Wright State Tesol

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Wright Arkansas 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 illuminating for me on several fronts. Teaching methodologies such as Audio-lingualism, grammar-translation, CLL, and The Silent Way, to name a few, gave me an opportunity to determine how I learn a second language, and which methods worked and did not work. Moreover, knowing the various methodologies may help me to conclude the best approach for teaching specific groups or individuals?what suits them/him/her. I particularly found the Engage-Study-Activate (ESA) model helpful. ...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Wright City Oklahoma 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: Special ESL OR EFL groups could be beginners of various levels, children, adults, one-to-onetutoring ESP such as business English,multilingual or monolingual groups. Teaching children requires different techniques than teaching adults as children are less motivated and need more management in class. Teaching a Business English class does not require solid knowledge of business but it is a wise for the teacher to have some understanding of the client's business line and industry. A needs analysis...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Rockbridge Wisconsin 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 11 differentiates receptive skills(reading and listening) from productive skills(speaking and writing). The unit continues on to discuss various types of reading and listening, each involving specific motivations and specialized receptive skills. Finally, teaching strategies for receptive skill lessons are presented, considering the selection of appropriate and engaging material and comprehension-promoting tasks. A major concern in teaching using text and/or dialogue is the introduction of...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Allenport 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 unit focused on the future tenses in the English language. There are 7 common future tenses which include the future simple, future continuous, future perfect, future perfect continuous, be-going + infinitive, present simple and present continuous. As with the units on The Present Tense and The Past Tense, this unit required me to think about language and my word choice. I have been speaking English for over 50 years so I say that it comes \"naturally\" to me but it is really years of...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Reydon Oklahoma 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 a plethora of resources available to teachers and students of ESL. The unit maintains that being prepared, knowing how to use resources, and spending minimal time dealing with troubleshooting electronics, or with one's back to the students is important. I love all of the online resources that were included in this unit. While, I was not able to look into each one, I will certainly print out this list and visit various sites in order to explore these resources. I also had some difficulty...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Hinsdale 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: There are four past verb form tenses reviewed in this unit. Past simple verbs are used when referring to a completed past action. Past perfect continuous verb forms are used when talking about actions or situations that have been happening in the past around the same time as another action. Past Perfect is another form to express an action in the past that happened before another past action.Finally, past continuous verbs are used for interrupted past actions. All forms of past tense verbs are used...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Maben Mississippi 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 all about testing, it goes into the different types of tests that taken in certain points of the course and which tests are useful for which purposes. For example, the placement test is given in order to determine the level of English the student has acquired and which class they should be placed into. The diagnostic test helps to determine the class' skill level and which lesson the teacher should start with. The progress test is given regularly and is there to determine how the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Henderson United States 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 thought that the methodologies and techniques section was interesting as it's something that I have not learnt in the past. However I feel as if the methodologies and techniques used are very specific to TEFL and are not always used in all teaching settings. The lesson structure section is something that I would like to further develop as I feel as if it would be very important when planning lessons and has provided me with useful information.Learning this section was challenging but...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs United States Lowell 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 evaluating the students' level of English. The main focus is on the various types of tests acording to their purpose: placement tests, practice tests, diagnostic tests, progress tests and external tests. Some are used to evaluate the current level and the progress of the students during a course (placement and progress tests) and some are to prepare for a specific external test that helps them obtain an official certificate (diagnostic and practice tests). Though there are...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Allentown United States 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 section gives good examples of lessons structures and idea of what to do during those structures. There are many useful and interesting game ideas, as well as more interactive study methods for the students. When and how often to correct students is a very delicate thing. The best is when the student can correct themselves but has just spoken too quickly to think of all the grammar. I will be using the correction ideas in my current lessons.Unit 9's topic of Lesson Planning covered a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs United States Lancaster 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 focuses on modals and passive voice, as well as relative clauses and phrasal verbs, which makes it grammar packed. It reinforces my previous knowledge on these grammar concepts.. Modal auxiliary verbs and passive voice were explained in detail. Many of the modals have the same uses (e.g. ‘should, must, and have to’ are used to express obligation). The chart presented is very useful to see the difference and the similarity in the uses of modals. The difference between...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Cambridge United States 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 quite the lesson I can see how students can get really confused in the future tense and I also feel a need to study it more for myself. I'm really see that I have been using English glibly with out really knowing or understanding what I am saying or why I'm saying what I'm saying. I'm seeing that I'm taking my language for granted and that I have a lot to learn, especially in the future tense, so that I can then share it with my students.This unit dealt with the present tense. The...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs United States Lafayette 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 has been really helpful in the area of lesson design, I really like the idea of using workbooks alongside creating and developing resources yourself as a teacher. As a person new to teaching kids I understand the need and use of book resources but would like to be able to be more creative in my approach as I grow in confidence and gain more teaching experience. I love the lesson plan format this enables me to be able to cover all the aspects of the lesson and feel confident,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs United States Corpus Christi 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 has helped me to get a grasp on a few of the harder parts of English grammar. For example, when to use \"the\" before a noun. I was rather surprised by the fact that the definite article \"the\" cannot be used before certain proper nouns but must be used before others. These rules seem rather arbitrary (e.g., use \"the\" before names of rivers, oceans, and seas, but not before lakes and bays), and knowing which parts of English grammar are more arbitrary and difficult will...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification United States Huntington Beach 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: Having teaching aids and resources in the classroom are almost essential for an engaging and stimulating lesson, and most schools can provide enough of these, but others can not. Most schools will have some kind of board to work on, and board work should be planned by the teacher ahead of time, and should be organized to suit the needs of the students. Well funded schools will likely have teaching resources to match the technologically advancing times, but a teacher cannot...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs United States Fresno 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 modal auxiliary verbs, passive forms, relatives clauses and phrasal verbs. Modal auxiliary verbs can express different ideas, such as obligation, politeness, permission, ability and advice. Depending on what you want to say, you will have to use a specific modal verb. Some of them express a different degree of certainty; others are used for more or less polite questions. The passive form is used when we want to focus on the action and not on the doer or agent of the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Lowell United States 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: Testing is a very important part of teaching, but it is also the most stressful for students (at least me anyway). Testing is a necessary evil, but I think we could improve on the way we test students. I feel as if testing is just a test of memorization. Instead of knowledge of the actual language. On the other hand, learning a language is sometimes a matter of simply memorizing words. We have a lot to improve but maybe we'll get there someday.Speaking and writing are productive skills where...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Omaha United States 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 units piece together in a coherent picture it makes the whole teaching technique an indispensable tool of lesson-management. Teaching receptive as well as productive skills makes up the common agenda for any teacher.Violation of simple but workable rules(e.g.skipping presentation of problem vocabulary prior to the activity itself) often leads to bad results.In this unit, it discusses the advantages to incorporating authentic as well as creative materials in a lesson even when the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Overland United States 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 feel encouraged. Even this lessons teaches us to read a lot and even listening on what you read and also to the student as they try to express themselves by talking.Try and know your student by spend time with them and you will not face difficulties in teaching as you know their interest in all areas of teaching them new things because they are all different.This section of the course is about evaluating and testing the skills of the students. If a teacher gives feedback often...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs United States Irving 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 enlightening to think more about how I might pick specific objectives or topics to cover in one lesson. It is hard to think about how to begin to break up something as big as a language into bite sized pieces that you can go over just one thing in one lesson. I liked that this helped me to see how to do that. I might have a lesson on vocabulary around a topic first. Then have a lesson about how to use those words into a grammatical structure. Or maybe have a lesson using those...  [Read more]