TEFL in China

I have personally gained a lot of confidence and knowledge from this course. This course has covered many necessary parts of language, teaching methods and many other useful information which is essen

Gained a greater realization of the importance of the flow of a lesson. My ability to use a lesson plan and think through the lesson and how each piece fits together leading to a greater goal was gre

Lesson planning is essential to deliver a satisfying and engaging lesson to students: it has to be clear and simple, so the teacher can refer to it during the lesson. A good teacher needs to adapt the

Why are games important? Why do we play games? How do people play games in the class? Theses are the questions people usually ask. Normally their concern is what they can learn from the games? In my o

This unit is all about teaching productive skills: speaking and writing. It explains the difference between accuracy and fluency, however they are both equally important. There are different types of

Lesson plan is a structure of the course that you will give to your students, a clear guide as to what you want to achieve and how you are going to do it. A good lesson plan generally consists of lear

In this unit we stress the importance of pronunciation and different methods used to teach students the phonology of sentences. Its also essential for a teacher to know the phonemic alphabet as we as

If you want to give effective clases you always have to be aware of your role as teacher. You also have to try always positive and motivating, so that the students feel comfortable. If you do your bes

In this unit on Productive skills, I learned the differences between receptive skills and productive skills. Receptive skills relating to reading and listening. Productive skills refer to speaking an

First of all I would like to mention that I am very happy about successfully mastered units. I am sure that the acquired knowledge will help me in further work and upgrade my teaching skills. Now, som

When we are talking about young learners, two groups are related to it.Groups 1 is defined as children whose age from five to nine,group 2 are those age from nine to thirteen.Here,we are looking at gr

While adult learners are more motivated and learn consciously, young learners are more fun to teach. Young learners keep you on your toes and you have to constantly be coming up with new information a

This unit was about "prononciation", apparently the most neglected aspect of English langage. I gained insight about intonation which is considered to be the variation in volume and pitch in our sente

it's avery very very very good unit full of important information i really love it and i know alot alot alot alot of it which clearly cannt be assured withour practice it practically it's very good in

Think back to the teachers you have had throughout the years. Some may stick out to you more than others: for what reasons? One may think of the greatest teacher(s) they have had and for others, some

5 years ago (2015) 67 countries were considered as having English as their official language, meaning their primary language. 27 more countries were considered having English as a secondary language.

WHY COMPLETE A TEFL COURSE It was not until I was looking at the list of possible topics for this Summative Task that I realized how much I had learned from the two ITTT courses that I have just comp

Why is the role of a Teacher important? The word teacher reminds me of my mother. Our mothers are our first teachers, and we teach others the same lessons we learn from them. As a child, when your m

In my life, I have been an active traveler for close to 10 years now. Most of my traveling was done in my home country, U.S.A., and in western Europe. Traveling to western Europe and hearing people ta

I've taught a little pronunciation before. Though I remember some of the terms, like voiced and unvoiced consonants and fricatives, I'm not sure how helpful that is. I've also found that the phoneti

I love flashcards. Honestly, I really do. For me, they are a never-ending source of games and activities. Nowadays I work as an ESL teacher in a training center and I teach mostly young learners (stud

Grammar is an essential part of English. However, to an EFL student, learning grammar can be challenging. Although there are a lot of rules and exceptions, Grammar helps EFL students correct their mis

For many years, drilling has been used in foreign language classrooms. This approach to language teaching places an emphasis on repeating structural patterns through oral practice. When using the tec

THE IMPORTANCE OF OBSERVED TEACHING PRACTICES The following essay will cover the value and importance of observed teaching practices, on both evaluating new teacher techniques and methods, as well as

Education has marked by the government in advancing the nation. People see education as an important role in offering their country future, they put hope in term of changing a better social life. Educ

The English language is complex, but it becomes even more so when we consider the differences in formality. In most classrooms for second language learners, the ‘formal’ version of English is taug

According to Emerllahu (1998), parents or family as a whole, are one of the direct holders of educational work. The parents ‘role in education is also seeing them as an educator and this represents

Topic: Teaching grammar. Title: How to make grammar lesson more interesting to young learners Grammar is a key segment of language, particular English, in which learners have different views. Some st

I have learned a lot from this course. Before, I was having a hard time constructing sentences since I was really confused with the tenses, but now, I can say that I have the confidence to write artic

This course has been a tremendous help for me in learning how to be a great TEFL teacher.  I had no idea about lesson plans being formed around ESA, but now that I have read about it and how well it