English Categories

There are two broad categories of situations in which non-native English speakers may learn English. Multi-lingual classes are with students from various nationalities normally in a country where English is the native language. This may be considered as teaching 'English as a Second Language (ESL). Monolingual classes are usually in the students' home country and this context is 'English as a Foreign Language' (EFL). In multi-lingual classes the students are living in an English speaking country and are exposed to the language, either for a limited period of time or permanently. In class they must use English to communicate even if there are some other students with the same native language (L1). The teacher will probably ask them to sit separately, and even if he/she speaks their native...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Kalaqin Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chaoyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. In the process of language teaching, listening, speaking, reading and writing are the process of comprehensive learning. The study and explanation of this unit are mainly based on listening and reading. The other parts are very important. The categories of listening and reading are divided into two categories. One is purposeful learning, the other is enjoyment of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Danfenglinyeyouxian Gongsi? Are you interested in teaching English in Yanbianchao Xianzu Zizhizhou? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Unit eleven is focused on teaching receptive skills. Language contains four basic skills. These skills are as follows: reading, listening, speaking, and writing. These four skills can be split into another set of categories. These two categories are receptive and productive. Receptive skills are reading and listening. Productive skills...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shanmen Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Siping Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. The four basic skills of language are reading and listening then speaking and writing. They are all important. The reasons for reading and listening are broken down in to two separate categories. Those are for purpose and for entertainment. Some times you may use both reasons simultaneously. For example, when reading a tour book that you find both entertaining but...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in BAli Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yangzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Groans and sighs involuntarily erupt from students when teachers mention flashcards. I know. I’ve groaned with the rest at the thought of yet another mindless repetition and recitation. I begin wondering what’s for dinner, what happens next in the story I’m reading, or what I’m going to do when class finishes. But what student objects to playing games? I’ve...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xinzhan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhoukou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. I have been teaching english to chinese students for the past three years and I have faced many challenges during this time. These challenges also provided me with an opportunity to explore this field further and know more about this. I have always believed in continuous learning and self improvemnet. This course rendered me an opportunity to expore this area and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tonghua Shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Tonghua Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| Teaching receptive skills unit I have found very interesting In unit 11, we learned about the two receptive language skills, listening and reading I learnt about the four basic skills in any language, the receptive skills which are reading and listening and the productive skills are...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in TiAncheng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xianning Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Introduction English teachers have a significant role to play in a classroom. They are involved in engaging students to maintain a focus on the language. However, the major roles of the English teacher in a classroom are classified into five premium categories. These categories involve their roles as a controller, organizer, assessor, participant, and a helper...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in HuAndun Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Lianyungang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Is Teaching Slang and Idioms Important for ESL Students? A language is an extension and reflection of culture. Learning a language entails opening oneself to the culture and nuances from where the language comes from. It has been said that people who learn a language by immersing themselves in its day to day form and use, usually learn the language faster. There...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in YushAnpu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shaoyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Tenses- Usually it creates tense for many ESL students during communication. It defines and differentiates the situation by time. Is the time important in communication? Yes, it is. The wrong usage of tenses changes the exact meaning of the situation, what the speaker is trying to convey. So focusing tenses in grammar is more essential than others. Still, the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in HuitAng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changsha Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. There are many resources for use in the classroom at the disposal of an ESL/EFL teacher. Broadly speaking, these are divided into two categories: authentic materials, and non-authentic (or created) materials. The distinction between these two categories is that authentic materials are those that have been produced in the world for a purpose that is not teaching,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tinghuxinqu? Are you interested in teaching English in Yancheng Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Teaching a foreign language was always a wanted and needed thing for many generations so far. Learning English has always been a goal for many people worldwide. The learners’ age varies from 4-5 years old to 60 and above. The majority of schools which offer courses have a structured way of dividing their students – by the age and knowledge. But when testing the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hongge'ergAole Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xilinguole Meng — Xilin Gol? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. At first I signed up for this course only because I have been teaching math in English at an international school in China for some time. Students come from all over the world, including the United States, Germany, Brazil, etc. In class, I happen to meet the students when they correct my English. And since it is cross-cultural education, in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ShAdaogou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Educators of the English language must take into consideration a diverse range of variables when planning and teaching. An often forgotten factor for novice teachers is the impact that setting will have on their students’ language learning. Within the realm of setting there are two general categories, English as a Second Language (ESL) and...  [Read more]

ESSAY ORGAN'ZAT'ON: In this essay I want to discuss cultural sensitiivty in the classroom. In order to speak intelligently about the topic we first need to to know what we are talking about. Let us begin by defining our terms, beginning with culture. After doing that we can then apply these terms to classroom experience.WHAT IS CULTURE' Anthropologists most commonly use the term 'culture' to refer tot he universal human capacity to classify, codify and communicate their experiences symbolically. This capacity is long been taken as a defining feature of the genus Homo. However, primatologists such as Jane Goodall have identified aspects of culture among our closest relatives 'n the animal k'ngdom. In order to resolve this we can say that symbolic experiences while not exclusive to...  [Read more]

Quite often, the terms English as a Second Language (ESL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) are used interchangeably to describe English language instruction to non-native speakers. However, it is becoming increasingly more well known that the two contexts are quite different, demanding the teacher approach and execute different teaching methodologies in the classes. In an ESL setting, the class is likely to be multilingual and be completely immersed in the language by living in the culture of the target language. On the other hand, in the EFL setting, the class is typically monolingual and living in their own country (Brown 2001).In Teaching by principles, author H. Douglas Brown explains that 'it is useful to consider the pedagogical implications for a continuum of contexts...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in JiAoxi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changsha Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This essay focuses on what “multiple intelligence” is, a comparison between multiple intelligences and the traditional notion of intelligence, what these multiple intelligence categories (“modalities") are, and their significance in the classroom context. "Multiple intelligence" was a theory developed by professor Howard Gardner in the early 1980s to describe...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GAojimiao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jingzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. For many people who travel, considering the cultural norms of whatever country you are visiting is helpful in ensuring a smooth trip. It is quite unfortunate that travelers from the United States often have a bad reputation for being loud, inconsiderate, and oblivious. While this is the case, it is also the case for a lot of people from various other countries....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wanlong Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Tonghua Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. In this unit, I learnt about the two different categories of skills that a language student would need to grasp, the two categories are receptive and productive. This unit focuses on receptive skills, which are reading and listening, we also talked about the different skills involved in effective reading/listening such as predictive, scanning, skimming etc.. Also,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Miandu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhuzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Teaching is a great art which needs a lot of work and patience from the person who wants to become one. It takes time, hard work and experience to become a valuable teacher. I think that for being a great teacher you have to be gifted with the needed qualities, it is not enough to only study a specific course or to get a specific degree, you have to feel it in your...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Santuanjixie Linchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Songyuan Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit focuses on teaching receptive skills which discusses two of the four basic skills in any language which is reading and listening. It elaborates the importance of the two skills into two widely-ranging categories which are for a purpose and for entertainment. It also tackles how to read and listen by giving different examples. This unit focuses...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liuguanyingzi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chaoyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. The unit focus about the reading and listening, it is part of teaching receptive skills.it divide to different categories like for a purpose, for entertainment. there is also different types on how we read and listen there is a predictive skills that focus on predicting the content of the article, there is also a scanning that only listen or read a specific...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Laoyemiao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chaoyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. The four basic skills in any language were told and this unit was focused on receptive skill plus reading and listening. reasons and categories of reading and listening were mentioned. special skills that needed for reading and listening was taught. Approaches for language difficulties were mentioned in this unit. how to choose a topic of reading and listening is...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiping Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Nanyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Teaching of Business English is a fast growing section of English teaching in the world. With English becoming more globalized, the demand to use English in the business sector is constant. There are several certificates and programs designed for learning to teach English in general or for specific target groups such as young learners or working adults. Businesses...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jingxingnong Muchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Yinchuan Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This lesson covered the importance of teaching pronunciation, as it is often neglected despite being one of the more difficult aspects of English for them to grasp. I thought this unit was one of the more challenging due to the complicated sub categories of articulation, though learning these can be very helpful to teach students how to pronounce particular...  [Read more]

  In this video Linda breaks down the difference between "look", "see" and "watch". The differences surrounding these three words can be quite difficult to understand for non-native English learners. However, this video looks at the three words in detail breaking down exactly how to differentiate between them. 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 unit 14 is about different ways of evaluating students'levels and progress.There are a number of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xinglin Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Tonghua Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit focuses on the receptive skills of reading and listening and it highlights the two main categories of reading and listening. These are for a purpose and for entertainment. Again, it outlines a number of specialist skills readers and listeners adopt when reading and listening placing much emphasis on the fact that reading and listening are not just matters...  [Read more]

  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 2 focuses on teaching and learning aspects. It explains the teacher's roles, which are varied, and the different categories of learners. An explanation of the teaching of adults and the advantages and disadvantages follows. The module then moves on to examine the pros and cons of the ‘one to one' approach, followed by the teaching of groups. After this, the unit provides a summary of the four language skills...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Da'A Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ganzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. In this unit, we talked about different categories of future tense including 'present simple' and 'present continuous' and how they all differ in terms of usage. I learnt how to clearly and effectively show and describe all the types of future tense as well as knowing what kind of common mistakes students tend to make. Also, this unit contained ideas and tips on how to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qinghua Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Nanyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Modal auxiliary verbs add meaning to the main verb. They express a number of ideas such as obligation, possibility, permission, ability, advice. In passive voice the performer of the action is not important or not known. Only transitive verbs are used in the passive. There are 3 categories of clauses: independent, dependent and relative. A relative clause is a...  [Read more]