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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Illinois Peoria 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 skills must be developed for students to effectively communicate in English. When introducing productive activities the teacher must present a purpose and interest in communicating to keep the students motivated. Speaking activities can be controlled with a focus on accuracy, guided to encourage a bit more creativity or fully creative to focus most on fluency. Writing activities will address spelling and punctuation. It is important to introduce many different...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Peoria Illinois 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 17 presents the different teaching equipment. Moreover, it illustrates the advantages and disadvantages of each equipment. Personally, the websites given in this unit are very useful for EFL teachers to have an effective class by using games, worksheets, audio files and videos found in each website. These files can help teachers prepare well for the class and for the students to practice at home too.T regards Robhis part of the course gave me great insight into my position as a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Springfield Illinois 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 chapter, the focus was on pronunciation. It can be difficult to teach students how to naturally pronunciate words in the English language, but by breaking down sentence and focusing on stress, intonation and articulation, it can become easier. East ways to teach pronunciation is through peer dictation, modeling your mouth, showing visuals of how sounds are made, using phonemes and tongue twisters.Having read this unit, it was noticed how Present Tense and Future Tense are...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Illinois Springfield 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: Evaluation can be done every after class in many different ways. As it was mentioned in unit three, teachers can evaluate the students during study and activate stages and may or may not give immediate feedback. While testing can be a little bit tricky, as we need to determine the purpose of the test and how it is conducted. In this chapter it is good that in every assessment there are choices of the different approach of the kind of testing should be given. We know that the test...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Aurora Illinois 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 unit six we looked at the past tense. We looked at the past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous tenses. For each tense, we looked at the form the tense takes on in the affirmative, negative and question for each tense. We also looked at the usages for each tense, the typical errors learners tend to make and some ideas as to how to practice each tense in a classroom setting.This unite explains how to use ESA methods to introduce new language. For example,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Illinois Aurora 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: Phonetics presents a unique challenge, because it strongly impacts writing and speaking ability; if pronunciation is incorrect, that can lead to incorrect writing(because the learner may visualize incorrect information), and difficult-to-understand speaking. But sometimes practicing sounds can be tiresome, which is why I believe the activities are crucial in this stage, so that it doesn't become repetitive. It was interesting to see how the combination of stress and intonation work...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Vernon Hills 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: This unit gives an interesting and thorough overview of the huge range of equipment and aids that can be brought into the classroom to assist in more effective lessons for both student and teacher. This included electronic media through internet resources and written materials. It also gave very good advice. Always have a back-up plan. I once found myself carrying-out a listening practice exam and the CD would not play in the CD player provided. I was rather impressed by the list of internet links...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Champaign Illinois 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 we learn about evaluating and testing students. It gives three ways to assess a students language level, they are tutorials, evaluation by the students and tests. It outlines four types of tests that can be given to the students. Placement tests which allow the teaches to place new students into the correct class depending on their language ability. Progress tests which gauge what language has been remembered or acquired and what language has been forgotten. Diagnostic tests which help...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Edenville 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: I am really enjoying this course. The step by step instruction along with examples is confidence building. As I complete each task sheet and have to create a lesson plan using one of the delivery methods it becomes easier and faster to complete the lesson plan template. Especially appreciated was the task materials. This allowed me to see how I would integrate a worksheet into my lesson plan as it relates to teaching a particular worksheet. The samples also help me to determine what kind of...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Peoria Illinois 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: A very important task for every teacher whether experienced or not is to have a lesson plan ready, I've been really good at improvising my lessons, since I have that ability and interpersonal skills it worked most of the time, yet some other times I would find myself all over the place. Having a good lesson plan prevents that, adds a logical sequence, creates a record and helps with future lesson planning as well. I've gained good insight on how to properly plan a lesson, and the template provided...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Illinois Peoria 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 learnt that there are numerous teaching aides one can employ when teaching students, each with their own set of advantages and disadvantages. This unit was therefore very helpful in helping me start to think about how I want to go about teaching prospective students, and the resources I have at my disposal. Though, As stated in the unit, the resources one can use is dependent on the resources offered by the school. I found the point on 'board management' especially useful, as the little...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Aurora Illinois 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 about the teaching productive skills - speaking and writing. These two skills are very important for the students to know, in order to be able to construct sentences and phrases correctly, be able to speak and write without mistakes, and correctly express their thoughts during speaking and writing. So, for a teacher, it is extremely important to know in details how to create a lesson and teach the students in an appropriate way, taking into advance all stages of a lesson, such as...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Illinois Aurora 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: Productive Skills: Reading and writing If a teacher wishes to introduce a communicative activity to the students, he or she should bring in a number of factors: - They have some communicative purpose - They want to say something - They want to listen to something - They are interested in what is being said The teacher must create the need and desire, in the students, to communicate. Accuracy activities: Accuracy activities (usually part of the study phase) are concentrated on producing correct...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Illinois Springfield 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 chapter focuses on the productive skills; speaking and writing, which are to communicate. I totally agree that writing is the most difficult part among four basic skills, but it is the most neglected skill at the same time. Therefore, I focused on how to help students to improve their writing skill while I was reading. For English learners, even though it is not completely easy because of the difference between the way the letters pronounced and the way they written, if they don't have a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Brownsburg 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: Unit 19 is about teaching the different groups of students. The different groups can be students in groups and one to one lessons. Within these groups, there can be several different learners such as adult and young learners with or without experience in the English language. This unit also talks about what a teacher should and should not do. For example, the teacher should never threaten or overwhelm the students with a lot of homework. Another example with teaching Business English, would be, when...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Springfield Illinois 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 7 most common future tenses were discussed in length within this unit. I learned the types of usages for each tense, including similarities between them. One such similarity was that several tenses share a prediction type of usage. The future simple tense and \"going to\" future tense are two of the tenses with the only difference being that one is based on no present evidence while the other one is. Knowing the similarities will help greatly in distinguishing the slight differences...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL New Holland 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: said: This was another interesting unit about a very devise subject. I have encountered first hand a variety of responses to different textbooks. The structure that a book brings is nice, but it can quickly lead to monotony if a teacher only pulls from it without any other form of engaging learning. I personally like to use the book as a foundation and use activities and additional material that is relevant to the subject matters. I appreciate the break down of good ways to utilize a book and what...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Morrison Illinois 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 incredibly helpful in understanding classroom structure and layout. Understanding that students need to help each other, and hear instructions at a lower level than being taught was surprising to me and counter intuitive to what I came into the unit thinking. Doing more pair work, and not lecturing all the time will be something that I am going to put into practice. As a teacher, you feel like you have to impart learning on the students all the time. It takes training to understand...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Steubenville 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: said: In this unit, I found out different teaching themes that I can apply in my instructions. I learned how case study can be utilized as a tool that can provide wide array of learning opportunities for language learners. Furthermore, this authentic material can introduce more vocabulary and language structures. Frameworking can used in teaching through the process of input -> process -> and output ->. Moreover, I have learned that problem-based learning places a teacher a facilitator rather than...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Poipu Hawaii 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 learnt about different difficulties or common problems i can face when teaching for the first time. i think the most important thing is to establish rapport with your students, get to know them (their interests, their motivation, their likes and dislikes), and for them to get to know you. I think if they dont get to know you, or they dont like you at the beggining, then it is going to be very difficult for you to teach them properly later. i also learnt a few tips on what to do in certain...  [Read more]