Teach English Abroad Australia

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Australia Gold Coast 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: As many different people learning the English language as their are in the world, so are the reasons for learning. Young learners usually are brought by parents and although they will pick up the language rather easy their attention span may be less than older students. Young learners need repetition like choral work. They are sometimes learning their own language as well. Students who are older but still do not have a grasp on the English language may also need repetition and a teacher...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Australia Launceston 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 emphasizes the difference between accuracy and fluency based learning, and productive skills. Productive skills are writing and speaking, they are the active practice of a language. This is taught through accuracy and fluency activities. Fluency activities are important to build a students comfort and confidence utilizing the language and are primarily focused on during the activate phase, through games, role play and other speaking exercises. Accuracy based learning where...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Melbourne Australia 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 quite complex, but I think it is a needed unit as an English teacher. I have previously learned about phonemes in one of my literacy courses at university, but I still find it difficult and it takes a lot of concentration and figuring out. Also I have noticed that as a South African English native speaker the pronunciation differs slightly and you may use different phonemes but this does not necessarily mean it is incorrect.From Unit 11 I learned about some of the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Newcastle Australia 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: Speaking and writing is very important to a classroom. Even we can call speak and write if we don't understand what we are speaking and writing it will be useless. So when we speak we need to have the correct pronunciation of our words the same in writing we must know each word's correct spelling because sometimes even we pronounced it very well if we don't know how to spell again it's not so much helpful to the class or to the students.Unit entitled 'Teaching special groups' is very...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Newcastle Australia 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 helped me to get clear with Class planning, as far as I'm willing to make teaching the same useful as entertaining! Now I can have a variety of Engage, Study and Activating activities, which are very helpfull even for teaching different age-groups of students. I feel, that all methologies listed in the beginning of the unit can be helpfull too, just in special cases, which I might come across, as long as groups and personal students I have, differ in interest, characters and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Australia Newcastle 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 6 explores the world of Business English teaching and provides tips and advice on how to get started as a Business English teacher, where to find a job, what questions to ask an employer, how to write a resume etcetera. The unit also lists a number of websites that can be useful rescources for a Business English teacher. Personally, I found this unit very weak. The advice given is patronizing and clearly aimed at a clueless 20-something millenial going overseas for the first time. The...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Australia Brisbane 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 points out effective use of some teaching aids and equipment. Being able to use a wide variety of techniques and equipment help to keep the class fresh and motivated. Students maybe curious as to what new technique will be used to present materials. Also, the importance of knowing how to use the equipment is essential in saving time and student learning. Working in a developing country I have learned the hard way that having a backup plan is critical. It is not uncommon for...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Brisbane Australia 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 covers tests and assessment as part of the teaching process. Testing students English ability is necessary for all English learners because it helps assess their language proficiency and their periodic progress throughout a course. For students hoping to work or study in an English speaking country another important part of testing is practice testing so that they can prepare for external exams which will allow them to do so.The English present tense system, as with the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Canberra Australia 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 provided information on receptive skills and the different ways in which we listen,for instance we may use detailed information in which we will listen very carefully to the information as we may need to concentrate and focus ie someone telling us directions.Another point I took from this unit was that it is very important to pick topics for students that they will be interested in so they will be engaged and motivated to learn.Ways to assess students are by tests, evaluation...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Australia Melbourne 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: Ok, so, well...I have to admit there were a few points I haven't thought of before. Helpful. However, question 18 took me by surprise. I thought all of the listed factors were important. Nr 1: Well, I thought students' personalities – even though they should not rule the seating arrangements – would be good to keep in mind and not seat together 2 students openly disliking each other. Nr 2: That is a no brainer, yes, the amount of space has to be considered. Nr 3: Students' ages....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Adelaide Australia 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 contained a lot of information about managing classes. It talked about everything from how a teacher should act such as eye contact, gesture, and voice. This is important so the students respect the teacher. It also talked about classroom arrangement such as grouping students, and seat arrangements. The unit concluded with how and when teachers or students should talk. This is great in order to have effective communication.As I will probably end up being a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Wollongong Australia 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 insisted on the value of teaching listening and reading skills, as well as the balance to keep between the 4 skills when learning a language. It also gave a vague idea on how to built learners interest through an original and simple lesson plan. Personally, I would have had the students singing the most popular songs of the artists as a karaoke challenge. Carefully selecting the most catchy songs and lyrics that are easy to interpret. Singing is often the first form of expression of...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Australia Wollongong 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 is interesting to approach this content from the perspective of someone who likes to consider himself a successful teacher. Much of the information served as reminders (e.g. that the relationship a teacher has with his/her students is as important—if not more important—than his/her personality or capacity for the material), but some of it was new. For me, the new material was largely in the categorization of language learners—I knew that there were categories, but I...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Australia Townsville 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 one is a very good and important lesson. I have learnt the qualities of a good teacher;a good teacher must be neat and well dressed,a good teacher should be able to motivate and encourage learners,should also have a passion for teaching.A good teacher must not only care about teaching but also making sure the learners understand and assimilate what he or she is teaching. The vital roles of the teacher in a classroom should highly be respected such as;...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Toowoomba Australia 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 really inspire me as a teacher to be always a good communicator as this will really help the student to speak out on what is in their mind and also to be attentive to them just to show them how you care for them to learn new language.It can be difficult for many student especially with English as the second language, you have to make sure that they feel secure around you and will always support them whether its right or wrong.In this unit we learnt conditional and reported...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Tucson Arizona 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 information on grammatical points such as modals, phrasal verbs, and passive voice. The modal auxiliary verbs include: can, could, would, should, may, might, shall, must, ought to, etc. obligation, possibility, probability, permission, ability, and advice. These auxiliaries can change the meaning and formality of a sentence, as when one asks, ?May I use the bathroom,? rather than, ?Can I use the bathroom.? When using the passive voice, the focus is shifted away from the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Gyumri Armenia 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 a basic introduction to the teaching and understanding of pronunciation and phonology. It covered the basics of intonantion and stress, discussing the basic natural sentence patterns and common variations, while still pointing out that these rules are often changed to convey the meaning of the speaker. The unit then went on to discuss some of the most efficient ways to teach intonation and stress to students. Next came an introduction to IPA and how to use it as an effective tool....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Tempe Arizona 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 think unit 16 has been a very important unit in terms of understanding how students feel about conditionals and reported speech. It can become confusing and I think that mainly for that reason it was important to have studied this unit. Completing the tasks, including the lesson planning, have given me a better understanding of how to teach these grammar rules. I'm looking forward to using reported speech teaching ideas in my lessons.I anticipate teaching younger learners in the future,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Armenia Gyumri 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 dealt with pronunciation and phonology. Intonation and stress were discussed in relation to pronunciation. Intonation is the tone over a sentence where stress relates to individual syllables. Intonation is used to make meaning clear. The normal pattern of intonation is rise and fall but to seek an answer, express surprise or show that you are still speaking, your pattern will reverse to a fall/rise pattern. A flat pattern shows the speaker has little interest in continuing the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Arizona Tucson 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 learned about the difficulties for foreigners learning pronunciation of English due to many sounds coming from one spelling, and the same sound having many spellings. Pronunciation is an area where teachers are often reluctant to teach, often because they are quite unsure of the topic themselves. The international phonetic alphabet gets rid of all archaic spelling and gives one symbol for each sound. The pronunciation of these symbols will be the same for all speakers of English. There are many...  [Read more]