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Check out tefl tesol about Dates 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: K. C. - South Korea said: english as a global LanguageI come from South Africa where there are 11 Official Languages, but I come from an Afrikaans background and I was raised by an Afrikaans Mother. Being raised Afrikaans is slightly different to being raised english. My mother new how important it was going to be for my future to rather raise me predominantly english and put me in an english School. I thank her for doing this because I am Bilingual and because I can speak english fluently and well, I am...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Hellertown 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: There are three types of course material -- things produced for native speakers/real-world materials, things produced for students by the teacher, and the course book. Authentic materials can be good for higher level students (especially because it boosts their confidence and is real), but are not good for beginner level students. Materials produced by the teacher can be good when the class is struggling with a concept, but the teacher does not know if it is going to work or not. Course...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs United Kingdom Blackburn 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 number 4 shows us the vocabulary, grammar and the functions of these. In my case I learnt that is important to know to choose the vocabulary to be taught during a lesson and the factors we need to take into account to choose it. Most of the times we just throw vocabulary to the students and we don't really check if it is going to be useful for them. We need to focus on language that is going to be put into practice and is relevant for the class. It's not just giving words and their...  [Read more]

  This presentation is going to focus on the ESA methodology of teaching. In our teaching methodologies section, we briefly had a look at what ESA was about, but in this presentation, we're going to look in greater detail about that particular methodology. This particular methodology is accredited to Jeremy Harmer from his "Practice of English language Teaching" book. It's a three-stage methodology and what we're going to do is to look at the purpose of each one of these stages and some typical activities that take place during those stages. So, the first stage is known as the engage and its sole purpose, as the name implies, is to get the students talking and thinking in English. There is no reason whatsoever, when these students come to your class, that they should have said a...  [Read more]

  The idiom "elbow room" refers to having enough room to move in or having the ability to act freely, for example: The concert was so crowded that there was hardly any elbow room at all. This means, there were so many people at the concert that you could barely move. 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. Unit 8 Future tenses, another unit rich with information and future predilection when we talk about our furure life. I actually liked this unit...  [Read more]

  This presentation is going to focus on the section of classroom management. We could start with a definition of classroom management as being the skill of organizing the class individual students within that class and what takes place within the class. Perhaps one of the most important resources for achieving these things is you and in terms of you there are a number of things that you can use to help with the classroom management and they include though they're not limited to the use of your eyes the use of your voice and the use of gesture. So let's take each of these in turn and see how they can be used to help with their management of the classroom. So starting with our eyes. First of all the eyes can be used in a number of ways and they can certainly be used to hold...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Legit TESOL Programs 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: Y.L – U.S.A. said: I have learned many strategies to teach a group of students, and also brush up on my english. There are many things in this course that I did not learned while I was taking english courses here. I was surprise that the public schools here did not offer those types of lessons. I will use the teaching skills I have learned here in the future as I will look for a job in another country to teach english. I am going to travel to various parts of the world and I think becoming a language...  [Read more]

  The next item we're going to consider is the use of dictionaries and here perhaps the first thing we should do is to make a distinction between the two main types of dictionary and that distinction is between the monolingual and the bilingual dictionary. In a monolingual dictionary you have a word and its associated meaning and those two are both described for example in English so the word and the description of that word are both given in English. Whereas in a bilingual dictionary that word meaning could often be for example the word given in English and the explanation given in Thai and vice versa. So what can we use a dictionary for? Well, within the dictionary itself obviously we can get things like how words are spelled or the spelling of the word. We can also get the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Linesville 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: Unit 13 was very difficult but very informative. Teaching how to teach pronunciation without any audio input makes things particularly difficult. Phonology is the study, science, analysis and classification of the physical properties of sounds. We covered intonation, the variation in volume and pitch in a sentence. This can be taught using Nonsense Words, Humming and on the Blackboard. The stress of a word in a sentence can change the whole meaning of the sentence. The phonemic alphabet...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Authorized TESOL Diploma 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. K. - Slovakia said: Lesson PlanningJeremy Harmer wrote: “The best teachers are those who think carefully about what they are going to do in their classes and who plan how they are going to organise the teaching and learning.” Nowadays, there are many different teaching methods and approaches in the world of TEFL, but most of the teachers and linguistic experts have agreed on one thing and that is a benefit of lesson planning. The definitions of a lesson plan can differ, but in general we can say...  [Read more]

  So let's have a look at some of the more general issues when using the wipe board. Perhaps the most important thing to start with is that we should start with a clean board. Secondly it's always very useful to make a board plan so that you know where things are going to appear on the board by the end of your lesson. It?s very simple to do a board plan. Just take a sheet of paper, which is similar in shape to the board that you're going to use, and then onto that piece of paper decide where all the information that's going onto your board is going to be by the time that you've finished. So a very simple board plan just to show where the information is going to be. Also it's very useful if you make use of tables and columns to separate different areas of your work and in the same...  [Read more]

  Our next main issue is going to be that of giving students individual attention. Here many classroom management and leaving potential discipline problems can be avoided by applying some simple rules to giving your students attention. The first one is to think about the way in which you ask questions. Don't ask questions in a predictable order. If you just go around the class asking questions from one person to the next then the person at the end of the class will know that it's going to be some time before you actually get to them. So try to mix up the way in which you're asking questions. In terms of answers to questions don't allow individual students to dominate all of the answers. One of the things that we can do to help this particular issue is to use the students names as...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Haiti Delmas 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 future tense the past tense the tense system you never realize when you're speaking what tense you're referring to because you're just talking and as an English speaker you just understands if you're talking about something that happened, going to happen, or is happening. I believe in this lesson they did have a lot of examples and usage and different forms of the word and I think that the most important thing when it comes to teaching the student is just examples, examples, examples, the...  [Read more]

  A final example is going to be an example of a patchwork ESA lesson and remember we said the form of this particular lesson will start with and engage always and will finish with and activate and there'll be some variation of E, S and A within the brackets here. So we're going to generate our patchwork ESA lesson as follows. Starting with the engage, the students are going to look at holiday photos and talk about what they like and don't like from what they see. From that, we're going to move directly into an activate phase and what the students are going to do is to make comments about holiday brochures and try to act out a role-play between the travel agent and a customer. Again, as this is taking place, the teacher will be moving around and looking for gaps in knowledge in...  [Read more]

  Before we go into looking at the actual receptive skills lesson, if we were thinking about what potential problems there could be in these lessons. So, what things could go wrong in a reading lesson? Well, firstly the students when they are reading in a language that is not their native language, they tend to read every word as a separate piece and by reading word to word it?s very difficult to get an overall impression of what that particular text is saying. Secondly, the sentence length in a lot of articles that we will get will be very long and many of our students will not be used to that structure of language. So, here it's important to have a think about the way in which the text has actually been written and will it be fairly easy to read. The final thing is the actual...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Companies Legit 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. - Canada said: Games in the classroomPlaying games in your classroom are an important part of being an english teacher. Games can be used to get students engaged into a lesson from the beginning, can be used during the study portion of your lesson, or used as an activity for the students to apply what they have learned that day. This article will break down the kinds of games you can play during the engage, study, and activate stages of a normal ESA lesson. During the engage portion of an ESA lesson,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about College TESOL Course 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.H. & M.B. - Canada said: english as a Global LanguageEnglish existing as a global language is an interesting idea. english does exist in many parts of the world as a common language, but in many cases it’s not “english” as a native-english speaker knows it. In some parts of Southeast Asia for example, english has been combined with the local languages and is becoming a sort of pidgin language. If you spend a short time in these countries, I think you tend to view the difference in spoken english as...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about College Complete 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.F. - Ecuador said: Problems for learners in EcuadorI have lived in Ecuador for the last 5 years, and the longer I live there the more disappointed I become with their educational system. My experience with teaching other subjects and dealing with the general public there has made me appreciate the education I received in the US. Although, it was not perfect by any means I learned to reason, study, and pay attention. These things all seem to be lacking in the Ecuadorian educational system. Students seem...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about College Diploma 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. - USA said: Pronunciation Problems for KoreanIn the past few months, I have been researching the Korean language in preparation for my eventual stay in that country, South Korea. There are many scholars who list it as a language isolate, and the language itself has resisted too much influence from China and Japan for about three thousand years. It is Altaic, so it has a few Siberian languages which share commonalities. But for the most part, it differs highly from chinese, which is tonal, and from...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Rochester New York 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 covered the basic parts of speech and how they are put together to form a sentence. I come away with a refreshed understanding of the different parts of speech, but also with a sense of awe for people who become fluent in English as a second language. There are so many irregular verbs and irregular word modifications! One point that I did not realize before is that all words that end in -ing are not gerunds. A gerund is the -ing form of a verb when it is used as a noun.Conditional and...  [Read more]