Fluency Esl

  Before we move on to the planning of a lesson for speaking skills, something that we need to look at first is the idea of the accuracy versus the fluency of speaking. Accuracy relates to the correct usage of grammar and vocabulary, whereas fluency relates to our ability to continue speaking without any interruption. Now, ultimately within a whole ESA lesson or within language learning itself fluency and accuracy are equally important. Within an ESA lesson, however, depending upon which stage we're at in that lesson, then we're either focusing on accuracy or we're focusing on fluency. Remember in the ESA lesson, in the study phase, this is where we're looking at the target language where we're doing our language learning, so it's very important in this stage that we focus on the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Vermont? Are you interested in teaching English in Norton, Vermont? Check out our opportunities in Norton, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This unit covered other aspects and fundamentals of English Grammar that ESL teachers may commonly run into and may need to know how to teach to ESL students. These grammar principles will likely only...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Maine? Are you interested in teaching English in Waterford, Maine? Check out our opportunities in Waterford, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! There are a number of ESL methods that have been developed over the years. Some of them have been more successful than others due to greater flexibility in covering different aspects in learning a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Minnesota? Are you interested in teaching English in Appleton, Minnesota? Check out our opportunities in Appleton, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! There are lots of methodologies that combine into forming a modern ESL teaching techniques. The 3 main stages of any ESL lesson are Engage, Study and Activate. This can be varied as required...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Iowa? Are you interested in teaching English in Lakota, Iowa? Check out our opportunities in Lakota, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Receptive skills. The receptive skills are listening and reading, because learners do not need to produce language to do these, they receive and understand it. When learning a new language learners tend to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Georgia? Are you interested in teaching English in Lexington, Georgia? Check out our opportunities in Lexington, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Writing and peaking are considered productive skills and both require different teaching methologies. Speaking is the means through wich a ESL classroom will run. Speaking commands a certain...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Wisconsin? Are you interested in teaching English in Clintonville, Wisconsin? Check out our opportunities in Clintonville, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This penultimate unit covered a wide range of subjects: Passive and active voice, modals, relative clauses. Active and passive voice are especially valuable for the ESL learner since it...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in New Mexico? Are you interested in teaching English in Santa Clara, New Mexico? Check out our opportunities in Santa Clara, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! The content in this unit supplements that of Unit 11 because it focuses on the remaining two aspects of language learning and usage: Speaking and Writing (known as Productive Skills). ...  [Read more]

  Applying for ITTT's combined course is a very easy process. The application form only takes a few minutes to complete and once you have sent it back to us you will receive a response within twelve hours. Your course acceptance email will outline all the details regarding the course. There is a deposit required before you receive your course material. The web site has all the current details. Towards the end of your online course you will need to contact us to confirm when and where you would like to do your observed teaching practice. 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...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in New Jersey? Are you interested in teaching English in Westville, New Jersey? Check out our opportunities in Westville, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! There are two productive skills that should be developed in ESL classroom: speaking and writing. They are both important. However, many teachers pay less attention to writing as it takes...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Delaware? Are you interested in teaching English in Warwick, Delaware? Check out our opportunities in Warwick, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! The information presented on writing and speaking is very interesting. To take into consideration that some students may have to entirely learn how to use the English alphabet and all about...  [Read more]

Globalization and the increasing demand for English speaking professionals all over the world, especially in emerging regions, has brought about a new, steadily growing sector: English as a Second Language (ESL). An ESL teacher is, therefore, an educator who works with English Language Learners (ELLs) whose native language is not English. The goal of the ESL teacher is to help the students reach a certain level of fluency in English, on both a spoken and written level. ESL educators are not to be confused with foreign language teachers. ESL teachers do not share the same native language and are specifically trained to offer explanations and directed teaching methods to non-English speakers. This teaching style is mainly focused on repetition, drills, demonstrations, and visuals. ...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in North Dakota? Are you interested in teaching English in Bucyrus, North Dakota? Check out our opportunities in Bucyrus, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This unit provides details of productive skills teaching- speaking and writing. Teachers have to think about the purpose, students' interests, and certain contents when planing the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in New Hampshire? Are you interested in teaching English in Swanzey, New Hampshire? Check out our opportunities in Swanzey, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Unit 17, equipment and teaching aids gives us information about the type of equipment or technology that you may find in an ESL classroom. I myself have used overhead projectors,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in New Hampshire? Are you interested in teaching English in New Durham, New Hampshire? Check out our opportunities in New Durham, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This unit covered the other two of four basic skills needed for learning a language: speaking and writing. Speaking and writing are productive skills and they are used to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Michigan? Are you interested in teaching English in Hartland, Michigan? Check out our opportunities in Hartland, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Unit 15 focuses on different methods of evaluation for students. Though teachers are always evaluating students based on class performance, more formal evaluation is usually conducted through...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Iowa? Are you interested in teaching English in Bridgewater, Iowa? Check out our opportunities in Bridgewater, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Unit 12 looks at the productive skills, writing and speaking. Writing skills, the unit text states, is one of the least taught skills in ESL classes as it involves quiet time. However, writing is...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Arkansas? Are you interested in teaching English in Horatio, Arkansas? Check out our opportunities in Horatio, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This lesson explained how to teach productive skills (speaking and writing). I learned that speaking skills are taught more often than writing skills in ESL class rooms and writing skills are often...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Pennsylvania? Are you interested in teaching English in Sandy Lake, Pennsylvania? Check out our opportunities in Sandy Lake, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This lesson covered teaching the productive skills which are speaking and writing. it covered the differences between accuracy and fluency and which one is more important. the chapter...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Minnesota? Are you interested in teaching English in St. Rosa, Minnesota? Check out our opportunities in St. Rosa, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This unit was about production skills, which are speaking and writing. There are some different reasons students would be hesitant to speak and some strategies teachers can use to encourage...  [Read more]

  What are ESL games? ESL games are games that can be used in the classroom to practice certain language points and encourage active and creative communication between your students. There are many different games created specifically for use in the English language classroom that can be found online or in any number of resource books. But we are not limited only to those games designed for the class. The majority of games that we played as children or still play as adults can be adapted and used in lessons. Whether games are co-operative or competitive, they provide students with a goal and in the English classroom this goal can only be reached by using the English they have learnt. Common Misconceptions about games in the classroom. "Games are fun but are not suitable for the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in New Mexico? Are you interested in teaching English in Closter, New Mexico? Check out our opportunities in Closter, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This unit highlights ESA (Engage, Study, and Activate) as the most effective teaching method for ESL learner. During the "Engage" phase, the teacher must stimulate students' interest to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Oregon? Are you interested in teaching English in Starkey, Oregon? Check out our opportunities in Starkey, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! The methodologies introduced were both familiar and new, since I have taken ESL classes. I found it interesting to see that audio-linguistics with repetitive drills had been dropped in teaching...  [Read more]

  Globalization and the increasing demand for English speaking professionals all over the world, especially in emerging regions, has brought about a new, steadily growing sector: English as a Second Language (ESL). An ESL teacher is, therefore, an educator who works with English Language Learners (ELLs) whose native language is not English. The goal of the ESL teacher is to help the students reach a certain level of fluency in English, on both a spoken and written level. ESL educators are not to be confused with foreign language teachers. ESL teachers do not share the same native language and are specifically trained to offer explanations and directed teaching methods to non-English speakers. This teaching style is mainly focused on repetition, drills, demonstrations, and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Pennsylvania? Are you interested in teaching English in Cheswick, Pennsylvania? Check out our opportunities in Cheswick, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! I was glad to read about the struggles teachers often go through to teach writing skills to their ESL students. I imagine it would take longer for students to learn how to write than it...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Georgia? Are you interested in teaching English in Lookout Mountain, Georgia? Check out our opportunities in Lookout Mountain, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! The first part of this unit introdoces many different ESL methodologies. Among this methodologies, the ones that stand out, in my opnion, are Audio - ligualism;Presentation,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Georgia? Are you interested in teaching English in Alpharetta, Georgia? Check out our opportunities in Alpharetta, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This unit deals with various potential problematic situations that an ESL teacher is quite often to face, and practical ways (solutions, methods or advices) referring to each class's setting...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Michigan? Are you interested in teaching English in Roosevelt Park, Michigan? Check out our opportunities in Roosevelt Park, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! In this unit, I learnt about the system and structure of past tenses which is somewhat similar to present tenses because we have past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TEFL Recognition and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: M.Z. - Australia said: Teaching EFL in a KindergartenWhether through english immersion or separate language lessons, english as a Foreign Language (EFL) is a growing field in kindergartens around the world, with native speakers increasingly being employed in such roles. While some people believe that teaching kindergarten students a foreign language puts too much pressure on them and may interfere with their native language skills, many researchers have highlighted the benefits of children learning foreign...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in North Dakota? Are you interested in teaching English in Niagara, North Dakota? Check out our opportunities in Niagara, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Unit 11 is about the way to teach receptive skills. I have already learnt new methods and tips to make my reading and listening lesson shine in this unit. ‘Receptive Skills’ (also known...  [Read more]