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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Ranson West Virginia 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 would agree that authentic materials are more engaging as they are real life connection for students. However, teacher resources such as previously created materials that are adapted are very helpful. I agree that course books can provide good foundation for a teacher but rather omitting, replacing, supplementing, or adapting lends to better classroom outcomes (because each class/group of students is different). Created materials in an ESL classroom than they look like in my science classroom....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Kyiv 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: G.A. - Panama said: I have learn that when two or three people are communicating with each other, we are sure that they are doing so for one of this reasons: They have some communicative purpose. They want to say something They want to listen to something They are interested to what is being said So if a teacher whishes to introduce a communicative activity to students, he/she should bring in a number of the above factors. The teacher must create the desire in the students, to communicate. If this factors are not...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Giza 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: S. L. - Vietnam said: This unit discusses course books and teaching materials. It focuses mainly on the advantages and disadvantages of course books but also includes suggestions for including authentic materials and creating materials for classes such as flashcards, role-plays, crosswords, word searches, etc., as well as hold a discussion about pictures cut out of a magazine or newspaper (which I thought was quite a good idea). Some of the main advantages for having a course book are that it gives students and teachers...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Bonn 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: J.T. – U.S.A. said: In my opinion, the second video was interesting. First of all, I had the opportunity to distinguish between two different learning environments. In the second video, the instructor had an effective lesson by beginning with a positive and uplifting attitude while smiling at the students. Certainly, I think smiling is very important. Of course, the engage phase must be interesting as well and be effective in capturing the students' interest. Connecting the vocabulary with the grammar concept...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Wuxi 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: N.C. - Ecuador said: Teaching new language is simply exposing students to it, get them to understand it?s meaning, understand how it is constructed and being able to practice and produce it. Grammar is the tree-trunk and branches of a language on which the leaves of vocabulary and functions add beauty and variety. Vocabulary?s difficulties or ease depend on how similar the English is to their own language, to known words, spelling, pronunciation and appropriacy factors. The criteria of selecting vocabulary are the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Dali 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: R.D. - Spain said: Yikes, this was a long unit. Or perhaps it just seemed long because so much of the material was new to me. The unit covered common intonation and stress patterns in English and how to teach them, as well as everything there is to know about phonemes: articulation categories, how and where they are pronounced, how to read them, and of course, how to teach them. I didn't do much with intonation when I taught in Japan, but when I did, I actually ended up doing some of the same things that this unit...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Hama 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: D.W. – U.S.A. said: This unit covers course materials. There are three broad categories of material - authentic, created, and course books. Authentic materials are usually more current and interesting for the students because the are real. They do need to be carefully selected for the level of the students to supplement their learning level. An example could be a restaurant menu or a magazine. Students could practice a role play ordering food from the menu, or discuss an article from the magazine. Created materials...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Shijiazhuang 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: P.B. - Korea said: In unit 3 we learn about classroom management and different ways teachers can manage their classroom so that effective learning can take place. Teachers need to know when to be firm and when to leave the students alone. It is important for the teacher to be flexible in the classroom and to change roles according to the activity or situation. Teachers should manage their classes in a friendly, relaxed manner while maintaining discipline. In this unit I learnt about nine different ways that...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Ohio 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. - Spain said: This unit focused on the future tense and its various forms. The seven tenses covered were the future simple, continuous, perfect, perfect continuous, ?going to,? present simple, and finally present continuous. In going over the unit I?ve come to understand the different usages for each tense covered. For the future simple typically one would use its form for fact and certainties, prediction, spontaneous decisions, assumptions, or promises among others. The future continuous tense can be used to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Johannesburg 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: S.C – New Zealand said: Tenses are used to indicate time in the practice of English. Although most linguists have a strong standing on there are only two tenses exist, most of the EFL teachers will introduce three types of time classification in class which are the present, the past and the future. Each of these three tenses has four aspects to indicates different usages such as the simple, continuous, perfect and perfect continuous. Tenses are one of the area which confuses students the most while learning...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL 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: W.W. – U.S.A. said: Testing and evaluation constitute a major part in the teaching learning process and which is what this unit has examined. Without this, the teacher maybe not be able to appropriately and accurately get a clue of what he is doing or should be doing, what his or her learners levels in the language; what they already know or how far they have gone in the learning process and what still needs to be done or re-enforced.This unit has also examined the major different types of tests and purpose...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Kobe 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: J.A. - Italy said: I learned about Conditionals and Reported Speech in Unit 16. There are five main Conditionals that I learned; Zero Conditional, First Conditional, Second Conditional, Third Conditional, and Mixed Conditional. All five types have specific formulas (similar to a math problem) to follow when forming them. Also, there tends to be errors with non-native speakers of English regarding the difference in usage between 1st and 2nd Conditionals. Also there can be similar error patters and confusion with the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Homs 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: L.S. - France said: Theorists suggest that lesson planning is not a good idea because it creates a more fixed teacher centered lesson. Too much planning too makes lessons rather rigid and stop the teacher being flexible to the needs of the learners. It is difficult for inexperienced teachers to be as flexible as this would require. Good teachers are expected to let students decide what to do in the class, however inexperienced teachers would find it difficult in conducting a lesson in such a way, because they...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Cert TESOL 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: J.B. - Australia said: Multiple IntelligencesThe theory of multiple intelligences was created by psychologist Howard Gardner in 1983, as an alternative to the conventional view of intelligence as a single linear variable. He found the standard concept of intelligence to be too limited, since it failed to explain how students could excel in one area whilst performing poorly in another, and also because he considered intelligence tests to generally only measure a very small spectrum of human ability. Thus he proposed that...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jimo 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.L. - Germany said: Unit 15 was about Evaluation and Testing. This unit reviewed different ways to assess a students language level; Tutorials, Evaluations by the Student and Tests. Tutorials are basically a chat with students about how they perceive they are progressing in the course and then how you feel they are doing in the course. It's a good time for students to ask questions and teachers to provide advice to students on an individual level. Usually done one on one tutoring can be done in a group setting....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Cali 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: J.B. – U.S.A. said: There are many methods of teaching used by teachers all over the world starting from Grammar-translation and audio-drills finishing with CLL and CTL, the choice of which to use in a class greatly depends on students' level. I think all of methods can be used appropriately in a special situations, but for grammar-translation, which is impossible when a teacher doesn't know students' L1. A lesson has a special structure, each lesson should start with Engage phase where students should speak English,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Heze 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. - Korea said: Unit 16 covered the grammar about conditionals and reported reported speech. The section on conditionals was broken down in to smaller sections briefly describing zero, first, second, third, and mixed conditionals and gave examples of their general layout as well as an example to show the rule in action. I found the teaching ideas for this section to be unique; the nuclear bunker role-play, and can see how they would be easy enough to alter based on what the students are interested in or what the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Utah 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: S.C. - Canada said: This unit centers around teaching receptive skills, which include reading and listening, to English learners. People read and listen to language for purpose and for entertainment. How one uses receptive skills depend on the reasons/motives for reading and listening. Furthermore, depending on the reasons/motives for reading and listening and/or the task given, one must use specific skills to obtain information. These specific skills include predicting, skimming, scanning, reading for details, and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Cixi 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: N.D. - Mauritius said: Unit 16 covered both conditionals and reported speech. The most common conditionals are zero conditional (e.g. when you heat water, it will boil), first conditional (e.g. if you study hard, you'll pass the test), second conditional (e.g. if I had a million dollars, I'd travel the world), third conditional (e.g. if I had studied harder, I would've passed the test), and mixed conditional (e.g. if I had gone to film school, I'd be a director by now). The grammar for conditionals is often tricky for...  [Read more]