What Is One Of The Hardest Languages To Learn

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Tlalpan Mexico 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 theories, methods and techniques. Surprisingly, this was one of the hardest unit I've went across. I learnt the different methodologies to learn the language. In ESA lesson, I learnt the three types which was Straight Arrow, Boomerang and Patchwork. We went through all the examples in a very detailed manner. Overall, this unit was a very challenging and confusing oneIn this Unit 19, I have learned to put in practice the straight arrow that is engage, study and activate...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Union Springs Alabama 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 students correct pronunciation is a vital part of learning a new language. English language students find pronunciation the hardest part of acquiring their new language. To teach pronunciation effectively it is important that students learn the position of the tongue, lips and teeth for each sound they must produce. One way to get students to pronounce words correctly is to spell them using the international phonemic alphabet. Alongside pronunciation, students must also become aware of...  [Read more]

  http://www.teflcourse.net In this video the teacher trainer looks at the usage of the past perfect continuous. The past perfect continuous is used to talk about a past action that was continuing up until another point in the past. For example: Before moving to Korea, I had been teaching in Thailand for three years. ITTT's TEFL Courses provide you with the opportunity to find teaching jobs all over the world. Whether you want to work amongst the long history of Europe or spend your free time living the beach life in Southeast Asia, teach professionals business English in a thriving metropolis or teach kids out in the sticks, earning yourself a TEFL certificate with ITTT will make the right type of teaching jobs available to you. /// Are you ready to live and teach abroad? Click...  [Read more]

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  Some and Any are two words that often cause confusion, which is why we have decided to take a closer look at the difference of the two words in this video. Firsly, some is a determiner used for positive statements while any is a determiner used in questions and negative statements. Consider the following situation: I asked the teacher if he could give me some paper. I said ‘Excuse me, have you got any paper?’ Unfortunately, he didn’t have any. The first statement is positive and therefore requires us to use some. The second sentence is a question and therefore, we need to use any. The third and final sentence is a negative statement which also requries us to use any. It's worth noting that we do sometimes use some in questions and we also use any in positive statements. For...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Colombo 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 got the opportunity to delve into the world of grammatical structures a bit more and expand my knowledge of it. I discovered how to optimise the way to teach grammatical structures, language functions and vocabulary, so that my future students can learn it in a more effective way. I also learned what type of ESA is the most effective for the different type of things I will need to teach them in hopes that it can help them become fluent in English one day. And it taught me what are...  [Read more]

  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word acumen. This word refers to a person's ability to make good decisions in a particular field. Suitable synonyms for acumen are shrewdness, sharpness, or cleverness. The word is of Latin origin from acuere (to sharpen). 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. This was the hardest unit, it blew my mind, the phonetics took me a long time. I feel like I need to digest it. Perhaps in some hours I will...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Location 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.D. – U.S.A. said: I have gained an incredible insight in the way of teaching. Before I took this course, I had prior teaching experience, but I didn’t really know what I was doing. If only I’d had this course before I went to teach on the JET program in Japan. I was never really good at grammar, but this course gave me a greater understanding of all of that. Now I can go into a classroom and have the proper confidence to teach things like grammar and correct tenses. Confidence is a good thing to have...  [Read more]

  "In terms of the things that are negative about it, we've already said that it doesn't develop speaking but perhaps the biggest negative point about this particular methodology is that it's very unnatural. Ok, so despite the criticisms of this particular method, and particularly the fact that is unnatural, this particular methodology was in use all the way through the 17th, 18th and 19th century and indeed it's still in use today. However, Gouin in the 1880s and Berlitz in the early 1900s decided that this particular methodology was so unnatural that they wanted to come up with something new. The method that they came up with, they called the direct method. You will also sometimes see it as the natural method. What these two people were saying is that if we wish to learn a...  [Read more]

  So now we'll consider the actual classroom arrangements themselves in terms of the physical desk layout. There are possibly three main types of arrangements that are used within classrooms and we're going to indicate the desks here as being boxes and the arrangements of the students within those desks will be blue crosses. So here we have the desks ranged in rows and the students sitting within those rows. The second arrangement could be the use of horseshoes or semi circles and finally the use of individual desks. So for each of these arrangements what are the potential advantages and disadvantages of arranging our seating in this way? Let's take the rows first of all. One of the potential advantages is that it does give the teacher the opportunity, if it's arranged correctly,...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about Class 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.D. - Canada said: Foreign Language ExperienceHaving lived in South Korea for almost 20 months, I’ve obviously had a lot of experience with the Korean language and Korean culture. I’ve learned a lot about how someone can effectively acquire a second language and how difficult it can be. The focus of this topic will be on how necessary having formal training is to acquire a foreign language. The Korean language is one of the hardest languages in the world to acquire. According to the united states...  [Read more]