Tefl Specialist Courses

If you do a quick Google search for ‘TEFL certification’ you are sure to find a wide range of course options. From short-format introductory courses, right the way through to high-end qualifications such as diplomas and degrees. When faced with this dazzling array of potential qualifications, how do you decide which is the right choice for you? Before you make a decision it is a good idea to do a little bit of research into the destination where you plan to work, as some countries have certain requirements when applying for work permits or visas. In other areas where there are a lot of teachers in contention for each vacant position, a high-end qualification or extra specialist teaching certificate could make all the difference. Below we take a look at some of the most common types of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tumen Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shiyan Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Teaching receptive skills Basically, when we talk about teaching language, we always think about speaking, listening, writing and reading; but now, let’s just focus on reading and listening, in other words, the receptive skills. Why do we read or listen? the answers are: we do read or listen in teaching receptive skills because we need to know some instructions as...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dongcheng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yanbianchao Xianzu 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. In this unit, we will focus on the receptive skills: reading and listening. They are equally important. We have also learnt about how to read and listen. We must use a number of specialist skills when reading and listening, for example: predictive skill, skimming skill,... Readers' understanding the context will depend on their expertise in these...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Kaoshan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Siping 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 11 covers the information on teaching receptive skills, namely reading and listening. Furthermore, diverse aspects of specialist skills used when reading or listening are listed, such as the ability to predict what a text is about, scanning, skimming, reading for detail and deducing the meaning from the context. Also, it is highlighted that students should be...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Helong Linyeju? Are you interested in teaching English in Yanbianchao Xianzu 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. This unit covered specialist skills necessary to build receptive skills - that is, reading and listening. This unit provided detailed information on how to structure a lesson to build on receptive skills. This unit also differentiated between skills needed to build receptive skills and skills needed for productive language -- speaking and writing....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hongshiluchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Yanbianchao Xianzu 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. Teaching receptive skills (unit 11) suggested several specialist skills, such as predictive skills, specific information - scanning, general idea - skimming, detailed information, and deduction from context. I feel like the choice of topics we select for students to read or listen to would be an important factor because students have to be...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gushanzi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chaoyang 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 deals with two receptive skills which are Reading and Listening. These skills are widely divided into two categories: one is for purpose and other is for entertainment. Many specialist skills can be employed by readers or listeners such as predictive, scanning,skimming skills to understand the text depending on their needs. Teacher should always keep in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tangjiafang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Anshan 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 11 explains how to present and teach receptive skills (reading and listening). The different motives that we employ for reading and listening (whether for a purpose, or for entertainment) also play an important part in how a teacher may approach a lesson. A student is much more likely to be engaged in a lesson if a teacher picks a topic that interests the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in BaixiAng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jiaozuo 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 has covered teaching two of the four basic skills. Which are the receptive skills, reading and listening. Students will be motivated to learn these skills so that they will be able to achieve particular aims like understanding instructions or for pleasure. The unit covered the specialist skills readers and listeners need to employ (skimming, scanning,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Erpengdianzi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Benxi 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 11 introduced teaching receptive skills. How, why and what we read and listen to in the classroom were explained in detail. I learned about the specialist skills needed for understanding the context of particular reading and listening materials. Also, I was introduced to problems learners have with listening and reading, and effective ways to deal with these...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Taipingchuan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Songyuan 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 THE TWO RECEPTIVE SKILLS , i.e. READING AND LISTENING ARE DISCUSSED. THERE CAN BE TWO REASONS FOR DOING THESE ACTIVITIES. FIRST IS FOR A PURPOSE AND OTHER ONE IS FOR ENTERTAINMENT. NEXT IS HOW WE READ AND LISTEN IS DISCUSSED. ITS NOT ONLY A MATTER OF EYES AND EARS BUT LITERALLY UNDERSTANDING THE MATTER IS ALSO CONCERNED WITH IT. THEIR ARE A NUMBER...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liangjiang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yanbianchao Xianzu 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. This unit covers the concept of receptive skills and how we can go about teaching receptive skills lessons. The two receptive skills presented here in this unit are listening and reading. There are a number of potential issues that teacher should be aware of during the teaching and learning of receptive skills and they are mainly in connection...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shangqiao Zhen? 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. Dealing with Phonetics is a difficult challenge even for Native speakers, especially as the use of the IPA is not a natural instinct to use it, or instantly pull together the sounds. However, I can see it being of benefit to advanced learners of English when self learning. For beginners though, I would feel its to not use the IPA especially with younger children....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shiwuzhongniuchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Siping 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 have learnt which skills are receptive, and which are productive. There was also given a very useful information - that both are equally important. I think most of people think that speaking and writing is more important, which is not truth, because without well developed receptive skills, it is difficult to communicate correctly. Therefore, the...  [Read more]

We can say in general terms that all teachers are important, English teachers among them. However, the requirement for specialist teachers who are able to teach English as a second or foreign language is particularly important. What makes specialist ESL teachers so necessary? Globalized industry has led to an explosion of the use of English as the lingua franca. This trend looks as though it will continue in the near future. Whilst English is a mainstream curriculum subject in many countries, teachers of English are not necessarily equipped to teach English as a second or foreign language. Teachers trained in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) are therefore in great demand. Whilst it is generally true that Native English Speakers (NES) have a good working knowledge of the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in WAngying 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. Reading and listening are not only functions for the eyes and ears; we use our minds to literally understand words. We process words in our "preexistent knowledge" to truly understand them. Readers and listeners use several specialist skills which are important to their understanding the context. Their level of expertise in understanding will...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hengtong 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. There are four basic skills in any language: receptive skills - reading and listening, and productive skills - speaking and writing. The reasons and motives for receptive skills are either for a purpose or for entertainment. Readers and listeners employ a number of specialist skills when reading or listening: predictive skills, scanning, skimming, detailed info and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Linhai Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Siping 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 covers techniques in teaching theory, reading/listening ,for a purpose to help us achieve a particular goals and for entertainments which we found pleasurable using specialist skills. Learnt that reading and listening are not simply matters for the eyes and ears but also a matter of using our minds to process them in our pre existent knowledge. this unit...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Daban Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chaoyang 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 already knew the four different skills (reading, listening, speaking, and writing) of a language as I am currently learning Spanish. However, this unit has helped me to engage in further content about each specialist skill. I learnt various methods for combating problems that may arise in receptive skills and the patchwork lesson design assisted me to visualise an...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shuanglong Gongyeyuanqu (TeshuxiangZhen)? Are you interested in teaching English in Songyuan 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. Focused on teaching receptive skills, this unit makes it extra clear that there are 4 basic skills in every language, receptive skills which are listening and reading and productive skills which are speaking and writing. Reasons for listening and reading were looked into, how we read and listen, specialist skills employed when reading...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dapingfang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chaoyang 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 this unit, I learned the two receptive skill are reading and writing, and the different specialist skills needed for reading and listening successfully. during the teaching and learning receptive skills, the choice of topic is very important,as it can help to motivate the students.Knowing our students and what really interests them is vital.The example of a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xinglin 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. This unit focuses on the receptive skills of reading and listening and it highlights the two main categories of reading and listening. These are for a purpose and for entertainment. Again, it outlines a number of specialist skills readers and listeners adopt when reading and listening placing much emphasis on the fact that reading and listening are not just matters...  [Read more]

TEFL is Teaching English as a Foreign Language; TESOL is Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. The two terms are generally interchangeable. A TEFL/TESOL certificate is the major qualification required to teach English abroad. There is a huge demand for teachers around the world with opportunities in almost every country. Taking a TEFL/TESOL Certificate course provides the opportunity to travel and work around the world, to gain knowledge and experience of foreign cultures and languages and to embark upon a career in teaching. No previous teaching experience or specialist qualifications are required. The only requirement is fluency in English. TEFL/TESOL employment prospects for graduates of our courses are excellent. You will find teaching job opportunities throughout the world,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Beizheng (Zhen)Muye Yuanqu? Are you interested in teaching English in Songyuan 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 deals with the teaching of receptive skills. The two receptive skills are reading and listening which are both equally important. Generally, readers and listeners employ a number of specialist skills when reading or listening and their understanding of the context will depend on their expertise in these areas: predictive skills; scanning...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Songjiang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yanbianchao Xianzu 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. This unit talks about the two receptive skills: reading, and listening. When reading or listening, people apply specialist skills, those skills are: predictive skills, scanning, skimming, reading for detailed information, and deducing information from context. In order to avoid problems with students struggling with reading or listening its...  [Read more]

  Livinus is from Cameroon and is teaching English in China. He recently took our 120-hour online certification course and enjoyed working through the 20 units. He enjoyed the flexibility the course gave him to complete the course. 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. Reading and listening skills are important skills in a language. Reading and listening involve more than just the eyes and ears. We use our minds to make connection to pre existing knowledge...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Maan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Siping 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 talks about RECEPTIVE SKILLS. In English language those are the reading and the listening skills and both are equally important to the students. Whether a learner will read or listen to something he/she listens for two reasons either for a purpose of getting information or instruction or just for entertainment. There are specialist skills to be able to be...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiangyang 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. This unit focused on Receptive Skills, that is Reading and Listening skills. It talked about the main reasons and motives for reading and listening which is divided into two main categories;-for a purpose and for entertainment. It also spelled out a number of specialist skills when reading or listening which entailed predictive skills , specific information...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Kangdaying 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. teaching receptive skills--Listening and reading Key point: Problems with listening and reading- Language: sentence, word length, unfamiliar words Topics: interesting topics. A variety of topics, over a period of time, is needed to ensure that all of our students are equally catered for in the end. Create interest: get students engaged by discussing the topic,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shenyang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Siping Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit is about teaching receptive skills. Receptive skills are reading and listening. The reasons for reading and listening can be divided into two main categories, i.e. for a purpose and for entertainment. There are a number of specialist skills needed for listening and reading successfully: predictive skills, scanning, skimming, detailed reading and deduction....  [Read more]