Esl Teaching Techniques

Pronunciation instruction is perhaps the most difficult aspect of English teaching. There are no simple answers as to how, when, or how long, it should be taught. However, this article hopes to present a different way of teaching the phonetics of English. My undergraduate work was not in English or even general education, but the performance of music. I learned from experts in the production and education of sound, and I feel the techniques they used may be applied to the instruction of English phonetics. By utilizing techniques used in college level music performance education, it is hoped a teacher may improve the effectiveness of phonetic instruction in their English class.While a student in one of the leading tuba studios in the country, my teachers utilized one underlying philosophy....  [Read more]

This research article will highlight and investigate two major aspects of preparing and starting an EFL course to beginner-level students. They are; 1) the approaches (i.e. the mindset, theoretical beliefs and methodologies that a teacher applies to the course, short and long term), 2) the techniques - (i.e. the specific assignments, arrangements and tools/aids utilized to carry out the teacher´s approaches and achieve the student´s goals). The article will move through the various, early stages of planning and teaching an EFL Beginners Course, in (roughly) chronological order. Its focus will only be to shed light on common, recommendable teaching approaches and techinques for an EFL Beginners Course. Along the way, a teacher - in reality - would encounter more, and have to be prepared...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shuiche Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Loudi 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 English as a foreign language has some very specific techniques as opposed to general classroom instruction. Just a few of these techniques include not correcting students immediately, encouraging a more open classroom and using presentations or group work to present material. Like any teaching, it is critical to get the students engaged, but with ESL there...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ChagAnnuoer Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chifeng 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 summative essay I would like to discuss the various types of teaching styles and how they support different types learners. As an ESL (English as a second language) instructor, it is important to recognize the intelligence of your student who speaks another language and may very well be highly educated. It is very different from teaching grammar school...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Luohansi Zhongchuchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Jingmen 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. Although there are hundreds of methodologies for an online English teacher, I am going to be focusing on five techniques that are favorable among the young learners. The five techniques are: 1. Total Physical Response. 2. Introducing Items of Cultural and Personal Relevance. 3. Using Authentic Materials. 4. Displaying Visuals and Realia. 5. Remembering the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Baiji 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. While I have been teaching in South korea for the past year, I have learned through trial and error a lot of the tips talked about in here about dealing with and motivating students. However, I was still not very well versed in the real methodology of properly teaching ESL ? techniques, receptive and productive skills, phonology, etc. So learning about the more...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Taiqiu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shangqiu 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?m not a native english speaker. Even though it?s the forth language for me to learn, I?ve been using it on everyday basis for the last 16 years, including postsecondary education. It?s been a long and steep learning curve for me, and in the process I managed to get mixed up and be less careful with english grammar. In this course I?ve learn not only teaching...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shuitianba 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. Whether you are a seasoned professional starting a new year at a school you’ve taught at for years, or you’re teaching your very first ESL class, the first day teaching can be very intimidating. Teaching English as a second language, whether in your home country or in a non-English speaking country, can be especially difficult due to the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shanba Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Bayannao'er Shi — Bayan Nur? 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 English can be challenging, especially if you do not have the right materials, support, or educational background that may include classroom managing, teaching skills, and English grammar. When I began working as an ESL teacher, I had never taken any educational courses on how to perform this job. While I did have experience working with...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in WusAn Nongchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhumadian 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 am a lifelong learner! Encouraging a similar philosophy among all the students I teach. Learning is my passion! Therefore, I take every opportunity to improve myself. Many humans behave like they know everything. This is a misguided perception. Rather, developing a curious mind is better. It is because of man’s desire to know more than we have made many...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in TangzhuAng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhengzhou 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. First of all, this course gave me an understanding on different teaching methodologies. It pointed out the disadvantages and advantages of all, thus I could see what methods are the most appropriate in certain situations. Personally, I greatly sympathize with the ESL methods. I like the idea of starting and finishing with activities that engage and activate the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Nanmenxia Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Haidong 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 about how to speak in English the right way. Pronunciation and Phonology are both important but at the same time quite neglected in teaching English especially to basic learners. Native English teachers of English consider this easy and natural as they grew up with it but lack the confidence in teaching. A good teacher considers pronunciation as...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Panlongcheng Jingji KAifAqu? Are you interested in teaching English in Wuhan 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. Since I am still relatively new to teaching, I felt it was important to reassure myself on why I choose this career path as well as my efficacy in the role. Self-monitoring is extremely important in both our personal and professional lives. Self-regulation leads to personal growth and that is invaluable in our lives. I believe that the teacher needs to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Siping Shi? 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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| If you want to give effective clases you always have to be aware of your role as teacher The first video was to show examples of common mistakes made by teachers with little to no training and experience In teaching, a teacher has to be friendly and try to build rapport with the students...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ShuAngsheng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Tongliao 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 intrinsically a reflective vocation. Teachers cannot teach effectively if they do not analyse their approaches, methods and, if necessary, adapt to suit the students’ needs at the time. My experience in teaching in England has taught me that sometimes methods do not work, or students need a different method to be taught efficiently. In this...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Songlou 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. Did you know that over one billion people speak English in the world? (Ask google) Moreover, most of these people are not native English speakers. That is why, if you want to be a language teacher, your right choice will be teaching English. I noticed that after completing the course in the TEFL program I will have better opportunities as the program is accredited....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in JinshAn 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. Jenn Cashman ITTT Course Topic 47: Motivation in the classroom February 10, 2020 How to Motivate Students in the Classroom While many students will anticipate the excitement of a new class with foreign English teachers, the excitement and newness will wear off over time, and it is the teacher’s responsibility to keep their minds active and engaged. In any kind...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Maliang 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. Ornella Hemingway Summative Task Topic: How to teach English to children online Aspects to consider in making lessons fun and effective for children learning English online The following essay is based on my personal experience of teaching one-to-one English lessons to young children (ages ranging from 5-14), through online platforms and companies....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lushui 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. Topic: Why complete a TEFL course As a teacher with the passion of teaching young learners, experiencing and exploring new language and culture in other parts of the globe, I have come to realize that, to meet my career expectation and needs, I need a certification to kick start. I strongly believe Teaching English as a Foreign Language(TEFL) certification will...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liji Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shangqiu 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 learned a great deal from this tefl course, both about teaching and english grammar. I believe that learning the ESA method and planning several lesson plans will help significantly when I am trying to prepare to teach a class. I think that I will also use the management of the classroom techniques and discipline strategies that were presented in the TEFL...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Daye Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhengzhou 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 learned a great deal in this course. My english grammar was refreshed and sharpened throughout the course. I had some experience in intensive english grammar, but it had been years since I had looked at those texts. This course focused me on the need for a strong grasp of advanced grammar to be a successful ESL teacher. The teaching and lesson planning...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Sunkou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Puyang 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 arguments on the number of tenses existing. Many linguists believe that there are only two tenses: present and past. However, from the point of ESL teaching, we should take another approach that states twelve tenses. Talking about the present tense we should distinguish between such aspects as simple, continuous and perfect. Each of these aspects has...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Baihepu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hengyang 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 the past couple months, I have worked as an ESL teacher for the company Qkids. I took this course in order to obtain a certificate and meet the Chinese national standards. Even though I took it for that purpose only, it has been a very informative and helpful class. I have learned so much that I can apply to my own online ESL classes. In my experience, and from...  [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. In this Unit, I learned about the receptive skills: Reading and listening. I learned about the different type of skills within reading and listening. They are Predictive skills, Scanning, Skimming, Detailed information and deduction from context. I would like a more thorough in-depth look into teaching scanning and skimming techniques as I find it very important for ESL learners especially Japanese native speakers as...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Haozhai 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. This unit focused on a variety of potential problems in ESL classrooms, such as the use of students' native language, reluctance to participate, large class sizes, mixed-ability classes, and difficulties with listening texts. The unit also provided a number of techniques to try when teaching the first class of a course (particularly with a new, rather than existing,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Daqiao Zhen? 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. When teaching beginner students there are a host of methods and techniques that can be used to effectively engage students and allow for successful learning. This piece will focus on some of the methods and techniques I have used previously when teaching beginners, as well as some of the techniques detailed in the previous units of this course. From my own personal...  [Read more]

In 1904 the French government commissioned psychologist Alfred Binet to find a method to distinguish between children's levels of intelligence. The purpose was to put the 'intellectually inferior' into special schools where they could receive more individual attention1. So begins the journey of testing and analysing scores, consequently giving us an outline or a picture of a person's intelligence. The Intelligent Quotient is a 'score derived from a set of standardised tests' (http://wikipedia.org/). The notion of measuring a person's intelligence, and therefore, a person's potential, may seem limited to some, as it did to Howard Gardner- professor of education at Harvard University. Gardner argues that 'pencil and paper IQ tests do not capture the full range of human intelligences'...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gupi 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. Why punishment may appear in class There are different circumstances that may trigger the teacher to consider punishing the young learners. Like having bad behaviors, ruin the learning environment of the class. And, because of the concentration-time to children, it is short. So that they will make some noise or run out of the seat during the class. Also, maybe they feel...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jingji KAifAqu? Are you interested in teaching English in Loudi 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. While English is a popular language used globally, people learn and use the language differently a feature that informs the techniques employed in teaching the language. A Chinese immigrant living in the United States with his parents, for example, will learn English as a Second Language (ESL). Such a learner would learn in an environment where English is the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in LamawAn Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huhehaote Shi — Hohhot? 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. Games in The Classroom Games traditionally were played outside the classroom as a break from learning. They now are known to be powerful learning strategies earning a respected place inside the classroom. Being fun and interactive, ESL teachers integrate them into lessons to engage and activate students. Included in this essay are some activities as...  [Read more]