I Will Teach You Language

Here I was, waiting to teach a 'Lets Learn English' session with the Pacific and Asian newcomers to Australia. I was to continue the conversational English lessons with them. The attendees were looking forward to the class. I could tell this by the enthusiasm in their greeting as they arrived and by their hunger to learn in previous sessions. What's more we were having fun as we journeyed into the English language together. What's the biggest problem these students have I thought' The simple answer is 'the peculiarities of the English language, or more specifically'words. So what are words anyway' They're just sounds or noises that we utter after all. Unlike lower animals we may not bark neigh, moo, roar, purr or growl, but we do react instinctively to what's happening around us; just as...  [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]

To Teach, Travel, Work and Live abroad! says the ITTT website. Indeed, the main reasons for wanting to be a certified TEFL teacher are most probably these. If you are a student, to travel the world, discover different cultures, meet new people and learn the local language. If you are an office employee, frustrated by the routine and bored with your job, to escape to China or Japan to teach and learn about Buddhism. If you are an experienced teacher, to give a new dimension to your teaching. If you want to help others, to do volunteer work in Africa.There are a multitude of personal and professional reasons that may motivate people from all walks of life to do a TEFL course. For me it was to be a real teacher. This is my story.I am a native English speaker, but have lived in France for over...  [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 Xiawo 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. Well it has been hard work! I did enjoy it though. I relished the challenge of researching and reading about things we often give for granted, but instead are of great importance when teaching. I already have teaching experience, but I must admit that after this course I have a better and more profound understanding of those human beings called students. Sometimes...  [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 GAoqiao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huanggang 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. Learning teaching skills can seem to be a daunting task, as it is learning not only how to teach, but learning to carry the responsibility that come with teaching. When taking the challenge of learning to become a teacher you are subsequently taking the challenge to be responsible for other peoples aspiration's and success. Knowledge is what makes the world go...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huangling Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xinxiang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. When I started this course I was a monolingual American with no experience or training in TEFL. Now I have had some introductory training and at least have a basic idea of where to start as I teach english. One of the things that I have personally gained is a good refresher on the language that I am to teach, and an awareness of my need to continue learning as I...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Bailiang 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 feel this course was very useful in how to plan and implement classes effectively. I understand that grammar is a necessary part but from my experience, I found this section to be fairly easy because I have already learned a new language and have already taught grammar, but some parts such as the passive/active voice etc. I was not familiar with and found them to...  [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 Qijie Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xinxiang 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. Throughout this course I have gained a much greater appreciation for the english language and a better understanding of grammar. It will significantly help me to improve my english teaching skills as I have learnt the importance of involving all skills in lessons. That is, I have often found myself struggling to teach pronunciation and grammar and rather have opted...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hadabei Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Anshan 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 staging is important for learners to be able to understand what is going on throughout the lesson. As teachers we must have a clear teaching objective so that the lesson would be focused on tailored to the needs of all students. Also, I cannot mix up the practices by mistakes because it would confuse the learners. A good way to keep a clear record of what I...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in DuguAn Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Sanmenxia 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 tefl course has been a wonderful learning experience for me in many ways. Even though I have previous teaching experience (in the sciences) at the university level, the TEFL program has given me the opportunity to learn much about the unique challenges in teaching english to students who do not speak it as their first language. As well, I feel I now have a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Longmiao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Suqian 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. One of the most satisfying and fulfilling feeling for me as a teacher is to make a child/children learn a new language. Making them learn to read, understand and write a new language is the best feeling. Though it is only the basic, but everything starts in the easiest and the very basic. Years ago, before I moved to Norway, I was a first-grade teacher for almost 4...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Sitong 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. This course has personally refreshed my english skills more than I had even noticed. Being out of touch with general language skills makes it easy to forget simple applications. This class has not only refreshed my memory, but allowed ways to express what I have learned. The lesson plans that were required were excellent ways to come up with activities that promote...  [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 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 Huangzhai 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. To begin with I came into this course with some prior experience teaching age groups from 12-18 years of age. The subjects I have taught do not include english. I have learned from this course a solid reinforcement of the fundamentals that make up the english language. I have also learned what I consider an innovative and very successful teaching perspective...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Ermi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Tonghua 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 found this unit to be very beneficial. I find that listening, in my experience, is the most interesting thing to teach, as well as challenging. I found the order of presentation to be imperatively useful, as I have come across many lessons that can be confusing. I found it useful to present any potentially difficult vocabulary that the students will come across, and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in KAngdian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhengzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. I have learned a lot about the english language ? despite being a native speaker and having a BA in english ? mainly in grammar and language constructs. This side of the language is not really taught to a huge degree in ireland ? at most I can remember receiving a basic grounding in grammar in primary school! I have actually found that some of what I have learned...  [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 XiAngfangAoxinqudongfeng Gongsi XiAngfanjidi? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiangyang Shi — Xiangfan? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. In general, my experience with this online TEFL course was highly positive and definitely worth both my time and money. Generally, I felt like the entire course was relatively straightforward in the design and layout. The individual content for each unit, how each unit is placed in relation to each other, and the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in TangzhuAng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhengzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. First of all, this course gave me an understanding on different teaching methodologies. It pointed out the disadvantages and advantages of all, thus I could see what methods are the most appropriate in certain situations. Personally, I greatly sympathize with the ESL methods. I like the idea of starting and finishing with activities that engage and activate the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in 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 HongniwAn Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Nanyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. In this unit, I learned about the different types of classroom equipment that I can use in my future classroom. Although more modern equipment such as interactive whiteboards have made it possible to plan lessons that may have not been possible before, I recognized the importance of learning how to use the equipment properly and having a backup plan ready in the...  [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 Butaji 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. This course has been invaluable to me on many levels. Firstly, this course has perfected my grammar. As a Native english speaker, I never thought of why I would speak english the way I do. And sometimes Native speakers do not necessary speak correct grammar all the time. As a future teacher, I will be able to explain to my students the reasons for the way we speak...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xigang 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. I must admit that this was first unit that took some time to comprehend. Other units I could read only once or twice and I would be ready to take the test, but this unit was different. I never thought about pronunciation in this way before. Now I see that same word or same sentence can have completely different meaning if we put stress on different place. I use to...  [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]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Taigong Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xinxiang 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 course has been great for me in understanding what aspect of english I need to understand so I too can pass on information. I have brushed up on my own grammatical construction as it has been a while since I too have had access to it. It made me realize that I need to be sure and should have researched all aspects of my lesson before presenting in class. Since...  [Read more]