Speaking Practice For Esl Students

Within the world of English language teaching there are many acronyms used to describe what type of teaching is involved in any particular scenario. EFL is one of the more common ones you will come across and it stands for English as a Foreign Language. You will find EFL is most commonly used when describing the teaching or learning of English in a non-English speaking country, such as Spain, Japan, or Mexico. It is very common for either of these acronyms to be used when talking about any situation where a student is learning English, however, there is a technical difference between the two. As previously mentioned, EFL is when the student is learning English in a non-English speaking environment, for example, a Japanese student learning English in Tokyo. In this scenario there is often...  [Read more]

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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 Texas? Are you interested in teaching English in Ingram, Texas? Check out our opportunities in Ingram, 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! Building skills in speaking and writing requires that you keep students engaged This involves creating a need/desire to achieve successful communication, just as we would encounter in real life scenarios....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Arizona? Are you interested in teaching English in Fort Apache, Arizona? Check out our opportunities in Fort Apache, 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! Output (Productive skills) is the weakest part for Chinese student, in typical Chinese public schools, students and teachers wont have enough opportunities to do output practice due to:...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Connecticut? Are you interested in teaching English in Waterbury, Connecticut? Check out our opportunities in Waterbury, 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 main goal of a non English speaker is to gain language skills that will help them to better communicate. Speaking must be practiced with different activities like debates or...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in New York? Are you interested in teaching English in Harford, New York? Check out our opportunities in Harford, 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 think phrasal verbs are one of the hardest concepts for language learners. It is just difficult for them to get used to speaking with phrasal verbs because many times it could be also...  [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]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Delaware? Are you interested in teaching English in Whites Creek, Delaware? Check out our opportunities in Whites Creek, 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 productive skills are speaking and writing, because learners doing these need to produce language. They are also known as active skills. They can be compared with the receptive skills...  [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 Texas? Are you interested in teaching English in Mason, Texas? Check out our opportunities in Mason, 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! Students can be evaluated by tutorials, student evaluations, or by tests. The different types of tests give the teacher different types of information about the students. Placement tests are designed for the...  [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 Iowa? Are you interested in teaching English in Lansing, Iowa? Check out our opportunities in Lansing, 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! Reading and listening skills are of great importance along with productive skills, such as speaking and writing. Naturally perceptive skills are the ones which are developing with fewer efforts than...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in North Dakota? Are you interested in teaching English in Lincoln, North Dakota? Check out our opportunities in Lincoln, 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 is about the ways to teach speaking and writing skills including games. Thanks to this unit, I have learnt new approaches to teach those productive skills. While writing and...  [Read more]

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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 Oregon? Are you interested in teaching English in Hubbard, Oregon? Check out our opportunities in Hubbard, 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 II focuses on teaching methods in the ESL/EFL classroom. After going through a number of different teaching methods that have been used in EFL, some with better results than others, this ITTT...  [Read more]

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If you have never taught English to complete novices before, the prospect of spending an entire lesson speaking with students who don't comprehend a single word you say may seem frightening. Teaching absolute beginners differs from teaching other courses, as any ESL teacher will tell you. It can be difficult, but it may also be one of the most enjoyable and gratifying language levels to teach. Every new word your students learn is important at this level, and the greatest approach to teaching it is to be as creative and funny as possible. Generally, teaching the letters and numbers should be one of your first priorities. You will lay a solid foundation for everything else your students will learn by teaching them the letters and numbers at the start of the course. Ascertain that your...  [Read more]

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First we need to define what TEFL means before looking at the various ways in which it can be examined to provide a teaching certificate. There are various locations in which a TEFL exam can be taken and different methods of instruction, these will also be considered. The acronym TEFL stands for Teaching English as a Foreign Language and it can be used in any situation where the English language is being taught to non-native English speakers. Technically speaking, TEFL refers to teaching English in countries where English is not the native language. It is a term used mainly in the UK and is used interchangeably with the equivalent USA term TESOL. As with any profession, teaching has a series of exams at different levels. Within the world of ESL the entry level examination for teachers is...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Organisations Accredited TEFL 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. W. - U.S.A. said: Business EnglishI originally decided to take this course as a means of ultimately teaching business english. Most of the students that I tutor one-on-one are grad students from Taiwan or China. They all wish to hone their english skills while they are in school to sharpen their edge in getting jobs here in America after their graduation. Many of the tutees I practice conversational english with eventually wish to work up to business english so that we can practice resume...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about University Global TEFL 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: T.S. - South Africa said: Teaching receptive skillsIn the ESL classroom, reading and listening reinforce the language skills learned in writing and speaking, expose the students to vocabulary and grammar not covered in lessons, and simulate authentic english conversation (Maxom, 2009; Broughton et al., 1978; Wharton and Race, 1999). When selecting materials for a listening and reading exercises, the effective ESL teacher will bear the following in mind: 1. The use of a wide variety of audio text, videos,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Accelerated TEFL Certificate 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: O.F. - Canada said: TEFL for non native english speakers The reason why I chose this subject is that I wonder how I as a non native english speaker newly certificated as a TEFL teacher will do as a teacher. Do nonnative english speaking teachers (NNEST) have a drawback compared with native english speaking teachers (NEST). I’ll first say some words about my experience about this course. Then I will convey some general experiences the NNEST have had in the teaching field. Then I will discuss what...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Locations Registered TEFL 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: L.S. - Trinidad and Tobago said: Teaching VocabHarris and Hodges (1995) describe vocabulary as all the words of a language. A more explicit definition is given by Neuman and Dwyer (2009), referred to by Bintz (2011), who stated that vocabulary is: the words we must know to communicate effectively: words in speaking (expressive vocabulary) and words in listening (receptive vocabulary). Mei-fang (2008) suggests that if language structures make up the skeleton of language, then it is vocabulary that...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Lessons Quick TEFL 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: L.G. - South Korea said: Comparative Teaching Methodologies I am not an expert at teaching methodologies, and will not draw any technical conclusions in this article, merely provide personal observations on a topic of interest. Identify and compare foreign language learning methodologies experienced by the writer, as a means of considering how EFL/ESL methodologies affect learners of english (as supposed by the writer). Discuss the article Why ESL Doesnt Work3 by Lynn Lundquist, and the ASE methodology in...  [Read more]