Information Gap

  This video is part of our ESA Methodology series. The ESA methodology consists of three stages. In this series, we look at the individual purposes of each stage and typical activities for each stage. This second video introduces the study phase of ESA. The purpose of this phase is to cover the actual teaching of the lesson and to check the understanding of that material.The second stage or phase of the lesson is known as the study phase and really the purpose of this phase is to cover the actual teaching of the lesson and to check understanding of that material. Typically in an ESA lesson, the study phase will have two parts. The first phase of the study is to cover the actual teaching component in what's known as the board work and what we try to do in the board work phase is to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhaodun Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xuzhou 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 out of the two or three most intricate things, according to the British writer Raymond Williams, is culture. Despite having many varying definitions, the nub of the matter is: Culture is the way of life of a particular given society. In other words, the social norms and patterns of behavior in a society learnt from and passed on to the next generation is culture....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GAolong Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhuzhou 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. Reading is not just the ability to recognized words, but the students also need to make sense of what they reads. Reading is also a very complex process that requires a great deal of active participation on the part of the reader. It is an active thinking process involving the interaction between the reader and the print. That is to say, the reader’s schema...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shaling Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Liaoyang 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 unit was separated into three parts of speaking, writing, and gaming in classroom. In order for students to be able to reproduce what's been taught, each section explains the teaching philosophy in behind and the details of what teachers should be pay attention to when doing the activity. For instance, when drilling the vocabulary, accuracy is more important...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jiukou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jingmen 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 most helpful teaching strategy that I learned about in this course was ESA lesson planning. An ESA lesson is one that includes three distinct stages: Engage, Study, and Activate. A successful lesson should include all three components, beginning with an engage stage and concluding with an activate stage. I plan to use this framework for my own lesson planning...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yezhuping Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiangxi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizho? 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. Course materials are the ingredients of the class, that if implemented effectively, make it taste good. A teacher can be really amazing at instructing but the materials are what will really help the students apply the lecture and know if they understood it. It reminds me of when I was in class, listening to my teacher, often times I was really...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhongan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jinzhou 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 two productive skills are speaking and writing. Each of these are very different from each other in respect of the English language and each one is taught differently. When teaching speaking skills it is important to have a controlled activity when introducing new vocabulary, such as drills and prompting. Students should understand and feel confident with the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lanqiao 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. Listening is an important skill which learners need help in developing their abilities. Listening strategies are so helpful. By giving a learner, tools to listen the learner can develop more control over his/her listening abilities. Many learners ask “ Teacher, how can I improve my listening?” The truth of the matter is with training from teachers. We can apply...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Daguben Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Fuxin 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 is based on productive skills formed by speaking and writing skills. In this unit, i also learned that accuracy is the correct usage of language and fluency is speaking without any interruption. So accuracy activities are done in study phase while fluency activities are done in activate phase. There are some activities for speaking such as controlled and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Niangxi 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. How to teach reading skills depends on which objectives the teacher aims t developing in his/ her sudents and on how lesson plans are structured. To this effect, teachers must take decisions about the objectives of their reading comprehension lesson. For example, the following objectives guide teacher in teaching reading skills. +, Reading for gist? +, Reading for...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in SAnkou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Lianyungang 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. Several years ago, on TV in Albania there was an advertisement about the importance of learning English. In the advert an employer asks a candidate for the job “Do you know English?”, he replied “Yes!”, the employer went on “Why are you interested in this job?” and the advertisement finished with the candidate responding “Yes!”. It is interesting...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dachangshandao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dalian 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 12, the productive skills are speaking and writing skills. Those skills are equally important as the receptive skills discussed in previous unit. I’ve read about the accuracy and fluency that form part of ESA method where accuracy is about the correctness of the language being used such as spelling, , pronunciation, vocabulary and structure...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lǜshui Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu 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. Learning disabilities are neurologically based processing problems. These processing problems can interfere with learning basic skills such as reading, writing and/or math. They can also interfere with higher level skills such as organization, time planning, abstract reasoning, long or short-term memory and attention. It is important to realize...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in JiAhe Zhen? 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 a real class, first, we need to mention the rapport between teachers and students. What makes a good teacher and a good learner is tend to be “student-centered” class than “teacher-centered”, which means teachers’ talking time is less than students’. Being a good teacher will always remind and encourage learners about their learning motivations and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Mangui Zhen? 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. Games are fun! For this very reason, games in the classroom are considered unnecessary and frivolous. Games, by definition, are entertaining activities structured by rules and competition. Grammar drills might be seen as more respectable in learning a language. Role playing could be regarded as the only practical rehearsal. Some would say debates...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Donghu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hengyang 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 a number of problems encountered by native Japanese speakers when studying English as a foreign language. These problems include: difficulties with pronunciation of native English sounds along with differences with sentence structure, tenses and articles. The English as a Foreign Language teacher can implement several strategies to assist the Japanese...  [Read more]

  So, having elicited this particular structure, what I'm now able to do is to move on to the actual study activities. Typically, they will be in the form of worksheets to check that the students actually understand this information. So, I might prepare three activities. They may not do them all but, for example, I could prepare these three study activities. So, the first one is going to be a fairly straightforward matching activity, where perhaps they match the subject to its correct verb "to be" in that part of the sentence. The second one is going to be a gap fill. For example, I might use this verb here and ask them to complete a sentence using that verb, so that I can check that any spelling changes that take place are correct and the final one is going to be an unscramble,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dasheng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yongzhou 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. Urban education can be described as a complex topic for school reformists in America. With critical issues, such as inadequate funding, lack of resources, and uncertified teachers, the myriad of problems with public education has reached a new high. In addition, many big city public education systems have turned into melting pots by bringing together members of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wangdian 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. This era of globalization and advanced technology has resulted in a number of opportunities for English native speakers that were never available before. The changing dynamics of communicating and doing business has increased the connection of people to communicate in one global space. The teaching of English as a foreign language is one such opportunity and is...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhaoshi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiangxi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizho? 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. From both taking this course and my past experience in teaching Japanese children English, I have seen the importance and impact of establishing rapport with students right at the start of the class. Starting from the first lesson, a teacher must establish what kind of relationship they desire to have with the students. That relationship must...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hailutu Zhen? 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. The ESA methodology is an eclectic teaching methodology, with components derived from earlier formed methodologies. The method is student centered, designed to maximize student language output through elicitation. The is especially appropriate for young learners as they perform best when given ample opportunity to engage in activity and speech when learning as...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wanjindian 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. Teaching beginner students in the elementary level can be very satisfactory, difficult, entertaining, and enjoyable. Throughout this year of teaching English in Japan, I have taught elementary school students in a one on one setting, as well as large classes containing up to 40 students in the classroom. Each situation has its own positives and negatives within...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ZhAngjiAwei 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. When teaching English it is important to have structure in the lesson. So which methodology do we use? There are many useful techniques out there, but in my opinion the Engage, Study and Activate (ESA) methodology is the most effective. Jeremy Harmer first proposed this method in his book “How to teach English”. The ESA method gives flexibility to conduct a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tuchengzi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chifeng 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. Engage-Study-Activate “ESA” is a methodology that teachers can apply to their classroom adding structure on how they will be teaching their students. The criteria the teacher will follow will have an engage phase, study phase and an activate phase. The first step will be to engage the students with what is known as warmers. The study phase will be used more as...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ShAnjiAng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiangxi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizho? 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. Motivation in the classroom Motivation has long been a major concern for most English teachers, do not exclude me. There is no doubt that it is a potent force in language acquisition. Motivation, both intrinsic and extrinsic, is a key factor in the success of students at all stages of their education, and teachers can play a pivotal role in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liguo Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xuzhou 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 Hong Kong, people study English in primary school, secondary school, university, and even kindergarten so you may think that Hong Kong people should be good at English like Cantonese which is their native language. Unfortunately, it is not true. English learners in Hong Kong also face difficulties when facing English. Hong Kong is one of cities which provides the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jiujiang Shi? 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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| This unit covered lesson planning in more depth than previous units Good lesson planning is vital to the process of teaching and learning This unit provides information on one of the most important topics/ issues in a teacher's life- lesson planning Reasons for planning lessons are many...  [Read more]

  Once we're satisfied that all the students have been engaged and that they've been given the opportunity to say something, we can move on to our study phase. Here, it may be necessary or useful to actually pre-teach some gaps in knowledge that have been shown from the engage phase and those gaps in knowledge may include actual grammar structures or indeed useful vocabulary and it's very important that, before we move on to doing any forms of activity, we check their understanding of this material. So, we need to do some study exercises. It's also very useful if you leave this information up on the board through all that study period. Those study activities can just be the normal types of gap fills or matching activities and, as always, we need to demonstrate those activities,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in QinjiAping 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. The productive skills, in my definition are skills that require the students to articulate or produce words, sounds, speeches, or sentences either in written or typed form. The productive skills are speaking and writing. The productive skills are essential, and are needed for communicative purpose in our day to day activities. There are other skills being...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huidun? 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. The teacher plays an extremely important role in the life of a student. There’s way more than simply teaching, such as mentoring and modeling. The teacher will be the one teaches the knowledge, motivate students, and to effectively manage the student’s behavior in the classroom. One of the main roles of the teacher is teaching knowledge to their students. The teacher...  [Read more]