How To Teach English Online

The amount of money you can make teaching English online is determined by a number of factors, including your qualifications, previous experience, and the organization for which you work. A typical hourly rate for online English teachers can range between $15 and $30. If you choose to work through an agency, as most online teachers do, they will most likely take a cut of your pay as a fee for providing you with students and materials. Online English teaching is what you make it. Most online English companies allow you to work as much or as little as you want, so your online English teaching gig can range from part-time side hustle to a full-time career. Online English teacher salaries vary depending on a number of factors, including: Online English teachers typically earn between $10 and...  [Read more]

How much money you can earn teaching English online depends on a variety of factors, including your qualifications, prior experience, and the platform you work for. Online English teachers are paid on an hourly basis, typically ranging between $15 and $30. If you decide to work through an online platform, as most online teachers do, a fee for connecting you with students and providing materials is also deducted in the form of a commission. There are different ways to earn a living as an online English teacher. Some teachers work for an online ESL company, some offer their lessons on an open marketplace, and others even start their own online ESL business. Depending on your qualifications and the type of platform, online English teachers can typically earn between $10 and $40 US per hour....  [Read more]

  In this TEFL review, Laura from Romania talks about how she took the course because she wants to teach English in Japan and was recommended ITTT by a friend. Laura found the course to be great value for money and was happy that she was able to study the course at home in her own time. 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. Great videos in the Unit 10 to present the real good and bad teaching styles.↵The manner of how the teacher behaves is essential...  [Read more]

  In this TESOL review video Ray talks about how the 120-hour online TESOL course he took with ITTT helped him to learn the necessary skills to teach English as a foreign language. Ray recommends the course to anyone considering a career teaching English abroad or online. 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 useful tips were given for lesson planning. I learnt that a lesson plan helps to guide what you want to impart, it can be used as a...  [Read more]

Deciding to leave your old life behind and head overseas to teach English is a big move to make and one that can come with a few issues. One that many people encounter is how to stay in regular contact with friends and family. However old and independent you might be, the people you leave behind are likely to have some concerns and it certainly helps them and yourself if you are able to keep everyone informed of your experiences. While it is easy to make excuses and pass the buck, it ultimately is down to you to maintain relationships while you are teaching English abroad. The people you leave behind will have little understanding of the time difference, or your new work schedule, which means it is up to you to find the best time to make a phone or webcam call and to make the necessary...  [Read more]

The following books have been found useful by many teachers, during both their TEFL course and teaching careers: The Practice of English Language Teaching, by Jeremy Harmer (Longman) How to Teach English, by Jeremy Harmer (Longman) English Grammar in Use, by Raymond Murphy (CUP) Practical English Usage, by M. Swan (OUP) Practical English Grammar, by A.J. Thomson and A.V. Martinet (OUP,1990) Collins, Cobuild English Dictionary (Collins) How English Works, by Swan/Walter (OUP) More Grammar Games, by Rinvolucri and Davis (CUP) Grammar Practice Activities, by Penny Ur (CUP) Grammar Games and Activities, by Peter Watcyn-Jones (Penguin) The Resourceful English Teacher, by Chandler/Stone (Delta) Teaching English Abroad, by Susan Griffith (Crimson Publishing) It is certainly not essential to have...  [Read more]

The popularity of China as a destination for English language teachers has steadily increased in recent years, and it is now right at the top of the list with an estimated 100,000 foreign teachers working in the country each year. As a result of an extraordinary economic boom, Chinese parents are more willing than ever to spend thousands of dollars on their children's English education to give them the best chance of success in the future. With over 300 million people learning English across the country, China's insatiable demand for English language teachers looks set to continue. As there are often more job opportunities than there are teachers to fill them, schools are willing to offer very good salaries and other benefits to attract teachers. Salaries vary depending on the type of...  [Read more]

The salary for teaching English abroad or online is determined by a number of factors, including your qualifications, previous experience, and the country you desire to teach in. Let's take a look at how much TEFL teachers can earn when teaching English abroad and online. The salary for teaching English in a foreign country varies, but you should expect to make a respectable living. Teachers in high-paying countries might earn anything from $2,000 to over $5,000 USD per month. Your TEFL salary is determined by many things, such as the type of employer, your qualifications, your previous teaching experience, and the location of your school. Teaching English abroad can be a lucrative career path, but salaries vary considerably from region to region. First-time English teachers in several...  [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 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]

  In this TESOL review video Eva from Germany talks about the reasons why she decided to do ITTT's 120 online TEFL/TESOL course with tutor support and how happy she was to achieve her certification. Eva also outlines the many benefits she gained from the course and how she is now planning to further enhance her qualifications by completing ITTT's Business English course. 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 three fundamental...  [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 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 Wanyu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yueyang 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. Establishing rapport is an important aspect of teaching. A good rapport between teacher and students can help to create a positive learning environment. If students feel comfortable amongst each other and with their teacher, then motivation for learning can be high. The ultimate goal for a teacher is to see their students succeed in the learning process. Whether in a...  [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 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]

  In this TEFL review video Ann Marie describes her TEFL experience with ITTT and what she achieved by completing the course. Each of ITTT's training courses will provide you with all you need to begin your career as an English language teacher abroad. After you complete your course ITTT will continue to provide you with any job support information that you may require. 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. The four things needed for students to learn a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in HexiAngqiao 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. Topic The importance of learning teaching skills In our everyday life we trying to teach someone something, as in life we use different methods to explain something to someone, it is the same for a teacher. We spend everyday as teachers and learners. We don't have to be students to learn and we don't have to be teachers in order to teach. The source of learning...  [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 Daqinggou Guanliju? 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. Summative Task You have now successfully completed all your course units and achieved an overall grade of over 75% on the progress tests, so you're nearly there! In order to complete all course components, you will need to devise and submit a summative task using the form below. You are welcome to choose from one of the topics listed below. Your summative...  [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]

What does TEFL mean?    The acronym TEFL stands for Teaching English as a Foreign Language. It is commonly used to refer to training courses that almost anyone can take to learn the skills and knowledge required to teach English to non-native speakers in countries all over the world. What is the difference between TESOL and TEFL?    TEFL stands for Teaching English as a Foreign Language and TESOL stands for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. These descriptions are generally used interchangeably, however, TESOL is more common in the USA and TEFL is more common in the UK. Do I need a TEFL certificate to teach abroad?    Although it is possible to teach abroad without a TEFL certificate, we recommended that you complete a TEFL...  [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 HuangshA 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. In the 9th unit, we have learned how to make a lesson plan and conduct a lession based on the plan. We need to know why we must make a plan and what important factors the plan needs.At last, it gives us two examples to show how to make teaching plan and how to teach. I think teaching plan is very important especially for an inexperienced teacher without much...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huangmaoyuan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huaihua 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 following essay has the objective of explaining the role that parents perform in the education of their children and to address if it is relevant or not. We have been functioning in a society were school is an unrelated or a faraway universe to what happens at home. Education has also adopted this faraway simulacrum of real life developed in a classroom,...  [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 HuangshA Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chenzhou 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 I have stated in the past units I often help my mother teach classes by speaking Chinese to the students and basically being a teachers assistant. however in specific cases she has me teach the class while she watches and gives me some sort of constructive criticism, as she knows that I want to be a teacher in the near future. so I often teach her classes for...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xinjian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Wuxi 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 essay, I am going to discuss how to teach vocabulary. Although grammar is usually integrated with the teaching of vocabulary, we still consider it necessary to introduce ways to present and consolidate vocabulary. I will mainly talk about the following. First, we should know what to teach. In other words , what do students need to know about a vocabulary item....  [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 Nandun 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 gained a lot of knowledge from this course. I had no idea prior to this course that teaching english would be so detailed oriented or can be creative. I personally thought that the teachers were given a text book or course book and then teach right out of the book. I had no idea that teaching involved this much detail, anyhow, I learned how to create lesson...  [Read more]