Teaching English As A Second Or Foreign Language

  Would you like to live and work abroad? With a TEFL or TESOL certificate you can work and live abroad, Teaching English as a Foreign Language or Teaching English as a Second Language. Check out ITTT's courses and start a new life with a TEFL or TESOL Certification! 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. This unit on past tenses is a good for review. I don't think we do enough practice with past tense, past perfect or past perfect continuous tenses in our...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Daitou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Teaching a foreign language can be a challenge in and of itself. It can be a whole other challenge when teaching children. Throughout my TEFL Young Learner’s course I have learned a lot about how to teach young students English as a second language. This is the best thing I’ve learned throughout my TEFL course because I spend a lot of time with children, mostly...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yangfeng 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. Bilingual classroom is where students learn a different language from that of their native tongue. This is called SLT (second language teaching) or FLT (foreign language teaching). The most common second or foreign language taught is English. The term ESL (English as a Second language) or EFL (English as a foreign language) is popular in most Asian countries. I...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in A'erbengele Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xing'an Meng — Hinggan? 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: Teaching grammar. Title: How to make grammar lesson more interesting to young learners Grammar is a key segment of language, particular English, in which learners have different views. Some students are keen on learning grammar rules and doing lots of grammar exercises. On the other hand, others hate grammar and suppose that this is the most...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hedong Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Baotou 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. By Ahmed El-Sayed Taha ITTT. Certificate in Teaching English for Young Learners – Research Assignment 30th of December 2019 Abstract This research highlights the importance of grammar whether in teaching or learning a foreign language. Moreover, it shows different methods of teaching grammar. Introduction It is a matter of fact that grammar is a very important...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Siziwangqijishengtai 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. First language acquisition (FLA) is the process where infants learn their mother tongue language and gain the initial capacity to communicate. Second language acquisition (SLA) on the other hand is the process of learning a second language. The main differences between first and second language acquisition is that FLA is a complete...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ShAnhu 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. There are two types of skills involved in language learning and acquisition, receptive skills (reading and listening) and productive skills (writing and speaking). Students tend to cope better with receptive skills than they do having to produce the language. For the purpose of this essay I will discuss reading as a receptive skill; how and why is it important when...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in QuanjiAohe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yiyang 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. English is learnt and spoken by a large number of people worldwide.In Shakespeare's time, the number of English speakers in the world is thought to have been between five and seven million. According to linguist David Crystal, "Between the end of the reign of Elizabeth I (1603) and the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth II (1952), this figure increased almost...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Youdunjie Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shangrao 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 demonstrates good teaching techniques from poor and unsuccessful teaching techniques by showing two different videos of the same teacher giving an English lesson to Thai students. The first lesson in the first video was not a successful lesson for many reasons. First, the teacher did not introduce himself kindly to the students, nor did he ask the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhunge'erzhao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in E'erduosi Shi — Ordos? 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 difference between learning and teaching English as a Second Language and learning and teaching English as a Foreign Language is much more than the one letter difference in their acronym. Whatever differences and specificities any of them are known for, one is clear - becoming an English Teacher gives the privilege of sharing your acquired...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ChengguAn Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Pingdingshan 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. Unit 16 taught me about conditionals and reported speech. In the first part, it went through the five main conditionals; zero, first, second, third and mixed - their form and the usage as well as typical mistakes and errors. Examples of teaching ideas and tips on how to teach conditionals was provided. The second part of the unit explained the concept of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiyangdian 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. It is 2019, and the world is ever so changing. The globalization of the world’s languages has never been so important. In the more economically booming nations of today, Schools and multi-lingual kindergartens have seen a dramatic rise in students and with this comes a more acute awareness of supplying these schools with early childhood educators skilled in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shigu 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. What does it mean to learn a language? Generally, when we talk about learning a language, we mean a process that starts with a person not knowing a language but ends up knowing it, regardless of the number of languages a person might already know. Of course, this is an overly simplified definition, but it gives us a decent starting point. So why is our experience and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yunmengxian Jingji 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. Christopher Pearce 25 September, 2019 Introduction Language is one of the most significant aspects that differentiate humans from other species. The method of human communication is considered unique as it incorporates both spoken and written communication. The use of language in communication consists of the use of words in a structured or...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xinglou 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. There is a significant difference between the acquisition of a mother tongue and the fact of learning a language as an additional language. Linguists tend to differentiate between learning (learning) and acquiring (acquisition) a second language. The first language is a language acquired by babies and during childhood, naturally from their parents when first learning...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dazhiping 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 one’s own language is something we develop unconsciously as we grow up. We are surrounded by people who speak the native language and just acquire it during our formative years. Through one’s family, from friends, in the school and the environment, we learn to adapt to the language widely used in our everyday life. One’s we are...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yugou 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. English as a global language “Global language” is a language that can be used for communication by a significant number of people around the world. English is the most popular language in the Word. It is the language of diplomacy, trade and business. 90% of Internet resources are in English. Science, sports, news, entertainment - almost everything is in English....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yangshi 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. Is formal education and training such as a TEFL course necessary in order to be an effective and successful teacher of English? Some may argue that as long as there is a sound knowledge of the subject, teaching English especially to speakers of other languages is easy and straightforward. However, exhibiting knowledge of a subject matter is very different from...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Quyuan 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. Through my experience teaching in both a classroom setting and in a less formal setting, for example teaching swim lessons, I have noticed that age has an affect on the manner in which you are teaching materials. Using the swim lessons example, teaching a five year old how to swim will be much different than teaching an adult how to swim. You will use different...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shiyan Shi? 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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| I originally went to college to study to be a Social Studies teacher in the US Drilling is a teaching method used by teachers, teaching languages or other subjects, all over the world What are the difference in learning modes of Young Learners vs adults? Many variances exist between...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Longhai 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. In today’s globalized world the knowledge of English is crucial to be able to communicate on an international level. Large parts of today’s communication take place in English, making it one of the most important languages of the world. Its simplicity in grammar, structure and vocabulary makes it relatively easy to learn and thus more suitable as a world...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huochangping 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. The Moroccan ministry of education based its formation of the curricula on the view that sees culture and language as interwoven parts that cannot be separated from each other. This view is supported by Brown (1994:165) 'A language is a part of a culture and a culture is a part of a language; the two are intricately interwoven so that one cannot separate the...  [Read more]

There are many different methodologies for teaching a foreign language. Here at TEFL international, we are exposed to the ESA (engage-study-activate) method, put to use in the classroom in a total emersion context, which is quite effective, yet very different from the way that many of us have been exposed to learning a second language in our native countries. Second language study in school in the United States was always done with the ?Grammar translation? method, usually in a bilingual classroom, a different yet somewhat effective way to learn some languages. These are contrasting methods yet they seek the same result, to increase communication skills in a tongue you are not familiar with, and until you are exposed to the both of them it?s hard to say which is more effective. I have...  [Read more]

There are many different methodologies for teaching a foreign language. Here at TEFL international, we are exposed to the ESA (engage-study-activate) method, put to use in the classroom in a total emersion context, which is quite effective, yet very different from the way that many of us have been exposed to learning a second language in our native countries. Second language study in school in the United States was always done with the 'Grammar translation' method, usually in a bilingual classroom, a different yet somewhat effective way to learn some languages. These are contrasting methods yet they seek the same result, to increase communication skills in a tongue you are not familiar with, and until you are exposed to the both of them it's hard to say which is more effective. I have...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liangsan 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. Teaching is not an easy profession to begin with. Furthermore, teaching English as a foreign language adds even more complications and considerations. There are many different qualities that contribute to the aptitude of an English teacher. For starters, one must have the aptitude for the language itself. English, as all other languages, is a difficult and complex...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Sunjiatan Guanweihui? Are you interested in teaching English in Wuzhong 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. From unit 13, I know how to pronounce an English word properly. Second, intonation can make our oral English sound more attractive. Different tones play different roles in a sentence. Besides, stress also plays a very key role in a sentence. Of course, there are some principles for finding the stress. At the final part of this unit, the phonemic alphabet is...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xuefu 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. Introduction: Grammar, as it dictates rules for the formation of a sentence, can be considered to be the most potent tool for communication. Every language, that it does not matter on how every one of the words is formed, relies on grammar to get meanings across. Although grammar has many definitions and may mean differently to different people, this essay focuses on...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Daqi 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. What makes an English teacher successful? Many people might contend that in order to be an effective English teacher, one should be a native speaker. In many cases, native English speakers are those most suitable to teach English, but not necessarily always. There are advantages and disadvantages of being a non-native English-speaking teacher, and to better...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yudian 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. Becoming a teacher of any nature, requires a good amount of skills, but becoming an english as a foreign or second language teacher requires a special batch of skills. All types of teachers should have the same general qualities; communication skills, patience, good listening skills, the ability to connect and build relationships with students, hard work ethic,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in SalAqi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Baotou 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 learned a second language can be beneficial for a teacher when teaching a class in English as a second language. I see three main benefits with having the above-mentioned experience before entering a teaching environment. Understanding insecurities As a teacher it can be very beneficial if you have first-hand experience with being insecure in a new language. It...  [Read more]