How To Teach English As Second Language

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ChengguAn Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Pingdingshan 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 16 taught me about conditionals and reported speech. In the first part, it went through the five main conditionals; zero, first, second, third and mixed - their form and the usage as well as typical mistakes and errors. Examples of teaching ideas and tips on how to teach conditionals was provided. The second part of the unit explained the concept of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Daitou Zhen? 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. Teaching a foreign language can be a challenge in and of itself. It can be a whole other challenge when teaching children. Throughout my TEFL Young Learner’s course I have learned a lot about how to teach young students English as a second language. This is the best thing I’ve learned throughout my TEFL course because I spend a lot of time with children, mostly...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yimin Sumu? 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. Differences between teaching ESL and EFL There are different ways on how to teach English. To be able to teach English in the United States a person would need to traditionally embark on a bachelor's or master's degree that focuses on a teaching license. Once you have this license you can teach in schools to children from the kinder garden up to high...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gaomiao 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. Unit 13 tackles the difficult topic of phonology and why it is important, as well as why it can be difficult to teach. It goes into the anatomy of speech and how sounds are created, which can be confusing as the teacher may be so used to making the sounds that it is hard to describe, or the student may not understand how a sound is made because they do not use that...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Fogesi Zhen? 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 not unfamiliar with teaching. I taught for two years at the collegiate level for freshman and junior year history courses, but I was thrown rather head-first into the mire and left to figure it all out for myself. This tefl course, however, has given me an excellent break-down of not only how to teach english, but really how to teach. I plan on printing out...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ChAohua 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. As a person who has grown up in a country where english is the native language, one tends to pick up bad habits and take things for granted that non-english speakers do not always understand. The tefl course has allowed me to identify areas that need to be explained to non-english students, areas that may not have occurred to me. The TEFL course has not only...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhuge Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xuchang 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 quite a bit and have gained a large amount from this course. The first thing I gained was a deeper understanding of english grammar. Everything I knew on a passive basis, and couldn?t put a name on, I learned from a more actively. This gave me the ability to teach grammar more concretely, and gave me a vocabulary about english grammar that will be...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in LuzhuAng 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. For a long time I have been frustrated about how native english speakers ?know english?, but in many cases are unable to teach it to EFL students because native speakers do not really know the ?rules? of the language, but merely how to use it. In addition to educational theory, the ITTT course has also taught me many rules and mechanics of english grammar, and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ZhuAnqiang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Nanjing 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. What makes a good teacher, specifically a good English teacher? Is it someone who exudes charisma and easily influences others? Is a good English teacher an encyclopedia of knowledge about the language? Or does a good teacher possess a measure of those attributes combined with certain personal qualities? From my experience and study, a good teacher can hold the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yudian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Suizhou 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. Becoming a teacher of any nature, requires a good amount of skills, but becoming an english as a foreign or second language teacher requires a special batch of skills. All types of teachers should have the same general qualities; communication skills, patience, good listening skills, the ability to connect and build relationships with students, hard work ethic,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ShAnhu 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. There are two types of skills involved in language learning and acquisition, receptive skills (reading and listening) and productive skills (writing and speaking). Students tend to cope better with receptive skills than they do having to produce the language. For the purpose of this essay I will discuss reading as a receptive skill; how and why is it important when...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yangfeng Zhen? 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. Bilingual classroom is where students learn a different language from that of their native tongue. This is called SLT (second language teaching) or FLT (foreign language teaching). The most common second or foreign language taught is English. The term ESL (English as a Second language) or EFL (English as a foreign language) is popular in most Asian countries. I...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hancheng 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 find that teaching reported speech can be difficult. This unit helped me make more sense of how this can be taught. In thr past I've found it hard to verbalise to students how to do it properly. Since I have spoken English since a young age, it's something that is learned naturally and not necessarily in thr classroom. It was good practice for me as well to go...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xuefu 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. Introduction: Grammar, as it dictates rules for the formation of a sentence, can be considered to be the most potent tool for communication. Every language, that it does not matter on how every one of the words is formed, relies on grammar to get meanings across. Although grammar has many definitions and may mean differently to different people, this essay focuses on...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shengtiezhong 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've remembered the basic english grammar and my vocabulary has widened. But mainly I've got many ideas how to teach and plan the lessons effectively. What to consider when planning lessons (timing, problems that may arise and how to solve them, different teaching stages etc). There are a lot of example activities. I've got a knowledge about the sources of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in TaohuAshAn 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. What is grammar? Different languages have different grammar rules. How is grammar taught? (EFL: how to teach Chinese students to speak English) What is grammar? Grammar is the rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases and words in a natural language. Simply put, grammar is the general rule of a language. Language is logical; grammar tells us in which...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Menghe Zhen? 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. Why indeed, I asked myself this very question and seriously considered how it would benefit me. Being a native English speaker and having taught within my profession for many years both in my home country and abroad, I wondered how hard it could be transitioning from teaching within the medical field, to multilingual students, to now teaching English. I have...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Heimahe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hainan Zangzu 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. This Section was very interesting to me. I'm interested in the nitty gritty details of linguistics and how to teach them well. At first, I was surprised to find out that pronunciation is often a neglected aspect of teaching english to non-native speakers. However, as I read through the lesson, I started to understand why many teachers skip over these...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Daling 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. In this video unit, I've seen how the classrooms should be taught and more especially how they shouldn't be taught. There is no way you can teach a class in under 40 minutes ,and as I've seen in the first video ,he did it in 20 and must I say it was a poor job that he did. Now in second video he was on point on everything in how to run a smooth class room with...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qitai 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. Before I started this course, I had two big challenges. First of all, since english is not my native language, I did not know if my level of english would deem sufficient to be able to teach it myself. Throughout the course, I did learn a bit of new grammar myself, or at least in a different way than I had before. For instance, the part on modals was refreshing for...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Heichengzi 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. Unit 7: Teaching Receptive Skills I learned about receptive skills, reading and listening, why we read, how we read and what we read, or how we listen. As instructors, we can observe and recognize how our students use their receptive skills and teach accordingly. I also learned about the importance of the topic to teach; it has to be an engaging topic that will...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ZhenleishAnfengjing Guanliju? Are you interested in teaching English in Xinyang 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's amazing how much this course refreshes the grammar that I had forgotten. It's one of those things that you learn once and sort put away in a box in your mind. It was amazing how much dust that box had collected! Since, I wasn't a Linguistics major, I never really thought about grammar and sentence structure. I remember the drills we had in my...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huolong Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xuchang 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. At first I had my doubts about doing an online tefl course, but now after the course I feel it was a good decision. I have learnt how to manage a class, what to teach, how to plan the lesson and how to teach it efficiently. It has been a revision course of english for me. Lots of tense that are not used daily or used unknowingly are more noticeable now. This course...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lidian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xinyang 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 was a lot of information packed into this course. The first thing I noticed about it is that it jumps right into teaching how to teach. In college, I changed my degree from education because none of the classes were teaching how to be a teacher. This course was exactly what I was looking for, and I will have a lot of fun using the knowledge I gained here. There...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wu'er Nongchang? 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. Through this program I have gained many things. Not only learning about the topics and units covered in this course but as well as how to be a better teacher when applying these things in the classroom. Before this course I had a decent understanding of the english language and felt that I could teach it to others that didn't know english. But I really only knew...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in YAling 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. This section provides for mechanisms to teach three components of language i.e. vocabulary (what words mean, when they are used, where they belong, how the words interact with other words, how the word is written and how it is spoken); grammatical structure (what the language means, how and when to use it, forms and patterns in the language, are there any differences...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yuanmao 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. Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) as a course contains a variety of units that are meant to enable an English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher to be prepared for the classroom and everything that they may face. Some of the most important benefits of the course are the units on the three main components of lesson structure, lesson planning, possible...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huangdao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Pingdingshan 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 showed two example videos of a good and a not so good way to teach. It can largely boil down to the teacher and how they present themselves. If the teacher is friendly, warm, and smiling while explaining the lesson bother verbal and by showing images and miming, the students will react much better to that and will be more willing to participate. If...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Changyangpu 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. Native English speakers sometimes take the requirements of the language for granted. English is part of the European language family and most of its words come from Ancient Greek and Latin, which are common in other languages spoken in Europe. However, for students learning the language, English is very hard to learn. It is even more surprising the fact that...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jiqiang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Guyuan 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 unit 13 we learned about a very difficult topic to teach, as most native speakers don't really learn about it unless they study it formally: Pronunciation and Phonology. I took a linguistics class in college, so I was already familiar with the IPA and how to classify sounds (voiced, unvoiced, fricatives, palatal, alveolar, plosive, etc). I did find it useful...  [Read more]