Hardest Word.to Spell

Stephen Krashen differentiates between the concepts of language acquisition and language learning in this way: He likens the process of language acquisition to adolescents and young adults living outside of their native country in a year long exchange program where they attain near native fluency but remain unfamiliar with phonology and/or grammar rules. He links the concept of language learning to the traditional approach of teachers/students in classrooms with specific focus on structure and grammar rules. Krashen summarizes, “Language acquisition does not require extensive use of conscious grammatical rules, and does not require tedious drill.” He further states, “Acquisition requires meaningful interaction in the target language-natural communication-in which speakers...  [Read more]

The English language first came to America, when it was colonised by the British Empire in the late 16th century. Other parts of the world were also colonised by the British Empire, which by 1921 had dominion over 470 to 570 million people, which equated to about one quarter of the world´s population. In the last 400 years, the diversity between the English spoken in the Britsh Isles and the United States, has continued to grow. This has brought about the two dialects known as British English, and American English.The differences between the two dialects include punctuation, grammer, spelling, pronounciation and the formatting of dates and numbers. There are some words which are used in one version of English, but not in another. There are other words which might have two completely...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liyang JiAnyu? Are you interested in teaching English in Changzhou 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. Spelling is difficult for many adults whose native language is English, and even more so for those who learn English as a second language. As a result, there are many ESL individuals who become fluent in speaking and reading, but never become good spellers. An excellent way to spell difficult words is to sound out words that he or she is trying to spell. In some...  [Read more]

The English language first came to America, when it was colonised by the British Empire in the late 16th century. Other parts of the world were also colonised by the British Empire, which by 1921 had dominion over 470 to 570 million people, which equated to about one quarter of the world´s population. In the last 400 years, the diversity between the English spoken in the Britsh Isles and the United States, has continued to grow. This has brought about the two dialects known as British English, and American English. The differences between the two dialects include punctuation, grammer, spelling, pronounciation and the formatting of dates and numbers. There are some words which are used in one version of English, but not in another. There are other words which might have two...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Datonghu Guanliqu? 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. 5 activities with flash cards Flash cards on its own is an easy method to apply when teaching beginners, teenagers even adults because they can match the words to the pictures and and it's an easy way to remember new vocabulary . I think this is the best way of acquiring a new word of a second language because identification and recognition is the key. -1 Ask,...  [Read more]

Giving English to an American is like giving sex to a child. He knows it´s important but he doesn´t know what to do with it. Adam Cooper (19th century) The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language. Oscar Wilde There are more varieties of English than just British and American English, however these are the two which are most commonly taught in EFL and ESL programs. Of the two, American English, for a variety of reasons has become the more dominant. Its influence has been growing steadily since World War Two as American economic, military and political power has expanded. Globalisation and the expansion of the Western, and in particular, the American way of life has heavily contributed to this. There are numerous ways...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Fuxing 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. 1. Circle Pass: The students and the teacher sit in a circle. The teacher starts by passing a picture card to the student on his left, saying, “This is a horse.” The student takes the card and passes it to the next student, saying, “This is a horse.” The card is passed around the circle. When the card returns to the teacher, the teacher puts that card aside...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in HAtuda Muchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Hulunbei'er Shi — Hulunbuir? 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. Reading as we all know is a receptive skill and can be defined as something presented in written symbols and the readers get meaning or information from that written text. It not only requires looking at symbols but also requires the skill of speaking to pronounce the words that we read. So, teaching reading requires not only words awareness, but...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in DelingshAn 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. I have worked at a school where we had a project with our sister city in France. They sent students here to immerse in our language and culture, while we sent students there to do the same thing. I have helped with fundraising for them along with raising money for our own students. I be came very close with the teacher that was in charge over...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jinghe 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. 22. Peculiarities of the English Language For someone learning English as a second language, it must be easy to get discouraged once they stumble upon its various peculiarities. As a native speaker, we go about our day not giving a thought to the many ways in which we navigate our way through its peculiarities without so much as skipping a beat. English has a number...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in XinjiAngkou 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 a student learning English as a second language one thing they may notice is the difference in the accents between British English and American English, the difference is rather pronounced considering it has been less than two hundred and fifty years since the American Revolution. The American accent is likely to be more familiar to many students, thanks to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huiping 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. Until the 1990s British English (BE) was considered the only model for ESL learners in most countries, over the last 3 decades however American English (AE) has come to be considered a usable and effective model for ESL teachers and learners (Benson, 1989). Having said that, a non-English speaker might be confused and wonder what the differences are between BE and...  [Read more]

Phonetics has been defined by Roach (1992) as the 'scientific study of speech' (Roach, 1992: 81.) It is concerned with how speech sounds are formed, how we use them in our spoken language and how we can record these speech sounds using written symbols. Phonology on the other hand has been defined by Roach (1992) as 'the study of the sound systems of languages' (Roach, 1992: 82.) According to Roca and Johnson (1999), the way in which we speak is somewhat similar to playing a recorder. This is because when you play a recorder you have to blow air from your lungs, as you do when you speak. However, to play a tune, you cannot simply blow air into the recorder; you must have your fingers over specific holes. Therefore, when we speak, we have to interfere with the air that comes out of our...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yanhe 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. There are many instances within teaching ESL for which flashcards can be used, and their use is often preferable, especially with regard to young learners who are more likely to respond to images than descriptions. Below are five activities that can used within an ESL context, and all can be used in classes with a large number of students. The first activity is a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tuoshi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiantao, Tianmen, Qianjiang & S? 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 Importance of Teaching Vocabulary: One of the things of the English language that can make English hard to get to grips with. Vocabulary knowledge is highly correlated with reading comprehension and reading achievement. Vocabulary is required for students to achieve cognitive academic language proficiency. All good reasons to make sure...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yuxi 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. Listening section in any English exam is considered to be the easiest for some and to be the hardest for the others. Why do these opinions split so much and how to make listening effective for teaching English for exams? The answer is in the top-down and bottom-up listening skills. In real life when students are talking to their friends in the bar they rely on their...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lingjiaohu Guanliqu? 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. Many teachers of the English language, both young and old at secondary school level are faced with the uphill task of designing a course structure. They often find designing a progression as a real Herculean task. As a secondary school student I took English language courses with teachers who in most cases used just the prescribed text books page after page....  [Read more]

One of the worst teaching experience is having a class come to an abrupt halt while someone searches a dictionary for a specific word, one usually not found in the end anyway. The problem of using dictionaries as a crutch could be rectified by not allowing the use of them in a lesson at all. The great art of circumlocution could be used instead, albeit kicking and screaming. Those experiences of being derailed by frantic dictionary searches would make any ESL teacher shudder and swear off dictionaries entirely. Should native language to English language dictionaries be banned altogether' Some would argue that using dictionaries is a good technique to use in the classroom. One that actually helps to create a more independent learner ( www.tefl.net/teacher_training). The key, or the...  [Read more]

One of the worst teaching experience is having a class come to an abrupt halt while someone searches a dictionary for a specific word, one usually not found in the end anyway. The problem of using dictionaries as a crutch could be rectified by not allowing the use of them in a lesson at all. The great art of circumlocution could be used instead, albeit kicking and screaming. Those experiences of being derailed by frantic dictionary searches would make any ESL teacher shudder and swear off dictionaries entirely. Should native language to English language dictionaries be banned altogether? Some would argue that using dictionaries is a good technique to use in the classroom. One that actually helps to create a more independent learner ( www.tefl.net/teacher_training). The key, or the...  [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. This unit discusses the productive skills, Speaking and Writing. The skill of writing can sometimes be overlooked in TEFL classes because it is often relegated to homework that doesn't get done. With writing, you want students to be able to write the letters well, spell words correctly and use proper punctuation and layout for the task. In speaking, pronunciation is much more important than in writing since English is...  [Read more]

All of my life I've been told that English is one of the most difficult languages on Earth to learn, and I should thank my lucky stars that it was my first language and I would never have to go through the agony of learning it later in life. Of course, I thought this was B.S. when I first heard it; after all, I learned English when I was like three years old. How hard could it be'It wasn't until I began to learn another language, Spanish, that it began to dawn on me just how convoluted and peculiar some parts of our language are. In Spanish, if you can say a word, you can spell it. That's it. Sound it out and you've got it. But English is chock full of all these funky, weird rules for spelling like I before E except after C. Okay, you got that' Now you can spell anything, right' But what...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huangtuling Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yingkou 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 was by far one of the most interesting units. I actually spend a lot of time thinking about the sounds we make and how they don't relate at all to how we spell words in my daily life. I have actually made my own phonetic script that I play with all the time so reading the international script came to me quite easy and it was pretty fun. I also find it...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tiantai Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changchun 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 is the hardest part o the module and it wasn't easy for me to answer the questions. However, as I tried to keep on repeating the videos I've downloaded, I figured out the purpose and eventually able to understand the gist of this section. This is the hardest part o the module and it wasn't easy for me to answer the questions. However, as I tried to keep on...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shuangtai Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yingkou 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 dealt with teaching pronunciation to students. This lesson was very difficult as there is the phonemic alphabet and that was and is the hardest part for me to try and remember the different symbols that go with the sounds. It is a lesson I will be revisiting many times and studying to try and get it mastered. This lesson dealt with teaching...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shiwen Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Fushun 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 important to develop the productive skills of speaking and writing. Speaking can be used in many forms for example talking with a friend, competing in debate or telling a story whereas writing can be used for writing letters, writing novels or planning stories. If these two skills are not developed and drilled over and over again, people will struggle with new...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in LianzhuAng 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. I learned the importance of how the breakdown the sounds work in learning the English language. For instance, even the rhythm and where you put the emphasis in a sentence can entire change its meaning. Also, the order of letters and sounds can make for some tricky instances where sounds are joined together or simply removed completely. The phonetic alphabet is a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liangtian Zhen? 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. In this section we learn about teaching proper pronunciation. We learned about the difference between articulation, stress and pronunciation. An emphasis is placed on phonetic symbols. We learn about how the mouth makes certain sounds. I found this chapter to be the hardest of the book. It isn't easy learning about phonology. In this section we learn about...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jinlong 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. Out of all the tenses I think the future tenses are the hardest ones for me. Usually I just go with what feels right to me. But if I have to stop and think about it then I tend to mess up more. In this unit I looked over the usages carefully so I can remember them. Out of all the tenses I think the future tenses are the hardest ones for me. Usually I just go with...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Quankou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jiujiang 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 believe that this is one of the hardest lessons in the TEFL so far because it all builds up from previous questions relating to other aspects of the entire program. However, this lesson is extremely useful to understand so a teacher can learn where and when a new concept is appropriate and suitable for students in different phases of their education. I believe...  [Read more]

  Shem is from the USA and is currently living in Japan having previously taught English in Africa. In this TEFL review Shem tells how he really enjoyed taking the online TEFL course with ITTT and recommends the course with tutor support and videos as he found the videos to be really helpful in preparing him for what to expect in the English teaching world. 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 lesson on phonology and pronunciation discusses the...  [Read more]