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Pronunciation instruction is perhaps the most difficult aspect of English teaching. There are no simple answers as to how, when, or how long, it should be taught. However, this article hopes to present a different way of teaching the phonetics of English. My undergraduate work was not in English or even general education, but the performance of music. I learned from experts in the production and education of sound, and I feel the techniques they used may be applied to the instruction of English phonetics. By utilizing techniques used in college level music performance education, it is hoped a teacher may improve the effectiveness of phonetic instruction in their English class.While a student in one of the leading tuba studios in the country, my teachers utilized one underlying philosophy....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Puji 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. In a globalized world, information comes faster and faster, and just a hand-held mobile phone, a computer, or a laptop is enough to gain access to the latest and fastest source of knowledge and information: The Internet. Education needs to be more and more inserted in this environment, aiming to reach people flexibly and interactively, either in the classroom or in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ChagAnmulun 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. Learning Grammar is the most important aspect for language learners. A good grammar makes us possible to talk about a language. Learning Grammar is a quiet long process, but definetly its not so difficult.Some learners enjoy while doing grammar exercises to learn a language, some of them dislike of grammar. These kind of learners think that much grammar is to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Elitu Zhongchuchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Xilinguole Meng — Xilin Gol? 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. Personal Teaching Experience If somebody would have told my younger self that one day, I’d be teaching native level English literature and academic writing skills in China, I’d have had a hard time believing them. While I have a rich resume of varying work experience, my background is in philosophy and media. Teaching English as a second...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in TiAnshAn 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. Abstract: Classroom management consists of the practices and procedures that a teacher uses to maintain an optimum environment in which instruction and learning can occur. Management is the act of managing, supervising, guiding and caring for an organization, program, or project you have been entrusted with. A teacher is entrusted with managing a classroom as a...  [Read more]

Linda is a passionate traveler and English teacher exploring the world one country at a time. After studying Mandarin Chinese, she moved to Guangzhou, China, to pursue an internship at a German online marketing company. She loved it so much that she decided to move back to China after finishing her Bachelor’s degree in Management in California. After working in online marketing for a while, she got into English teaching. Teaching English overseas has enabled her to experience life in different countries and fund her passion for travel. She taught English in China for a year and also during my her year in South Korea. She’s been living in South Korea since 2015 and returned to working in online marketing and teaching online in 2016 remotely. On her Website, she shares her tips and...  [Read more]

GOTefl started as a division of SA-Recruitment, a teacher recruitment company established in 2004. SA-Recruitment has successfully placed hundreds of teachers internationally, and has a strong understanding of the opportunities - and challenges - of working overseas.​ The GOTefl division became so popular and we were regularly approached by potential candidates that did not fulfil the requirements for our SA-Recruitment’s mainstream teaching positions and these candidates were turned away. So, we decided it was time for it to become a stand-alone organisation managed by the same knowledgeable and experienced team of recruiters, offering the same high level of personalised service and ongoing support - now just in the TEFL space. GOTefl works with schools all over China and Thailand...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GAnziyuan 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. The reason why i selected this topic as my summative task is because i know the importance of materials for the lessons and i am personally interested with creative materials for my lessons. I wanna start with explaining what materials are being used currently for English language lessons around the world: -Flashcards -Worksheets -Craft sheets -Downloadable songs...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Likou 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. The quotation by Malala Yousafzai says: “One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” These are those words that have the power to inspire any teacher and I was not an exception. Somehow the quote gave me a brand new outlook on this profession. Though my personal teaching path started just a couple of years ago, I was quite exhausted and lacking...  [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]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gucheng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huhehaote Shi — Hohhot? 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 should note that the simple act of praise is not just about motivating people, it serves many more purposes. In the field of positive psychology things such as appreciation and praise at work or study place are considered highly important. So, if praise is proven to be an important motivating factor, why don’t some teachers use praise enough? I am...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huangmeixiannong Kesuo? 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. These days, foreign language teaching involves active interaction with the target language culture loaded with nonstandard English, e.g., slang and idioms, without which English learners are not fully capable of mastering the language and achieving mutual understanding with native speakers. Thus, the use of idioms and slang has a great influence in the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhendeqiao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changde 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. Joshua Giles ITTT 120hr Online Course 08 October 2019 Why English can Influence the Future of a Student’s Career The world is ever-changing, moulding, and evolving into something else than what it was yesterday. It is a constant flow of new ideas, ways, life, and society. It doesn’t stop and won’t stop. This can make it hard for the individual to keep up...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dingsidang 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. Teaching online has been a growing demand. It is preferred by many teachers and students; it seems like a revolutionary thing. This growth has clearly affected teaching English as a second language. When searching for online ESL courses or tutors, numerous websites appear. The reason of this noticeable increase in the ESL online market is the great advantage...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huanggang 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. Lesson planning is vital especially with newly trained teachers. If a teacher is organized and structured so will the students. If lesson planning is done then at any point if another teacher/ substitute needs to stand in/ cover your class then students wont lose valuable time as lesson will just carry on. Planning and timing is vital to assist and ensure that...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ChengguAn 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. In order to establish the importance of teaching idioms and slang to ESL students we must consider a number of elements relating to the learner. Age, culture, motivations, life experience and language level are all relevant factors in the decision to introduce a student, or group of students, to informal language. I would argue that the most important of these...  [Read more]

  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word "belated". This word refers to something that happened later than it should have. A common use of the word is in the following phrase "Happy belated birthday," used by people who wish someone a happy birthday after the actual birthday. Synonyms for belated include late and overdue. 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. So far this section has felt the most intuitive. With general communication being of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shuguang 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. In this unit I could learn more about the importance of reading and listening, if the topic is not of the interest of the student for sure they wont enjoy the lesson and it will become difficult for him to lear something, Is also important to pre teach some difficult vocabulary in order to facilitate the comphrention of the text. In this unit I could learn more...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yitang 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. I chose the subject ‘Why cultural sensitivity in the classroom is important ‘ , because I feel when teaching English abroad , it is crucial to understand the important sensitivities of different cultures , from different parts of the world . Cultural differences from different countries is also a personal interest of mine . Firstly it is important to understand...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GuAnqiao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xianning 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 think using games to teach is fantastic, if you are using games in your class for the right reasons that is. Using games in your classroom just to pass the time or even games that aren’t relevant to to the content you are teaching. There are a lot if advantages of using games as well as some disadvantages. There are a lot of games you can use. Just by doing a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dinghu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Nanchang 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. Got to apply previous modules work which is good. Putting together a lesson plan is extremely important to help visualize and plan how the lesson should ideally go. Being flexible in the lesson is very important as very often things wont go to plan or will need to change according to the needs and response of the students. Got to apply previous modules work which...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GushAn Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Taizhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Readers are Leaders: How to instill a love for reading in children? I worked as a TA for 6 years in my younger years with a teacher who taught kindergarten and grades 1 and 2. She also had her bachelor’s degree in Special Education. Teaching children to read and fall in love with reading was a passion I learned from her. The first and most important lesson she...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gedian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ezhou 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. Discipline is the first thing comes to our mind when we talk about classroom management. A classroom without proper discipline makes it difficult for the teacher to concentrate on teaching. If we go by the words of Harry Wong - an educator, educational speaker and author, "In an effective classroom, students should not only know what they are doing, they should know...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in LouzhuAng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Taizhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Asking this question would be the equivalent to starting a World war. There are teachers who find games tedious, time consuming and juvenile. The other side of the coin are teachers who believe that games are an integral and warranted part of teaching. Even animals in nature use games to teach their young. Numerous articles* have been published stating how...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Baiyintaohai Sumu? 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. This is a brief report on the growing importance that English language is having after the benginning of the period of Globalization and personal career consideration of a young teacher. I graduated in 2105 from a Business and Foreign Language University; during my entire study path (from the elementary schools) there was this general feeling that foreign...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dengta Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Liaoyuan 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. Teacher attitude is a huge part of teaching practices. Ruby Payne wrote, "no significant learning can happen without a significant relationship". In looking at the two lessons the first presents a teacher who is "large and in charge" but does not seem to know his students and their present level of performance. In the second round, Simon the teacher won over the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Nanhu Yuanzhongchang? 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. There are two types of motivation; intrinsic and extrinsic. Extrinsic motivation is a push that comes from outside of a person. When people want to gain a reward (good grades) or avoid punishment, they are usually extrinsically motivated. Intrinsic motivation is a push that comes from inside a person. When people enjoy doing a certain activity they are...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiaohe Zhen? 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. Having been an English teacher of high school students in Japan for the past 2 years, I have noticed that motivation in the classroom is as much dependent on the students as it is on me as the teacher. There are three aspects which I have identified and used in my environment to get the student motivated and engaged. The Japanese culture is largely...  [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 Qianjin 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. Educators play an enormous role in contributing to growth and development in the world we live in. Not only do they come as superheroes who stand in front of the classroom but we have them in every learning environment including boardrooms. However, this summative task will dissect ways ESL teachers can build confidence in the classrooms. Psychology Today describes...  [Read more]