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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Stamford Vermont 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: Differences between the English language and the student's native language can make learning productive skills more challenging. Accuracy and fluency are equally important, but the teacher ought to know when to focus activities on accuracy and when to focus on fluency. Preparing stimulating games and interesting topics can be helpful in encouraging students to improve their productive skills. Factors such as cultural issues, lack of confidence and fear of making mistakes can discourage students from...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Stamford Texas 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: While the difficulty level of the course increased as we analyze the different teaching methods; envisioning which games to play, and the different kinds of problems students will encounter, from someone who never taught a class before seems a bit abstract. But of necessity, your engaging us, insisting on our use of imagination, and research capabilities just to answer your test questions introduces us well into the typical problem solving scenarios that teachers likely will encounter. And since a good...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Stafford 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: Unit 12 discusses teaching productive skills: speaking and writing. When considering teaching speaking skills, the instructor must pay attention to accuracy and fluency and in which phase of the lesson each should be focused on; accuracy should be more so focused on in the study phase, while fluency should be focused on in the activate phase. And in teaching writing skills, the instructor should discuss the importance of handwriting, spelling, and punctuation. I have thought of two more games that...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Stamford Connecticut 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 very helpful in being able to compare an effective class with a not so effective one, as well as observing a class in a video versus reading about it. There are lots of small changes a teacher can do that may not be very noticeable to students, but after learning about ESA and good qualities of a teacher, it is clear how these changes make a big difference. The students in the second video were much more engaged, willing to participate and the atmosphere was much more inviting...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Connecticut Stamford 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 is all about the International alphabet (IPA) and what it consists of, vowels, consonants and dipthongs. There place and manner of articulation and brief summaries of how they are made in the vocal tract. This unit talks about stressing words and where the stress falls. There is only one primary stress in a word, and a word needs stress for it to be considered a word. I like that this is being introduced; however, as a speech-language pathology graduate, I see that there needs to be...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Stamford 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 crystallises the two productive aspect of language learning: speaking and writing. In most adult english classes, they are taught side by side. However, when people acquire english as a first language, they are often exposed to a couple of years of daily verbal communication before actually starting to read or write. Thus, there is already a basis for writing because spoken language has been mastered to an extent. I have learnt methods for eliciting speech and writing in a class in a way...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Connecticut Stamford 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: Throughout this unit, I was taught how important the four basic skills of any language are (reading, listening, speaking and writing). However this unit was more focused on the receptive skills which are reading and listening. I was taught the motives to read or listen. The different types of reading and listening which are scanning, skimming, specific information, detailed information, deduction from content and lastly predictive skills. I was also taught how to use this knowledge...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Stamford Connecticut 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 two videos shown in this lesson were very helpful because it was clear on which lesson was more affective and overall, how a good structured lesson can be very successful. It was very interesting to see how the students respond differently depending on the teacher and how the teacher approaches each student. It was easy to see the impact of the teacher's smile in the second lesson set the tone of the second.This unit consisted of an overview of modals, phrasal verbs, and the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Mendota Minnesota 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 a lot of information on three separate points of grammar. It first discussed modal auxiliary verbs and provided ideas on how to teach these and have students practice them. Then it explained the difference between passive and active voice. Lastly the unit gave information about phrasal verbs. I would have preferred this unit to be split up into separate grammar units. That way you could have gone into depth a little bit more on each topic. I would have found this more interesting than...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Glenn Dale 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 explores coursebooks and less materials. A teacher must carefully consider what materials to use in the classroom. Will they use a coursebook? Will they create their own materials? Will they use authentic or created materials? Will they use some of all of these tools? The answers depend on what resources the teacher has available to them. Coursebooks need to be supplemented with materials that are tailored to the needs of the students. Some useful materials include flashcards,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Halfmoon 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: English is a beautiful language and very inspiring when proper grammar, vocabulary and syntax are used. One can create thoughtful erudite works of art in prose and poetry without sounding stilted or pompous. The rules of grammar can be confusing to a non-English speaker who mustn't be overwhelmed and made to feel inferior as a result of simple improper usage of the English language. The language usage in the classroom can be gently modeled by examples of proper usage in song or poetry or classroom...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Lily 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: This unit was helpful. In it, many things were covered. The first thing that was covered was Modal Auxiliary Verbs. The second thing that was covered were the differences between active and passive voice, and how to appropriately use both. The third thing that was covered was what a clause was, and the three different kinds of clauses (independent, dependent, and relative). Lastly, we learned about phrasal verbs, which are unbelievably exciting. I don't know about anyone else who has taken this...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Smelser Wisconsin 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 productive skills - speaking and writing. It helped distinguish which activities are best suited to teach students accuracy and fluency in their speaking and writing and also taught me that accuracy activities are meant to help students work on speaking correctly while fluency activities are meant to encourage students to use the language in a creative way without focusing on accuracy and more on how real communication flows. I learned that accuracy activities are best suited for...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Whitestown Wisconsin 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 materials that teachers use in the classroom. We use a wide variety of teaching materials, from chalk, the whiteboard, worksheets, video and cassette players, all the way to the coursebook. The coursebook seems to be the trickiest of all the materials. It can really help beginner teachers like me format a course and save us a lot of time in lesson planning, since the framework is already made and oftentimes the worksheets come in an accompanying student workbook....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Forest Park 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: Lesson planning is the most important thing before physically going and taking the class, especially when you are inexperienced teacher. It's the vital part to know about the level of the language of the students, their previous lessons taught, the lessons they are going to study now and most importantly the contents that you are going to teach in the class. Keeping in mind the anticipated problems that the students might face and especially the problems and situations that a teacher have to face...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Pennfield 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: Reading and listening is not just about eyes and ears but also heavily relies on pre-existent knowledge. Reading will present fewer problems for students than listening as they will be able to read it over and over again and maybe finally deduce the language. However, with listening the students may only hear the sentence once or twice so their ability to scan,skim, and deduce information from context will have to be more advanced. Two ways to approach difficult language in an activity are;...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Roxobel 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: There are many teaching aids and equipment. Once you have choosen the one you want to use, you have to be aware that there are advantages and disadvantages. The \"old\" board is the simplest to use of them but it's difficult to keep high the attention of the students. Technological teaching aids are more compliacted to use for a teacher and they can not work always but they are really attractive for the students. There are also different online resources that students can find intresting but...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs maicao Colombia 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 was a rather brief unit with short text, it covered trouble shooting in the classroom. The unit spent some time in addressing what needs to be done in an initial class that helps prepare what needs to be done later on such as leveling, building rapport and doing needs analysis. These activities build a relationship and map a course for class learning. The chapter also presented some nuts and bolts activities for solving the problems presented i.e. multi-level classes, large classes, students...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Colombia Maicao 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 reminds me how I learned languages. I do speak four languages; Korean, English, Chinese and Spanish. When I learned Chinese in China, I focused on the grammar, vocabulary and the usage of them, because Chinese grammar is completely different my native language,Korean, It took a long time to get used to use new language structure. Moreover, I could guess Chinese words based on Korean words, so I was hard and fun at the same time to learn Chinese grammar and vocabs. Since I'm living in the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Lincoln Missouri 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: Before this unit I never really thought about having to choose which vocabulary words to teach and why some are a better option over others. This unit discussed the importance vocabulary as well as structure. The ESA method discussed the possible ways and formats that can be used to teach students new words and word structures. Language function was not something I had often thought of before and this lesson has provided me with ways in which I can teach my students effectively. This unit reminded me...  [Read more]