Tesl Teaching English As A Second Language

TESL is a term commonly used in the USA, Australia and Canada to describe the act of teaching English to non native speakers in countries where English is the official language. It is also used to refer to the same teaching situation in areas where English is commonly spoken but not necessarily the official language. This type of teaching situation is often centred on migrants and refugees who need to learn the English language as a means of integrating into their new environment. To service this section of the English language industry there are numerous government and charity based programs available in many English speaking countries. For example, the USA has many programs available to the large numbers of migrant workers who come to the country from Mexico and other Latin American...  [Read more]

  Would you like to live and work abroad? With a TEFL or TESOL certificate you can work and live abroad, Teaching English as a Foreign Language or Teaching English as a Second Language. Check out ITTT's courses and start a new life with a TEFL or TESOL certification! Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next. I enjoyed the breakdown of the different techniques and methods. The examples of each stage (study, engage, activate) were extremely helpful as...  [Read more]

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  http://www.teflcourse.net This video explains the usage of the future perfect continuous tense. This tense is used to talk about how long an action/event will have been going on by a certain time in the future. Although the future perfect continuous is rarely used in everyday English, if you are looking to teach English as a second language, you will need to be knowledgeable on even rare grammar points such as this. So if you are considering entering the world of English teaching the best way to equip yourself with the necessary skills is to take a comprehensive TEFL course and ITTT's online TEFL courses give you a good foundation in the areas of English grammar that you are most likely to encounter when you first set out to teach English as a second language. More information...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Bukhara Uzbekistan 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 for unit (7), teaching new language, was studied, I now have a good idea how to teach new vocabularies with the grammatical structure to those who want to learn new language. Moreover, I could create better plan with the learners? center for my students. I as a teacher got some more new views of teaching vocabularies of the target language from this unit.By comparing good and bad teaching habits, this unit emphasized the characteristics that a good teacher has in the classroom. In...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about College Inexpensive 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.G. - Thailand said: 1st language vs 2nd language acquisitionThe differences between how language learners acquire their first language and learn a foreign language should be a topic that gets more attention, as it could help clarify why students struggle with new languages. In order to discuss the similarities and differences, we need to define some of the major lexicon associated with the topic. Generally speaking, someone’s first language (L1) is their native language. But are first and native...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about Inclass TESOL Lessons 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.P. - U.S.A. said: First Language v Second Language AcquisitionHow can a child learn language so quickly and how is that similar or different to how they pick up english later on in our classrooms? In this brief article I will attempt to highlight the differences between how children pick up their first language and how they pick up their second language. Then, a look at what can be improved upon for teachers of second languages. First, let us examine the environment in which the first language is picked...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about Accreditation TESOL 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: I. W. - Egypt said: Teaching EFL in KindergartenIt might be well-known that good knowledge of the native language has a positive influence on learning a second language, but what is known about the effects of learning a second language on the mother tongue? Vygotsky wrote the following: “…a foreign language facilitates mastering the higher forms of the native tongue” What follows is a brief discussion of the importance of foreign languages learning at an early stage, the positive influence it...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Peru 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: The teaching of pronunciation has witnessed remarkable changes throughout the history of language teaching and learning. teachers and applied linguists have been concerned with the difficulty of teaching this skill. In this respect, they have attempted to develop different methods and techniques with the reliance on other sub-disciplines such as phonetics, phonology and second language acquisition among others. Taking phonetics and phonology as a framework, teachers have tried to make use of the different...  [Read more]

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