. Furthermore, teachers do not have to nag and discipline students as often a simple eye contact will be enough rather...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Sterling 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: Unit 3 teaches me very useful teaching theories, methods and techniques. As important as bear these skills in mind, practice these skills in real teaching process could be more meaningful. Most common of the methods and techniques include Grammar-translation,Audio-lingualism,3P,Task-beased learning,Communicative language teaching,community language learning, the silent way,Suggestoaedia and the lexical approach.It is hard to decide which is the best to use and we should choose one or two mixed to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Kendrick Oklahoma 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 unit presents information concerning productive skills teaching. As a rule of thumb, it is quite difficult to teach writing since teachers usually tend to avoid long and completely silent phases at the lessons. However, whriting is of a paramount importance when i comes to developing accuracy, creativity, out-of-box thinking and as a result motivation to learn the language. In terms of communicative approach, speaking is the most important skill to be taught but it seems that writing should come...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Exeter New Hampshire 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 focused on receptive skills, reading and listening. It highlighted the different skills utilized when reading or listening, such as scanning and skimming. It makes sense that these skills will assist new language learners to process and understand in context of reading and listening. I particularly found benefit from the section discussing the problems and solutions relating to teaching receptive skills. It explained how language, pre-teaching, and selection of materials need to be...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Bensville Maryland 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 phonology and pronunciation. I learned how important intonation is in speech to convey meaning. It's interesting to note how sounds can change from their spelling (eg, butter/budder); also how stress of particular words in an utterance affect meaning (eg, \"He didn't mean to kick that dog\" has several possible interpretations depending on stress. Another aspect was the importance of knowing the phonemic alphabet as this is a standard which both a teacher and student can work to....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Veblen South 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: In this unit i learnt about the future tenses, namely: The simple future that refers to a time later than now, and expresses facts or certainty. The future continuous refers to an unfinished action or event that will be in progress at a time later than now. The future continuous is used for quite a few different purposes. The future continuous can be used to project ourselves into the future. The future perfect tense refers to a completed action in the future. The future perfect tense refers to a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Summerville 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: In this chapter, we talked about reading and listening, the receptive skills, which are normal,short but important. The most impressive part in this unit to me is in \"how we read and listen\"part, it mentioned that our minds must not only be able to recognizee and understand the words but also be able to grasp their overall meaning from a pre-existing knowledge of the world. These words make me to think about our teaching style during the class while we are teaching some new contents to the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Bethalto 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: Unit 19 focuses on tailoring your lessons to your class, whether it be a one on one class a group lesson or a business English class. discovering your students/clients motivations, wants and needs out of the lesson and forming a clear lesson plan in order to achieve said goals, gives you as a teacher a good idea of what content needs to be covered and how to form your lesson plans. Always keep your students aims at a high priority when forming lesson plans and keep regular checks on progress and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Padang 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. B. - Lebanon said: This unit provides an overview of different equipment and resources that teachers can use to aid their teaching of lessons. Schools and learning centers all will have different resources, but one might expect to work with electronic aids such as an Interactive white board (IWB), overhead projector (OHP), a computer and various websites found on the internet (such as YouTube), other visual and/or audio aids like DVDs, voice and radio recordings, and CDs. Some more traditional tools can be a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Maysville 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: In this Unit I learned about two basic perceptive skills - reading and listening. These skills are incredibly important for fruitful lesson, because it is an important base of interaction with the entire world at all. This Inut dealt with the reasons and motives of basic receptive skills, its division and categories. Were reviewed the special \"abilities\" of information perception, such as Predictive skills, Scanning, Skimming, as well as the main difficulties, errors, issues of creating interest for...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification China Lianyuan 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 the past tenses. Similar to the present tenses, the past tenses also have the simple, conintuous, perfect and perfect continuous form. I think it's easy to understand the past tenses once you know the present tenses, because they're pretty much the same. For example past continuous uses the auxiliary verb to be, but in the past tense: was/were + verb+ing. So in the present tense 'I am watching tv now', you can now put it in the past tense: 'I was watching tv yesterday'....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Laiwu China 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 4 was smooth and relatively easy to understand. I am familiar with \"Present Tenses\". Although, confusion would occur at times regarding Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous, as each case depending on usage reflects a specific time of happening. Using Present Continuous as Present Tense, or Present Tense indicating Past Tense, can also be puzzling. But in general, contents were less complicated this time.This unit was about managing classes, i.e. the skill(s) needed to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Lianyuan China 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 twelve tenses in English language. Time has three: past, present and future. Each of these has four aspects: simple, simple continuous, perfect and perfect continuous. Each tense has its own meaning for a proper speech usage. Each tense has three forms: confirmative, negative and question. This unit gives examples and explains how and when to apply the present tense. Other tense will be covered in later units.This unit started off talking about Conditionals. I learned that...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification China Laiwu 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 the course of my life, I have heard this sentence when discussing language learning \"The people who learn a language may, but not always, have a firmer grasp of its intricacies than the language's native speakers.\" I believe this sentence to be factual after reviewing this lesson. I did learn about many of these basic grammar concepts when I was in school, but as I grew older I payed less attention because English is my L1. I have friends whose L2 is English and they were able to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Lianyuan China 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: When teaching English, we will need to teach language functions, new vocabulary and grammatical structures. There are ESA methods that are more suitable for teaching language functions than for vocabulary and vice versa. I will need to evaluate my students? needs to decide what kind of ESA lesson will be most effective, and if I will need to repeat the engage or study stages. What is important is to keep in mind of what students will need to learn, which typically include the meaning, uses,...  [Read more]