Teaching English To Chinese Students

Check out tefl tesol about Company Best 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.M. - U.S.A. said: Problems for ESL Learners in ChinaAlthough studying a second language presents problems for all learners, it is important to examine similar problems faced by learners with similar language background. With the economic growth in China, it has been important for chinese students and workers alike to learn and study english to compete in the global economy. Thus it is important to determine the challenges chinese ESL students face in learning english. Pronunciation is one of the major...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Fitchburg 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 introduces various aspects of teaching special groups including beginners, individuals (one-on-one teaching), young learners, business English and monolingual vs. multilingual teaching. All the introductions on these groups will help me understand the groups better and make my teaching in future more effective. As I am planning to move back to China to teach English there, the features of teaching monolingual class attracted my attention immediately. As most of Chinese students intend to...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs sao paulo Brazil 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 have learned about teaching students to speak and write. I have learned that accuracy is about being correct and that fluency is about the flow of communication. There are activities that are made for accuracy such as drills and prompts and there are also activities made for fluency such as role-play and discussions. I also learn that the teacher can encourage their students to speak by guiding them during practice before doing fluency activities. Furthermore, the teacher can...  [Read more]

  http://www.teflonline.net This video looks at the structure of the positive form of the Present Simple tense. The negative form and the question form will be covered in other videos. The Present Simple talks about facts, habits and routines. Positive structure: subject + base form of the verb I/You/We/They teach English. He /She/It teaches English. There are a number of rules associated with the formation of the base verb. For most verbs add s to the base form of the verb -- plays, works... Verbs ending in o, s, z, ch, sh add es -- does, goes, washes... Verbs ending in a consonant plus y, change the y to i and add es -- cries, flies tries.... The verb be becomes am/is/are. The verb have becomes have/has. As a certified TEFL graduate you could gain a teaching position in...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Kashan Iran 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 future tenses, a truly complicated area of the English language. In contrast, form in the Chinese language doesn?t change for future tense. As I will be teaching (hah; Future Continuous) English to Chinese students in a few months from now, this particular area will be one of the most crucial ones to master and teach. I?ll make sure to look back on this chapter frequently.These two videos showed a striking contrast between what an effective ESL lesson is versus an...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Long Beach 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: It's often said the best spoken English is in the simple present tense. And because the majority of ESL students are basically in Asia; and because the Chinese make a huge majority of these students; and because the Chinese language is quite a complex language with little or no emphasis on the tenses especially the simple present tense, equipping the ESL teacher or potential one especially those working in Asia with the basic grammar of the simple present tense is worthwhile. This unit thoroughly...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Sulamaniya Iraq 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's important for me to know the structure to forming past tenses when I'm teaching English as a second language. I didn't have to learn this to speak English as a native language. But now that I'm teaching English to Chinese students, it's important for them to understand why and how we use different words to describe the past because English is a lot different from Chinese. There are four different structures to past tenses: past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Udaipur India 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: Receptive skills are so important. Being able to read and understand English allows you to access media (TV, news, books, etc) and participate in conversations, even if you?re mostly listening. Reading ability is one of the reasons I really wanted to learn Chinese. I love Chinese literature, and I wanted to read it in its original language. My experience with learning Latin and Attic Greek was almost entirely receptive, since people don?t usually speak or write new content in those languages...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about Course TESOL Rates 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.W. -Australia said: Problem for learners in Hong KongHong Kong had been the colony of england for one and a half century until she was returned to China on 1/7/1997. Mandarin won over english and has become a massively growing language in Hong Kong since then. Although nowadays there are still loads of Hongkongers who prefer to have english as their second language, the chances for them to be exposed to it are getting less and less as there are lots of problems for english learners in Hong Kong such as...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Leeds 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: said: This lesson goes into further detail about different aspects of a language that students must learn, and how they can be best taught through the different components of an ESA teaching style. Choosing vocabulary has always seemed a difficult task for language teachers. In my Chinese classes, students would often become disgruntled if the new vocabulary we were learning did not seem the most useful or applicable to our language level. This lesson provided some tips for selecting the most appropriate...  [Read more]

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