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  The difference between the active and passive voice is one of the more advanced topics of English grammar. Therefore, it is important for every English teacher to understand this concept. 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 this unit, I learned the roles and responsibilities of being a good teacher from being a controller, organizer, assessor, prompter, facilitator and a model. Understanding the characteristics of the students and how to encourage...  [Read more]

  The difference between the active and passive voice is one of the more advanced topics of English grammar. Therefore, it is important for every English teacher to understand this concept. 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 this unit differnt teaching groups have been looked at more specifically such as young beginners to business students. Problems that may arise from teaching different groups and their requirements are reviewed. I have learnt how to...  [Read more]

Our unique instructional videos provide an invaluable addition to the TEFL training experience. These extracts from our 120-hour course with tutor support cover many aspects of teaching such as English grammar and lesson planning.  [Read more]

Teaching idioms and slang is quite a subjective topic. I believe that it is an integral part of teaching EFL. I agree with the school of thought that says that slang and idioms are an every day part of our language and it is important that foreign students are aware of the most common forms they are likely to encounter, the appropriate use of these language forms and what is considered to be taboo in polite society. An important matter to consider is that although students can find endless reference books on almost every other form of the English Language, slang and idioms are not considered part of the syllabus and paid no or very little attention.If we do not teach idioms how is a student ever going to cope with phrases such as - To bury the hatchet, to be in the same boat and to kick...  [Read more]

The topic of teacher accents in the ESL classroom is much debated. I am sure most teachers can relate to a story or experience. In South Korea, like many Asian countries there is a strong focus on the 'American English'. All listening tapes, dialogues, transcripts and texts use American linguistics and accents. Even the international TOEIC and TEFL tests for a long time were using American accents. As a New Zealand citizen being strongly advised to develop an American accent can be hard to comprehend.Kachru 1986 writes 'what actually happens is that language and power go together. American English is accepted for the power and superiority which America as a nation has acquired in the areas of science, technology, commerce, military affairs and politics'. I tend to agree and further more...  [Read more]

Child Development is a topic a teacher will come across daily. As a teacher it is your job to assess students on their ability to grasp both abstract and concrete thoughts. Understanding the development stages will help to identify the course structure. When you type in cognitive development stages of children in any search engine you will surely come across Jean Piaget. He is considered by many to be the 'Father of Developmental Psychology.' His key concepts are assimilation, accommodation, equilibration, and schemata.Assimilation occurs when the brain uses existing structures to deal with the new event. Adults and children alike use this in daily activities. When a new piece of information is given to us. Accommodation is when the internal reality has to adjust to fit the external...  [Read more]

Multiple intelligences is a fascinating topic that really caught our attention for writing our final article. This topic broadens minds and gives strategies and resources not only to psychologists but also to teachers who are willing to do whatever it takes to help students give their very best and learn at their own pace and through their individual abilities or skills. There are students who like music, others who like numbers, and others who like sports. The different likes are non other than the special characteristics each human being was born with and traits of the different kinds of intelligences.When you study the work of people such as Howard Gardner or Elaine de Beauport, you start to understand why some students react to certain teaching modes and some to others. There are...  [Read more]

As I was scanning the list of research options this topic caught my eye and made me stop and contemplate the status of the English language in the world today. As past units in this course have mentioned, many students of English take up the language in an effort to improve their salaries or their chances at a decent job in their home countries. If English is not even the official language in these countries, why then does a certain percentage of financial, economic, and industrial success depend on the knowledge of English' Is a world that speaks only one language really as simplistic and good as it seems'English is the most widely spoken of the Germanic languages and was initially spread to other parts of the globe with the expansion of the British Empire. By the end of the 20th century...  [Read more]

I feel compelled to write about this topic because as a teacher, I feel a need to express some of my ideas, hopes and concerns, in a realistic and candid manner.The completion of this course of study opens a very exciting door for me. I always had a passion for teaching little children. After spending my life as an Engineer and a designer of airplanes and oceangoing ships, the time has come for me to realize my dream.At times, I have asked myself if I am really gifted to be a teacher. But, deep in my heart I know I am a teacher. Earlier in my life I have been a flight instructor and a teacher of Engineering Applied Technology to adults at a business level. Not until now, have I had the opportunity to realize my dream of possibly teaching young beginners.I believe a person needs a certain...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wulidianzi 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 focuses on teaching receptive skills, which are the reading and listening skills of a language. It talks about language as a problem learners face when reading and a number of things the teacher can do to solve this problem, like pre-teaching vocabulary and carefully selecting text. We learn here that...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shuiquan 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. A teacher must be able to get a child’s interest if he/she wishes to teach English online. Typically, a teacher teaches children online individually and as a result, lose the classroom dynamics. However, it is important to get a child’s attention and get them interested in the topic or subject because children tend to have a low attention span...  [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 Houping 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. Learning modes: Young Learners vs adults Question: Differences and similarities between young and adult learners As an aspiring TEFL teacher, I have to be ready to teach students of all ages. While the language and lesson-planning follow frameworks that stay consistent for all students, the topics I utilize depend on who I am teaching; for example,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ZhuxiAn Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Kaifeng 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 video lessons. The unit includes two different videos. The topic in both videos is the same, as regards grammar the topic is modal verbs, as regards vocabulary it presents the topic of animals. In the first video the teacher's attitude is not right, he does not explain the topic, does not give clear examples, and the students feel nervous and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiuyan 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. how we choose topics and the tasks that with them.knowing our students and what really interests them is vital here. obviously individual students have individual interest and the topic may interest some of the class but not others. 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. how we...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chengjisihan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hulunbei'er Shi — Hulunbuir? 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. Circle time has become a teaching staple for teachers in most countries around the world. Circle time is a lesson in which teachers and students sit down in a circle, either on the floor or in a chair, and usually discuss morning topics. Circle time is mostly used in primary school but is also starting to be introduced in secondary school. It...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Cihe 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 Importance of lesson planning cannot be over emphasized, as the teachers need to map out plan of what the learners need to learn and how it will be done to ensure effective teaching and learning at a particular period during classes. Designing appropriate learning activities and developing strategies to obtain feed back on learners, is one of the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Niuxinding 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. Receptive skills include reading and listening. Lessons need to have a balanced approach of reading, writing, listening and speaking. Motives for listening and reading can differ depending on the situation. The two main reasons are for a purpose; when reading/listening takes place to achieve some particular aim or for entertainment; when we listen/read...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhangxiang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Tieling 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 provided a brief overview of the topic of teaching pronounciation to students as well as the study of phonology. As this unit was centered on laying down general guidelines for English pronounciation, the unit contained broad reviews of the different facets of English pronounciation (intonation, stress, rhythym, and a general introduction into...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qingkouyanchang? 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. It is generally agreed today that technology has become an essential part of our everyday lives. We are trying to increase efficiency and effectiveness of manufacture, education, management, entertainment and other systems. In my opinion, new technology can have a beneficial impact on different aspects of the English lessons. When we speak about new...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Longxipu 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. Discussions are strategies designed to stimulate thinking, challenge attitudes and beliefs, and develop skills. It is the oral interaction between people during learning in the classroom, that is, between teacher and learners, or learners and learners with the teacher as facilitator. Discussions incorporate characteristics of learner-centered instruction; learners...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Fengjia Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Fuxin 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 12 is about how to teach productive skills which involve writing and speaking. I discovered that these two skills are equally important and should be equal treatment like listening and reading. Based on my synthesis of the previous and current topic, I found out that effective receptive practice has a positive bearing on productive skill. For example, good...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Renheping 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. As we know in any case when we are going to teach a new language , it is really important to pay attention to some particular skills, that are the root of the language. These skills are receptive skills and productive skills. Reading is one of the basic skills of learning a new language. In this task I am going to speak about how to teach reading. And first of all...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Kuidesu 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. In the Unit 7 – ‘Teaching receptive skills’ I learned many important things about teaching/exercising both 'reading' and 'listening', which are the two receptive skills. I also learned that readers and listeners employ some specialist skills and their understanding of the context will depend on their expertise in these areas, such as ‘Predictive Skills’,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ShAhedian 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. 1.Principles of teaching reading • Reading is a purposeful enterprise Training students to develop their reading skills should be done to fulfill a range of purposes: - To search for specific information through skimming and scanning activities. - To learn and gain knowledge about different topics. - To be entertained. - To react to a text and have a say about...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yuhua 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. One of the biggest problems teachers have when teaching children a language is maintaining their students’ interest in the topic. According to a study performed by the National Institute of Health, 40% of preschool children around the age of four years old have problems paying attention. When teaching a class of children, you must maintain the children’s interest...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yaoshi 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. Background – Why I Chose this Topic I chose this topic for my essay because it is not something I had ever given much thought to. As a native speaker, I don’t recall studying correct pronunciation in school along with other aspects of language learning such as grammar and vocabulary. Correct, or at least acceptable and understandable, pronunciation was something...  [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| Nowadays students and people in general are surrounded by social media, they are immersed in the internet, have international job opportunities, multiple career choices, and the possibility to easily travel to many English language speaking countries all this means that people are dealing...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in FengjiApu 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. Learning English can be a daunting task. There is a great amount of vocabulary, a phonics system that is filled with exceptions, grammar that doesn’t always follow its own rules, and pronunciation that can be difficult to reproduce. A failure to speak and understand English effectively can have damaging effects on a student’s life. They could miss out on a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lutou 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. “Engage-Study-Activate” also known as ESA - is an effective teaching model designed by Jeremy Harmer. This methodology means, that for the best involvement of students in a learning process, the conditions of lesson should be flexible and clearly divided for different activities. As the name of model are told, it consist of three special components....  [Read more]