Spanish Imagery

One of the biggest issues facing the United States is the number of immigrants coming to the US from Mexico and Central America. With the large number of immigrants flowing across the border, the problem of language has arisen. Throughout the US’ history, the issue of what language should be spoken has been real. My father grew up in a Polish community. While he was in elementary school, he would be punished if he spoke any Polish. Today, across America, we are seeing this same sort of problem with Spanish speakers. Many people believe that schools should be “English-only,” and that immigrants and their children should only speak English if they decide to come to this country. Arizona and California have both passed laws banning bilingual education,...  [Read more]

One of the biggest issues facing the United States is the number of immigrants coming to the US from Mexico and Central America. With the large number of immigrants flowing across the border, the problem of language has arisen. Throughout the US? history, the issue of what language should be spoken has been real. My father grew up in a Polish community. While he was in elementary school, he would be punished if he spoke any Polish. Today, across America, we are seeing this same sort of problem with Spanish speakers. Many people believe that schools should be ?English-only,? and that immigrants and their children should only speak English if they decide to come to this country. Arizona and California have both passed laws banning bilingual education, ?[p]rohibit[ing] any ?teaching of...  [Read more]

There are many benefits to be enjoyed while working overseas as an English language teacher, including the unique opportunity to be surrounded by a new language on a daily basis. If your dream is to perfect your Spanish language skills by living and working in a Spanish speaking environment, then you have several great options to choose from. There are over twenty countries with a combined population of nearly half a billion people where Spanish is the main language. Many of these also have a large demand for English language teachers. If you are looking to immerse yourself in Spanish culture and language, where better to do it than in Spain itself. Famous for its stunning architecture, beautiful beaches, delicious cuisine, and laidback attitude, Spain has plenty to offer foreign...  [Read more]

Within the world of English language teaching there are many acronyms used to describe what type of teaching is involved in any particular scenario. EFL is one of the more common ones you will come across and it stands for English as a Foreign Language. You will find EFL is most commonly used when describing the teaching or learning of English in a non-English speaking country, such as Spain, Japan, or Mexico. It is very common for either of these acronyms to be used when talking about any situation where a student is learning English, however, there is a technical difference between the two. As previously mentioned, EFL is when the student is learning English in a non-English speaking environment, for example, a Japanese student learning English in Tokyo. In this scenario there is often...  [Read more]

I was inspired to write this piece because some weeks ago a little Spanish girl came to me and asked me why she should learn English' Why indeed!This essay will look at what in fact makes English a global language. Whilst restrained by the amount of words that are required for this part of the unit, I will try to include as much information as I can, however brief, to give the reader a more balanced view of this subject.The English language has become the language of choice throughout the world. Although it is not the most spoken language in the world (mandarin-Chinese) it is growing in popularity and soon, it is estimated, will be the most spoken language in the world. The English Language has become a 'lingua franca'. This is the term given to a language that is used for the means of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Donghuwei 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. Problems for learners in Chile. This essay displays my own experience as well as information from other (internet) resources. I work as an English teacher in Chile, mainly teaching professionals in the mining industry. Only 3 to 5 percent of the population in Chile speaks proficient English. The Ministry of Education created a plan to upscale the level of English...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ChuAnjing Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Bayannao'er Shi — Bayan Nur? 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 attempted to learn three new languages during my life Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese. As an English native speaker Spanish should have been the easiest for me to learn, but it was the language I struggled with the most. The reason for this started to become clear as I began learning Japanese and then Chinese. The things I did not do while...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GAofeng 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. Topic #37 - pronunciation problems in a country of your choice What are the pronunciation challenges faced by L2 English learners in Mexico? Spanish speakers from Mexico face a number of challenges for acquiring successful pronunciation skills in English. Many students here will have had at least some exposure to English through media and contact...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GAoming Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Nantong 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 with any individual learning a new language, no matter the age, level or nationality, there will always be challenges in the learning process. Spain is a Spanish-speaking country in Europe’s Southwest region. According to an online article by Seriously Spain, 65% of the population of Spain do not speak English. This means there are opportunities to teach in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Baima 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. Spain is a vast country with a great and diverse population from all across the world. As such the mixture of cultures introduces many curious sounds, in many different languages and accents, across the land. Historically, the consensus regarding learning other languages in Spain, was that it is not essential. Even after the dictatorship ended, there was still a lack...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Fenglin Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huangshi 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. While teaching any language it is very important to pay attention to the slang and idioms of that language. Because when we teach only the literal way, it will be difficult for our students to go easily when they are abroad. So, they will think they don’t know anything about the language they have learnt for many years, Not to be stuck on this, teachers should...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ShAshi 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. Parents have a definite role in the education of their children, especially if the language of the family is different than the target language of the children. Because of the closeness that should exist between parent and child, the first teachers in all areas of life should be the parent. However, due to the situations created in our society, this is not often the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tongxing 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. Cultural sensitivity in the ESL classroom entails a complex of factors and considerations including intercultural competence, awareness of global cultural, economic and socio-political diversity on both individual and collective grounds, and national as well as transnational educational differences for learners of English. Cultural sensitivity is, thus, crucial in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Donghuji 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. Throughout high school and college, my favorite subjects were Chinese and Spanish. While some would say this is because of a “knack for languages,” I would argue it is because I had several amazing and motivating teachers. In seventh grade I had my first Spanish class with an exuberant lady named Ms.Lindes. Prior to the course I had no exposure to Spanish, and...  [Read more]

I went to France when I was fourteen and I didn?t speak any French. I lived in Toulon where barely anyone spoke English; I was therefore forced to speak French everyday at home and at school. Being surrounded by French resulted in me being able to speak it fluently with no knowledge of French grammar. After ten months, I returned to Australia speaking French as my second language. I continued to study French at school, but in a completely different approach. The lessons were carried out in English and we studied the French news and French current affairs. I learnt a lot more complicated vocabulary and was able to form more complex sentences. I also studied beginner Spanish at school. From the first class, we were only allowed to speak Spanish. This approach allowed us to achieve a higher...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hongyao 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. I have been tutoring aspiring English students online for the past two years. I have students from all over the planet who have decided that taking American English from a U.S. native speaker was the path most correct for their studies. The most common reasons for a student choosing American English versus British English have been an infatuation with American music...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shipai 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. At a very early age I was amazed by the sounds of English. I used to listen to songs in English while one of my parent’s friends was cleaning his car. He used to play them out loud and I wanted to know what the lyrics said. Several years later I had the chance to go to China to be part of a cultural exchange program to learn Chinese. My...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yangji 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. Learning a foreign language is a highly rewarding experience. Through the acquisition of a new language, one unlocks more than just different vocabulary and grammar concepts; suddenly, the number of people that you can interact with vastly increases more than it would any other way, and you are given a pathway to learn more about the culture(s) that is associated...  [Read more]

The notion that English is a global language rests on fairly substantial ground since it is used officially and unofficially throughout the world. Linguist David Graddol estimates in a report to the British Council that '500 million to one billion speak English now as either a first or second language,' and 'there could be two billion new (my italics) speakers of English within a decade.' Jacques L'vy, a native speaker of French who studies globalism at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, states 'It's a lost cause to try to fight against the tide. It could have been another [global] language; it was Greek, then Latin, French, now it is English.' In the United States today a heated debate over Mexican immigration has triggered a move toward making English its official language with...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ShAhu Yuanzhongchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiantao, Tianmen, Qianjiang & S? 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. Foreign Language Experience In the following essay, I have chosen to explain my late-in-life interest in becoming certified as an EFL teacher, based on my own background with foreign language experience, which began at an early age. I was what some would call an early bloomer. As a baby, my mother read to me at night until I fell...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xue'an Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Nantong 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 part of a United States non-profit organization (Corazón de Esperanza, website: cdehope.org) that does its work in Peru, South America. There, we have a transitional home for youth that were orphans that is staffed by local Peruvians. Their native language is Spanish, which is my second language. I have been to the home many times over the past eight years....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in QiAnlishAn Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Wuhai 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. Phonetics can be a major stumbling block. Grammar a complex nightmare. Syntax can be tricky, and vast amounts of vocabulary difficult to remember. But which is the most difficult? Which is the absolute hardest to get nailed down. The greatest linguistic problem can differ from learner to learner, but phonetics, grammar and syntax tend to be the more common ones....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in JirengAole Zhen? 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. What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards, and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand. Ludwig Wittgenstein General observations Language is rich and diverse, it has many functions, forms and styles. Moreover, language is very old. However, despite its antiquity, it is forever young and flexible. In the same...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Siziwangqibaiyinchaoketu Zhen? 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. Puerto Rico is a predominantly Spanish-speaking island in the Caribbean situated between the Dominican Republic and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Governmentally an unincorporated territory of the United States, Puerto Rico has been under U.S. rule since 1898, and its constitution classifies English as one of the two official languages...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in HanchuAn Shi Jingji Jishu KAifAqu? 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. Teaching English to Spanish speakers The accelerated growth of English as a global language has made people from all around the world realize how important this one is nowadays, even in our everyday life we find English words and content wherever we look, technology, movies, tv, business and internet are only some of them. Therefore, people from...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ChengzhuAng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shangqiu 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. Personally I have gained a lot from this course, reason being that although my upbringing has been in australia and I have been bought up at home with spanish, so my spanish is perfect and my english has been for school, work and university. Coming here to spain 9 years ago, I did not think much of teaching english, as I feared it would not be what I liked,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zoushi 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. How foreign students with phonetics problems learn English. First and foremost I'd like to address why phonetics issues very early peaked my interest in teaching English for foreigners. Ever since childhood I was surrounded by people with substantial articulatory and auditory phonetic problems, not so much with the acoustic ones. Firstly, those auditory problems were...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Pingshui 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. Problems for English Learners in Ecuador Having finally completed a TEFL course one might find themselves in the process of searching for a teaching position, applying for employment or even researching areas to become aware of different regions of the world now available to us as we begin thinking about our professional development as EFL teachers. But mine is a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Luoping 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. The sample lesson plan and activities were excellent! This process will require significant practice but the outline and examples provided were helpful. I am concerned about the imagery in the units as most of the people appear to be white. Is there anyway for the visuals to better reflect global diversity? Finally, not everyone travels but it is a very good and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in JiAngbei Guanliqu? Are you interested in teaching English in Huangshi 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 will examine the different stages of the ESA methodology and the role they play in memory retention. Key terms: ESA: The ESA (Engage, Study, Activate) methodology is the methodology used throughout this course. Engage Phase: In this phase, the teacher will try to arouse the students' interest and get them thinking and speaking in English....  [Read more]