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  So what we're going to do is to run through a series of methodologies that were created mainly in the 1900s that adopted the idea that language learning should be much more communicative, much more natural. The first one is called audiolingualism and it's also called the army method because of where it was developed. Basically, psychology, during the 1950s and 60s, was building up new theories about behaviorism. Perhaps the most famous experiments that were done in this particular area were by Pavlov, where he was showing that most animals undergo a stimulus response mechanism and he had a series of famous experiments, where by ringing a bell, he could cause a dog to salivate, that would be his response, in the expectation of getting some food. This behaviorist idea of stimulus...  [Read more]

  So, we'll focus first of all on a speaking skills lesson and perhaps a starting point for this would be to ask a question which is: Why do we speak to each other? The reason that it's important to ask ourselves this question is that whatever answers there are to this should be present in our lessons. So, why do we speak to each other? Well, there are a multitude of answers to that but when you boil them all down to their essence, they probably actually come down to one or two things. We communicate to each other by speaking because of either a need. We need something. We want something or a desire to achieve something. 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...  [Read more]

  Have you ever considered completing an online TEFL/TESOL certification course? Why not become one of the hundreds of people who each month do an online course with ITTT, just like Sacha from the United States. In this TESOL review video Sacha talks about her happy experience of studying the 120 hour tutor support course. She talks about how the course has given her a firm foundation on which to build her career as a successful English language teacher. 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...  [Read more]

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  So, the document itself needs to contain some general information about the class, for example the name of the teacher, the date and time of the lesson, what level of class is being taught and in what room, how many students are we expecting, this is important, when we've got things like photocopying and materials to do, what is the context of the lesson, in other words, what is the lesson actually about, what vocabulary or grammar point is this lesson covering and sometimes it's also useful to write out what the focus of the lesson is. So, in effect, the context of the lesson is telling us the grammar point, for example, that might be the present continuous tense, whereas the focus is telling us how we're going to go about teaching it. Another example to illustrate this: Let's...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Tolyatti Russia 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 very helpful for me in telling how to properly structure a class lesson. I liked all the helpful reasons it gave as to why for instance, keeping a record so that you know what you have already gone over and do not start to repeat your lessons so that the students might become bored. This was something I never gave any thought to. It always nice to get as much information as possible. I would like to be more confident as possible in front of a class.Unit 12 outlines the teaching of...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Jinhua 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 focused on ways to teach receptive skills to students. Receptive skills are reading and listening and they are used to obtain specific information (for a purpose) or for leisure activities like listening to a song that one likes or reading a novel. There are times when these can be used for both - like learning about a time in the past that one is interested in. The unit also gave examples of how to identify useful and suitable course materials depending on the objective of the lesson and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Russia Zhukovsky 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: Creating lesson plans gets easier and faster. Ideas come more naturally and quicker, I don't have to think about them as much as before and they are also varied, meaning I don't always use the same ideas. This unit helped me a lot for future comprenehnsion exercises. It helped how to choose, how to prepare myself and how to prepare students (!) for the listening/reading exercise they are about to complete. So far I've done it in the reverse way, namely students read the text and then we discussed...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Birjand Iran 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: when we teach,we will encounter some of the most common problem situations in the classroom,and we should know some suggest ways of dealing with them.From this unit,I've learned about what we should do in the first lessons,the ideas of typical warmers,the ways that we deal with different levels,the techniques that we deal with large classes and what can we do if the kids use their native language.Teaching grammar can feel like an overwhelming task but can be made significantly easier if...  [Read more]

  Hello. This presentation is going to cover this section on lesson planning and what we're going to do is to have a look as to why we go about planning a lesson, what do we actually put in it? We'll create an empty lesson plan pro-forma and then having done that what we'll do is to fill in that lesson plan for a particular teaching point. So, our starting position is going to be: "Why do we plan lessons at all?" There are a number of reasons why we need to plan a lesson. The first and foremost perhaps is that it's going to create a logical sequence for our lessons. If we didn't have a lesson plan, it is quite possible that we could go all over the place and it would become confusing for the students. By having this plan, what we've created is a structure that we can work from. So,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Russia Bratsk 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 by far the most difficult (and most fun) unit so far because I'm not as familiar with phonetics as I am with the other topics. I had previously learned a small portion of the phonetic alphabet when briefly studying Arabic and I'm very glad I was able to recall much of what I had learned - otherwise this material would have been entirely new to me. Speaking like a native speaker is so much more than just having the correct words - you actually have to sound like one too! This is why...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Probolinggo Indonesia 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 goes over the different variations of the future tense. It goes over the basic kinds (that match up with the same variety of past and present tenses) as well as the present simple, present continuous, and \"be going\" varieties. This unit helped me better understand the intentions behind different kinds of future tense structures. For example, it's particularly difficult to explain that the present tense can be applied to the future, but this unit helps give the precise reasons why...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Samarinda Indonesia 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 basically covers the classroom management in detail. It was very useful for me as it gives clear and useful instructions of what, when and how to do it. Me being more introvert than extrovert, have had some difficulties in managing the classes in the past. Now I can surely say that I am much better prepared for this task than ever before. I particularly liked the section about maintaining discipline and how to effectively reduce the teacher talk in order to give more talking time to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Spain Castellan De La Plana 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 a current Assistant Language Teacher in Japan, I found the culture-specific components to be very useful. For example, the reading said that in Asian countries, students are not encouraged to speak with the teacher unless directly told to do so. I find this is absolutely true. I liked reviewing the reasons for learning motivation through the lens of a low- to mid-level Japanese school, where many of my students are not motivated. I would like to incorporate / emphasize these...  [Read more]

  Now an example of a straight arrow ESA lesson for our engage phase. What we're going to do is to show the students a video of animals and they are going to say what they like about those animals and try to create a list of some more. So, remember what we're trying to do here is to get the students talking and thinking in English. We're using a typical engage activity, which is to create a list and we try to make sure that all the students have been involved in some way in creating those lists. Moving on to the study phase, the first part is going to be the board work and the teacher is going to try to elicit from the students what each of those animals can and can't do. Typically, what the students will say is just single words, so "run," "jump," "fly," etc. What we would then...  [Read more]

  The next idea we're going to consider is the use of visual aids and visual aids can include some examples such as real, objects, which we call realia, the use of pictures and photographs and also the use of models. So let's consider some of the ideas surrounding the use of visual aids. Well, why are they useful? Well, first of all the use of a visual aid can reduce teacher talk time. It's very much more simple just to show a real object than to try to describe it so that we could just ask the students ?what is this,? and they would say ?this is a pen,? rather than trying to actually describe it. Again if we were trying to show examples of fruit and vegetables rather than to try and describe them why not use an actual model and this is going to be much more visually stimulating...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Tula Russia 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 wish this course modeled teaching of English grammar for us. Like, why can?t we learn English grammar the way we?re supposed to teach it? It would certainly make it more interesting, and it could also improve our understanding of the subject matter. If the goal is teaching students to communicate effectively in English, I don?t know why these terms are so important.I learned about this uniit that realized the use of over head projectors and interactive white board .But with what concerns...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification India Coimbatore 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: Although I have taught for two years, some of the subtle reasons behind why teachers do what they do escape me. Even when I ask, the reasons are not always clear or concrete. Varying seating would be very effective when teaching much larger classes, once I learn the students' names and personalities. I definitely played the dominance game at first, as I teach only teenage boys. However, that becomes less effective without administrative backup. Also, in other Western countries the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Philippines Mandaluyong City 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: So Unit 7 was a little more relaxing and I enjoyed reading it as well. I really liked the scramble sentence study activity to learn grammar structure. It is definitely going to be something I will use in the future. The one lesson that I did find challenging was where we are asked to create our own ESA for the 'present continuous'. I have no idea why I found that challenging... I thought showing students visuals of different activities (hobbies), have them identify their own, then...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Butler 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: I felt this unit was a bit weak. I felt like some the worksheet examples were just repeats from other chapters whereas a list could have sufficed. I kind of understand why you didn't have textbook example (I'm assuming because of copyright) but I would have appreciated an example of course book materials for the teacher. I did like how this unit emphasized the happy medium of using both the course book and outside materials. Many teachers I know starting out just use the course book and do not use...  [Read more]