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The human mind loves simplicity and to generalize complicated matters. Talking about non native English speaking would assume that at least our English would be on the same level. The truth is that even among native English speaking people there is huge difference between understanding and knowledge about the language. That?s why I can only share my thoughts on the course. Quick look on my background, I am 22 years old guy from Sweden that grew up with two Swedish parents. Understanding the course A few days in the course we were asked to perform a simple task. We had one hour and I got in the same group as two native English speaking persons that both were 10 to 20 years older then me and with teaching background. We spent our first 30 min to discuss what we were supposed to do....  [Read more]

TEFL or Teaching English as a Foreign Language refers to teaching English to students for whom it is not their mother tongue. TEFL can take place in English-speaking regions, for example in language schools or summer camps or before the start of a university degree, but usually occurs in the student´s own country. There, TEFL can be either within the state school system, or private, either in an after-hours language school or with a one-on-one tutor. The teachers may be native or non-native speakers of English. (Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) Taking a TEFL course as a non-native English speaker was a great experience, with a wild awakening. Life has a way of bringing surprises, not bad or good, they become what you make them to be, and the outcome depends on how you...  [Read more]

(From own experience as a volunteer English and French teacher, different forums and talks with other native and non-native teachers)All over the world more and more EFL schools advertise their courses highlighting that they only employ native speakers and reject applicants on the ground that it is the customers' expectation, opening the gates wide for native teachers and giving more obstacles to non-native ones (until they find themselves in a desperate need for a teacher'). But is it really the customers' expectation' Unfortunately teaching ability is not part of the mother tongue package! Non-native teachers could be compared with young new teachers of any subject they have just graduated: depending on their teaching ability, their skills in the subject, their personality, their...  [Read more]

  This video is part of our video series on "Evaluation and Testing of Students". In this video, we look at placement tests. This type of test is also referred to as a level test. Its goal is to find out the current level of the student tested. A placement test generally tests all four skills (reading, listening, writing and speaking) and progresses from easy to hard questions. 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 discussed the two productive...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Pengpo Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Luoyang 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. Speaking and writing are skills that are very different but both used to communicate. In speaking, accuracy and fluency are equally important. Usually accuracy based activities are controlled by the teacher and when the students have grasped a concept accurately they are then encouraged to be creative with the language skill through a fluency activity. Writing on the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Erniusuokou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shenyang 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. Through the study of this unit, I learned the importance of teaching methods, speaking and writing exercises. When practicing speaking language, the emphasis is on fluency, accuracy in writing. Generally speaking, writing is more difficult than speaking. It involves not only spelling, grammar and punctuation, but also sentence structure. For students who learn...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Fengjia Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Fuxin 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. Unit 12 is about how to teach productive skills which involve writing and speaking. I discovered that these two skills are equally important and should be equal treatment like listening and reading. Based on my synthesis of the previous and current topic, I found out that effective receptive practice has a positive bearing on productive skill. For example, good...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in XiaojiAcun Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yongzhou 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. As a teacher our role is to be the leader in the classroom, however, this does not mean that we should be speaking in front of the class the entirety of the class time. As the native speaking teacher, it is important for the students to hear our voices and hear our accents but what is equally important is that the students are all engaged in the lesson and that...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Luoyixi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiangxi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizho? 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 building a strong foundation for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), there are many items to consider. Some of these include: parts of speech, theories and methodologies, tenses, lesson planning, and testing. One of the most important parts of this process is teaching productive skills, including speaking...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GuAnhuan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changde 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 students to be able to communicate effectively, they need to be proficient in the four language skills. Productive skills are known SPEAKING and READING, then you have your receptive skills known as READING and LISTENING. All four language skills are of importance and should be combined during lessons as they are all of importance to teach students to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in WAntouqiao 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. Many Chinese students face the common problem that although they spent 10 years studying English at school, they can't pronounce an English sentence correctly, and they are not confident enough to communicate in the language. Our students they struggle to speak in English, they are good at writing and reading , but lack of the ability speaking , even though they...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chencelou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huanggang 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. Speaking is one of the most important skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing). We do not only help students to understand, write and read it, but also speak it in a fluent way. Teaching speaking skill for a mixed-ability classrooms is not easy. When we are teaching a classes with has students who are clearly of different levels. They may have different...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in SaihantalA 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. To communicate in any language efficiently, people should know the skills of that language. What are these skills? How many skill types are there? Why is teaching these skills in an ESL/EFL classroom important for ESL teachers? These questions will be answered in this summative task. Skills are ways in which people express their ideas in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shuxun Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Nantong 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. It is the fact, for many years in Vietnam, that Vietnamese students can easily complete grueling written tests, they cannot communicate in English though. Besides the lack of confidence and practice environment, one major reason for their English communication incapacity is their poor pronunciation, particularly the lack of ending sounds. In fact, when you ask...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yanglinshi 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. In the process of teaching teachers need to understand each of their students to manage the class effectively. for example, how to group students in a way that maximizes group performance or how to arrange reasonable class activities for students to understand the purpose of the lesson and achieve the main goal that the teacher given in every lesson. problem...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xindian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xuzhou 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. Accent and pronunciation. These two words are the dream of every person learning a foreign language to sound like people from television, actors and native speakers. I remember perfectly well how my friends from college assumed that any of them, speaking in English in a bar or restaurant, would be taken as a British man thanks to their careful and precise...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Guanyao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huanggang 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. Speaking and writing are substantially different however they both are used for the same purpose – to communicate. In many ways writing is the more difficult skill, requiring a greater level of accuracy. When speaking, any misunderstandings can be cleared up ‘on the spot’. Speaking requires a greater degree of fluency. The teacher must create the need and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xichang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Nantong 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. When you are a new teacher it is easy to fall into the habit of talking too much during the lesson, this can be easily done because, in reality, you are the teacher, therefore you teach. This makes complete sense from one standpoint, the students are there to learn English, and you are obviously the model of that language. However, it is essential that we remember...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in SAnzhou 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. Whether you like English or despise it, the English language is definitely here to stay. In fact, there really is no stronger contender right now as a global language, other than English. But how did this happen, why is English now the dominant language in Education, Business and the Media. Well in this essay I am not going to rewrite a history lesson about the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shuangyang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jinzhou 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 learned about speaking and writing. Both are equally important. The majority of the students usually prefer to learn speaking. Also for the teacher is harder to practice writing at school as the activities takes longer and individual time than the speaking. Usually the writing is given as a homework. For the teaching aspect you can correct speaking...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qianfeng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huai'an 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. Summative task: 82. Foreign language experience I live by the expression, “experience is the best teacher,” and my foreign language experience has truly been the best teacher for me. I am currently doing volunteer work at a school in Moldova, Eastern Europe, where I teach several subjects, one of those is teaching English as a foreign language. I have benefited...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tongerbao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Liaoyang 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 is about teaching the productive skills - speaking and writing. A speaking lesson can include accuracy activities and fluency activities. Accuracy activities focus on producing correct language, while fluency activities focus on students having creative freedom in their speaking. It is important to encourage students to speak and help them be...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ZhushAn 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. The important of English Education is a must especially it is an International recognize language. But not all countries have a benefit or luxuries to learn like other did. Some Asian countries like Vietnam though students start to begin their English education very early at school, yet they find themselves helpless when it comes to speaking...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ShuAngzhu Linchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Shiyan 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 important of English Education is a must especially it is an International recognize language. But not all countries have a benefit or luxuries to learn like other did. Some Asian countries like Vietnam though students start to begin their English education very early at school, yet they find themselves helpless when it comes to speaking English. These are...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shigang 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. As we know of the importance of the receptive skills, that is, reading and listening. We know that speaking and writing is equally important. I learned that accuracy is related to writing and fluency is linked with speaking. But it is interesting to know that even speaking activities can be accuracy based. This is because pronunciation is also an important aspect....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liguan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dalian 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 talks more about the productive skills: the speaking and the writing. Although, students of ESL study English to speak, writing should never be neglected because it is also as important as speaking. Writing requires degree of accuracy while speaking requires fluency. However, accuracy and fluency are both equally important and again one should not be...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chengdong Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Taizhou 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. Speaking English is without any doubt, the number one, best way to learn English. Speaking builds confidence and creates opportunity. A significant problem faced by students in an ESL classroom is a teacher who loves the sound of their own voice. A teacher who spends a significant proportion of the session, speaking limits student speaking time to answering a few...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xinglong Nongchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Dandong 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. Productive skills, also called active skills are writing and speaking - the production of language. There are some obvious differences between writing and speaking, in terms of vocabulary, some grammar structures, spelling and punctuation in writing, pronunciation in speaking etc. Writing, unlike speaking, is not an ability we acquire naturally, not even in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dalianhuaqiaoguoshu Nongchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Dalian 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 discussed the productive skills of speaking and writing. In a communicative activity the teacher needs to create the need and desire in order for the students to want to communicate. When writing, the emphasis is on accuracy and is part of the study phase. When speaking, the emphasis is on fluency and is part of the activate phase. There...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Changping Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiangyang Shi — Xiangfan? 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 is going to discuss about why teaching productive skills to leaners is important and some major defining terms. Teaching is the passing on of knowledge and ideas to a particular person or group especially about politics, religion, science or society. The ability to use a language is called language skill. When we learn a language we...  [Read more]