Teacher Talking Time And Student Talking Time

  When considering teacher Talk Time, we can perhaps look at the major advantage and disadvantage of the teacher actually talking. The major advantage is that you as the teacher are usually the only real model for the language, the source of correct English. So at some stages, your talking time is very important to the students. So when you?re modeling language, that use of Teacher Talk Time can be very advantageous. There are major disadvantages to overusing Teacher Talk Time, however, and perhaps the major one is that whenever the teacher is talking, the students are listening and if the students are listening, then they themselves cannot be talking. So, Teacher Talk Time reduces the opportunity for Student Talk Time. So, we should try to minimize the use of Teacher Talk Time...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dongba Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Nanjing Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Teacher speaking time or Teacher talking time (TTT) is the amount of time the teacher talks in the classroom, this can be compared with student talking time (STT) which is the amount of time student talk in the classroom. It has been determined that TTT must be reduced and student talking time must be maximized. There are a number of reasons why reducing TTT such as:...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GuAndu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changsha 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 guess we all have been there. Sitting in a classroom where the teacher never stops talking. How did it feel? Was it interesting and motivating or was it perhaps boring and discouraging? Did you have the feeling of having learned something when the lesson was over? Whereas getting students talking in the classroom has proved quite a challenge to many teachers,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chengdong 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. Speaking English is without any doubt, the number one, best way to learn English. Speaking builds confidence and creates opportunity. A significant problem faced by students in an ESL classroom is a teacher who loves the sound of their own voice. A teacher who spends a significant proportion of the session, speaking limits student speaking time to answering a few...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Beisheng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changsha 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. TTT stands for Teacher Talking Time, ’of which teachers can't have too little. Teachers will speak more in class, when present knowledge, manage the classroom, correct students’ mistakes, praise students or provide feedback, and set up or demonstrate the classroom activities. Here are some inadequacies of too much TTT. Firstly, TTT is opposite to STT...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Ganma 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. Teaching English as second language, is as much about the Teacher explaining and facilitating as it is allowing students the space and time to speak. This in turn greatly effects the learning ability of the student in literacy and engagement. Having studied the 120-hour Course and not yet taught a class myself, I can understand the need for an inexperienced...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Baiyangping 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. The term “Classroom Management” is defined as the following from ITTT’s TEFL Course Unit 5. “The skill of Organising and Managing the Class, having a Friendly, Relaxed manner and Maintaining Discipline.” There are many different aspects to Classroom Management. It can range from physical attributes such as Eye contact, Gestures, and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in JingjijishukAifAqutonghailu Guanlichu? Are you interested in teaching English in Yueyang 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. During my first semester in college, my teachers arranged for my classmates and me to visit a special historic site relevant to our studies. I will never forget that two and a half hour bus ride. A guest teacher lectured on the history of the site we were soon to explore. While a number of my friends quickly drifted to sleep, I politely sat...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Changle 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. Over the course of 4 years teaching English to children from 6-10 years old, I realized that managing classroom is one of the vital keys to gaining successful lessons. Classroom management is not only organizing the class but also having a friendly, relaxed manner and maintaining discipline for students. In this essay, I am going to dig into “How to manage...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in SuyangshAn 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. How Can a Teacher Maintain Discipline in the Classroom?  A common issue in classrooms all around the world is that of maintaining discipline. There are multiple reasons why the issue of discipline can arise in the classroom varying from the size of the class to the lack of respect between the teacher and student. In this essay I will be discussing why...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ShAnshAn Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Loudi 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. A good student-teacher relationship inside the classroom is necessary for the instructor to teach efficiently and for the students to learn effectively. There are several factors that needs to be taken into consideration in order to manage the classroom well. First of all, good eye contact should be established within the classroom. This signifies connection between...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xichang 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. When you are a new teacher it is easy to fall into the habit of talking too much during the lesson, this can be easily done because, in reality, you are the teacher, therefore you teach. This makes complete sense from one standpoint, the students are there to learn English, and you are obviously the model of that language. However, it is essential that we remember...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in YichAng KAifAqu? Are you interested in teaching English in Yichng 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. Have you ever had the experience of saying a fictional character's name out loud to someone for the first time and they don't know who you are talking about even though you're reading the same book? I have and it was a confusing feeling. The thing I have learned about English is that to truly learn it, you need to speak it. When we learn English by speaking it out...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xikou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huaihua Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Classroom Management is a skill that a teacher must try to learn and gain. This skill is a skill of managing the class, organizing the class and the classroom, having relaxed manner and maintaining discipline. As a teacher it’s not easy to have relaxed manner and maintain discipline at the same time. To achieve this goal the teacher needs to know how to balance. How...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liushui 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. How to decrease teacher speaking time When I had completed approximately thirty percent of the TEFL course I decided to go to a local school here in the North East of Thailand, where I live, and my friend, who is a Canadian national, is the English teacher at that particular school. I had already arranged with him, that I would take his English lesson...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wenxia Shuiku? 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. One of the most difficult aspects of English teaching is not grammar or even structure; it’s the externalization of ideas through the act of speaking with the teacher or students. The thought seems trivial but when put in an environment where the language taught overrides their own most students have a hard time organizing their ideas and thoughts in order to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GAoling 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. Traditionally, education in the classroom has largely employed a teacher-centred approach. Focus is on the teacher who talks, rather than on the students, who exclusively listen and are discouraged from collaboration. In recent years, however, more emphasis has been given to student-centred education: instructors share classroom talk time with learners, allowing...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shiyan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yancheng 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 establishing rapport is necessary? Rapport is ‘the relationship that the learners have with the teachers and vice versa…a class where there is a positive, enjoyable and respectful relationship between teacher and learners and between learners themselves’, according to Jeremy Harmer in The Practice of English Language Teaching (2007) Pearson Longman....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shaoyangshichapu Chachang? 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. Let’s remember the latest class you’ve had. What were you doing? Were you explaining a new rule? Were you answering you students’ questions? Were you telling a story from your life? Weren’t you talking too much? Let’s discuss how to decrease teacher speaking time (TST) and increase student speaking time (SST). According to communicative...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wangying 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. TTT, is the word I had never heard of during my first year of working as a teacher. After being observed at a session of a starter class, they just told me that I had to reduce TTT and just left me alone with this strange word. After looking the abbreviation up I realized this was the same technique we were taught in TTC, Teacher Training Course, as Teacher...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huolong 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. (Q139. How to decrease teacher speaking time) In language lessons, there needs to be a good balance between Teacher Talking Time (TTT) and Student Talking Time (STT). This is not to suggest that having a lot of TTT during lessons is undesirable – in fact, as language teachers and models of natural and correct English, the time we spend talking as teachers provides...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xuefeng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huaihua Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Kindergarten students are at the "Beginner" phase of learning English. Therefore, you must treat the student's and the learning experience in a fun and appropriate manner. Being kind, friendly, and entertaining is vital for the young learners and your rapport as a teacher. Building a good rapport is essential to truly providing the best English course and helping...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in BaiyinchagAn 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. Teaching English as a Foreign Language or as a Second Language is fun but sometimes it takes experience and knowledge of the lesson to make the class lively. Reducing teacher speaking time is an issue that needs to be looked at. For clarity, I will limit my essay to teaching young learners of age 10 to 13 years with good foundation of the English...  [Read more]

There are various classroom seating arrangements a teacher can choose from. The physical structure of the learning environment can have varying implications that encompass learning objectives, desired (or undesired) outcomes and even peer and other social implications. Throughout this article, I will examine the most popular TESOL seating arrangements and attempt to show the social implications it has among students and teachers. Also discussed will be the advantages and disadvantages of respective seating organization. This seating arrangement is known as desk rows or traditional seating (Ramsden). Although it is ideal for classroom management in a regular school setting, for the purposes of language learning, it is less than ideal. For instance, this classroom layout is not conducive...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huangji 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. The teacher’s role is to catch the interest of the students and to give them confidence. Getting the students involved in the lesson will also helps to prevent most of the disciplinary problems. The first thing is for the teacher to try to know his students. Knowing their name is of course necessary to get their attention or indicate who is to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tielushenghuoqu? 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. Having disruptive behavior in classroom can reduce the amount of time the teacher has to carry out the lesson. There are ways that the teacher can ensure that the classroom lessons runs adequately. For the most part, a teacher can have under control the disruptive behavior by building rapport (Training, 2011, p. 2) with the students at the beginning of school...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yindian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Suizhou 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. CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT WHAT IS CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? INTRODUCTION: Discipline often comes to the mind at the mention of classroom management, but the crucial component is much more .Classroom management creates a set of expectations used in an organized classroom environment .This will include routines, rules and consequences. Effective...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xidongting Guanliqu? 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. Classroom Management is the skill of organizing and managing the class, having a friendly, relaxed manner and maintaining discipline.Keeping a classroom under control is often my biggest challenge mostly with the pupils.With the help of ITTT 120-hours TESOL/TEFL course I've finally found some classroom management strategies that actually worked and eventually...  [Read more]

  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word gibe. This word can be used as a noun and as a verb. Used as a noun, it describes a taunting remark and when used as a verb it refers to the action of making a taunting or insulting remark. Synonyms for gibe are taunt, sneer and insult. 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 a classroom, we must know when to be firm and when to leave students alone. This is what this unit developed here as Classroom...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shuiyuesi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yichng Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. WHAT COULD BE DONE TO ENSURE THE EFFECTIVE ADMINISTRATION OF A CLASSROOM? For a class to function properly it necessitate the teacher to put his /her student in a confident position ,in this sense the teacher must know when to be firm with students and when to give them liberty. Classroom here refers to a room in a school or an establishment where a group of...  [Read more]