Tesol Writing

  We are going to move on to the second of the productive skills, which is writing and, again, we'll have look at the background, too, and create a typical lesson for a writing skills session. One of the things to be aware of in a writing skills lesson is that writing tends to be more formal than spoken English. So, there will be some differences between the two, such as writing very often uses less contracted forms and so on, but having said that there are many similarities between the two particular skills. So, many of the considerations that we had for a speaking skills lesson will also apply here to a writing skills lesson. Within writing skills itself there are some sub-skills that we may want to teach and those sub-skills could include, but are not limited to, hand writing...  [Read more]

  So let's have a look now what might take place in a typical writing lesson and, again, we're going to use the format of a straight arrow ESA lesson. Our first stage is to the go to the engage stage and, if we think back to what we said before, what we need to do is try to generate interest. So, an example here could be we show a picture first of all taken from a newspaper or magazine and then we can ask the students some questions. From looking at the picture we can ask them if they can tell us what is actually happening now as shown by the picture. Then, we can generate a bit more interest by asking them to give us ideas about what they thought was happening before this picture took place and what happened after. So, here we're just trying to build up the idea of a sequence of...  [Read more]

  So, for the study phase what we're going to do is to show them the idea of the cartoon strip. In the cartoon strip what there's going to be are some people with speech bubbles and this is going to represent where dialogue will appear and in the bottom, there are these rectangular boxes, where there will be descriptive things happening. So, it will explain the actual situation that these people are in. So, we get across the idea, first of all, that these are speech and these are for description and we can then show them a blank one of these cartoon strips and try to elicit from our students what could possibly the people be saying and in what actual situation are they in, in order for them to say that. Once we've gone through that, we can move on to our first study activity and in...  [Read more]

  One of the major ideas here when writing on the board, is that we need to be aware that whenever we're using the board to write down information, we should not be talking and whenever we are talking we should not be writing on the board. This will inevitably lead to what's known as dead time when nothing is being said as we're putting information on the board. This dead time is not a problem but we can actually minimize it by using a number of techniques. We could use pre-prepared material. So we put information onto large pieces of paper and then instead of writing on the board, we actually stick those materials onto the board as we go through the class. Another idea is to actually ask students to write on the board for you. Another thing is that we could actually put work up...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Chile Talca 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 number twelve takes a look at the productive skills which are speaking and writing as they represent an important parts in english language . in thsi unit speaking and writing are introduced as a means of communication , however , writning is the most neglected skill in the language This unit explains the difference between accurancy as it is usually the part of the study phase , however , Fluency is usually part of the activate phase , but they have equal importance . Also there is an...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Cusco Peru 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 the three main components that need to be covered when teaching a new language: vocabulary, grammatical structure, and the function of the language. There are certain attributes of each component that must be taught. Teaching vocabulary, for example, requires students to learn about the meaning, usage, grammar, interaction, spelling, and pronunciation of the language. Furthermore, this unit provided techniques that may be used in each ESA teaching stage.This unit was similar to the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Peru puno 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 12 discusses the teaching of the productive skills, ‘speaking and writing’ and their differences. Writing requires more accuracy and speaking requires more fluency. While accuracy activities are concentrated on producing correct language, fluency activities are concentrated on letting students experiment and be creative with the language. Nevertheless, both accuracy and fluency are equally important to learning a language. The unit also discussed speaking activities in the classroom...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Hancheng China 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 taught helpful methods that can be used to educate students on different forms of pronunciation, including how to deal with intonation and stress in the English language. This lesson also gave instructions on how to properly use the International Phonetic Alphabet and the different ways in which we make those sounds using our mouths and lips. Some of the methods given to teach these intricate differences to students is to show them the differences by making the sounds ourselves, or by...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification China Liling 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: Teaching productive skills can be straight forward. The accuracy activities are usually controlled by the teacher. It is important ensure the accurate production of the language. On the other hand, fluency activities are less concerned with accuracy, but more on the effectiveness of the communication. In most cases, speaking activities require students to be confident in their English abilities, therefore it is important to have plenty encouragements, and activities suitable for their skill...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Point Hope Alaska 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 talks about teaching productive skills which is all about speaking and writting in a new language. As a teacher you needs to understand that some students are not effective in class and others are effective in class when learning a new language, so is important for a teacher to bring up important topics or lesson or interesting lessons trhat will enable the students participate. So, tyhe teacher needs to bring up activities that are interesting to the students and this will make make the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Kirvin Texas 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, the productive skills, wriitng and speaking, were covered. The different activities and layouts of the classes were shown to teach students these two different skills and how to enhance the learning of these two skills. Also, the difference between accuracy and fluency also came up. Accracy more prevelant in the writing phase and fluency in the speaking phase. Students also need to build confidence by doing practice activities in order to creat an enviroment to use productive skills...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Dongyang 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.L. - Philippines said: In this unit, we learned what should be considered when teaching the productive skills such as speaking and writting. While productive and receptive skills are equally important and both should be used similarly during a lesson; it is important to understand their differences. This unit focuses mainly on how we should teach speaking and writing and the use of games to both elicit motivation, participation and grade student in a fun environment on speaking and writing activities. When we...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Gustin 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: In this unit I learned about productive skills speaking and writing. It covered accuracy and fluency, and ideas for each. Problems that may prevent learning were discussed such as peer intimidation and decreased interest. Ideas were given to encourage interaction such as dynamic planning and pair and group work. We also learned about writing skills, what problems can arise during writing, how most teachers don't spend enough time on writing and how creative writing activities can be used to improve...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Concord Kentucky 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 the speaking section of this unit, I found the delineation of focusing on accuracy during the study phase and fluency during the activate phase to be very helpful. However, I did not find the writing section to be particularly helpful - at least not what I was hoping it would be. Rather than focusing on a creative writing lesson, I wish this unit had focused on academic writing. Creative writing is more flexible, more relative than academic writing. Because academic writing is more exacting, I...  [Read more]