How To Teach The English Language

  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]

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]

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 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 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 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 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 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]

  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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Xincheng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiaogan 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 advantages for anyone to gain by taking and completing a TEFL course. There are also numerous English teaching jobs all around the world that need to be filled. Completing a TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) course will open up a whole new world if you ever wanted to live abroad and teach English. Most countries require an accredited TEFL...  [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]

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 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 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 Shihu 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. English is one of the most spoken languages in the world, being the most used language on the internet as of April 2019 by Statista and is said to reach 2 billion people in 2020 by the British Council (which is 1 person in every 4). Of that number those people will either be using English or learning how to use it. So the question "why" may be better put as "why not"...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Daihaixunhuangongye FAzhanqu? Are you interested in teaching English in Wulanchabu Shi — Ulanqab? 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 should come as no surprise that people in different stages of life learn differently. As a teacher, it is important to understand not only how people learn, but also how to best teach them. Teaching kindergarteners and other very young students can prove to be the most rewarding. These children are not only young (and typically...  [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 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 Wangying 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. Havilah Pearson ITTT course 7 February 2020 Why Complete a TEFL Course Who doesn’t love to travel, see new sites, meet and impact others, and have experiences like never before. But all this costs money. What if there was an option where you could travel and make money at the same time? There is! With a TEFL certificate you can get a job almost anywhere in the...  [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 Malu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yiyang 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. Undoubtedly, English is a global language; it is used in international negotiations, used in foreign-affiliated companies, used to write academic papers, used to set up homepages, and used to perform commands while playing games. The ability to command this global language seems to be convenient and fair because we can make many things possible, including travelling...  [Read more]