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TEFL Why Would Anyone Want to Learn Grammar?

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it...

TEFL Learning Teaching Skills

So you've decided you want to teach English as a foreign language...

TEFL Classroom management guidance for the inexperienced teacher

There are many different practices that could be used for good classroom management and as with all techniques these need to be adapted to your own classroom, taking into account the age, culture, and personality of the class as a whole, and of you as a teacher...

TEFL Classroom management

Classroom management requires a positive relationship between the teacher and the student...

TEFL Classroom management

I believe that Classroom Management is the key component in any educational setting...

TEFL Classroom Management

I?m sure ?Classroom Management? holds many different meanings for many different people...

TEFL Classroom Management

Classroom management is a teacher?s ability to organize and control a classroom...

TEFL Classroom Management - Beyond Discipline

What is most remarkable about the assortment of discipline on the market today is the number of fundamental assumptions they seem to share...

TEFL Classroom management

The idea of classroom management is something that every future teacher must plan and contemplate thoroughly before starting his/her teaching career...

TEFL Classroom management

Classroom Management is the way in which we organize the resources, students and helpers in the classroom so that teaching and learning can proceed in an efficient and safe manner...

TEFL Classroom Management

Classroom Management is a vital skill involving various aspects, which are to be judiciously used for effective and successful teaching...

TEFL Phonetics and its Uses in Foreign Language Instruction

Phonetics and its Uses in Foreign Language Instruction Phonetics is the study of the physical aspects of speech...

TEFL Phonetics and Phonology

Humans speak with each other by creating sounds...

TEFL Course Materials

This article will look at the range of materials that are useful and readily available for teaching the English Language to a group on non-native English speakers...

TEFL Course Materials

In an ESL lesson, the materials chosen to present the new grammar and vocabulary are a very important part of the teacher?s preparation and largely determine how well the lesson will be understood and enjoyed by the students...

TEFL Online vs. Onsite TEFL Certification

When deciding to pursue a career teaching English as a foreign language abroad, it is extremely beneficial?and in many cases, required? to receive a form of certification...

TEFL Online Vs. In Class Courses

Education has undergone many evolutions and transformations during the technological age...

TEFL Why complete a TEFL course

The motives people have, with regard to undertaking such an intensive and demanding course as a TEFL(Teaching English as a Foreign Language), are varied: a desire to live and work in some exotic location; to meet and interact with new people from all walks of life and, indeed, all corners of the globe: to enhance their existing skills or supplement a CV; to forge a different career path or, more altruistically, to seek to improve the lives of others by enabling them to communicate with the wider world while perhaps benefiting them in both social and financial contexts...

TEFL Why complete a TEFL / TESOL course

(1) 'The world is your classroom' is the TEFL International motto and four fun weeks with us is your ticket to living your dreams abroad, in exciting locations all over the world...

TEFL Why complete a TEFL course

Teaching English abroad is an increasingly popular career option for native English speakers of all ages...

TEFL Why complete a TEFL course

A TEFL (or TESOL) certificate is the major ESL qualification required to teach English abroad...

TEFL Why complete a TEFL course?

Why complete a TEFL course? There are a number of reasons why a native English-speaker might undertake a TEFL course...

TEFL Why I did a TEFL/SOL course, and why someone else should?

For the purpose of this article I assume that there is absolutely no difference between TEFL and TESOL, they are both a means of teaching English to people who do not have it as their first language...

TEFL Why Complete a TEFL course?

A TEFL course is a very unique course in that once qualified the world is literally your oyster!! Or as quoted by TEFL International ?the world is your classroom? (2) For all those hungry for travel but thought they were too old, for those who didn?t want to book the standard RTW trip or waste a year of their life saving for it!, for those that want to travel whilst learning a new skill, for those that want to seek out the more remote parts of the world and experience living in and with different cultures, for those who want to meet like minded people, for those who want a career break, for those who want a career!, for those who want to better their teaching skills, for those who want to make their dreams come true, for those who just want to get away from their normal life, for those who want to retire?the list is endless, for all the above the TEFL course is perfect!...

TEFL Problems faced by Thai students learning English

gIf the English language made any sense, catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur...

TEFL Problems facing learners of different nationalities

I am a ?Purist? at heart...

TEFL Problems for learners in Thailand

Since we expect, D...

TEFL Problems for Learners in Italy

ESL students whose first language is Italian certainly have many advantages over some students who speak languages less closely related to English...

TEFL Problems for learners in Japan

Living in Japan has given me the opportunity to see difficulties Japanese people have with English first hand...

TEFL Problems for learners in Hong Kong

Introduction As a former British colony, English is widely used in Hong Kong...

TEFL English Fluency and Pronunciation Problems in Japanese People

Japanese people are known to be well educated...

TEFL Teaching English In China 1993 vs. The Present

China has been proclaimed to be the largest market for English learners...

TEFL Problems for learners in China

Teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) in China is for the most part pleasant and exciting...

TEFL Problems for Students of English in Korea

Given the linguistic dissimilarities between the English and Korean languages, there are inevitably a multitude of pitfalls awaiting the Korean-speaker who seeks to learn English...

TEFL Common linguistic problems

Within the English Language there are many problems that as native speakers we don?t really think about but when learning the English language as a second language there are many common misunderstandings and problems that arise...

TEFL Teacher Self-Analysis

When training to teach English as a foreign language, or any other subject for that matter, at some stage the need arises to examine what exactly it is that makes someone a good teacher...

TEFL Professional Development and the Future of TESOL

With communication technology and global economics making the world an increasingly smaller place, the need for a universal language is becoming increasingly important...

TEFL Teacher Career Development

There are many different paths on the road to becoming a teacher...

TEFL EFL Employment Opportunities

Are you bored with your current occupation? How would you like to see the world, experience different cultures, and get paid for it? From Spain to Sunny San Diego the EFL market is an occupationally diverse and exciting place to begin or continue your EFL career...

TEFL Employment Options

There are many employment options for individuals who obtain the TEFL Certificate...

TEFL Teaching English In Spain

Upon my investigation of obtaining a position teaching English as a foreign language in the country of Spain I discovered a bit of vital information...

TEFL First Language vs. Second Language Acquisition

My first language, or "mother" language, is English, and I can&acute;t remember learning any bit of it as a child...

TEFL Language Acquisition and Language Learning

Everyone agrees that learning a second language is more difficult than picking up our native language...

TEFL First Language Acquisition versus Second Language Acquisition

When observing children, the speed and accuracy to which they acquire their native language is quite remarkable to adults...

TEFL 1st vs 2nd Language Acquisition

Stephen Krashen differentiates between the concepts of language acquisition and language learning in this way: He likens the process of language acquisition to adolescents and young adults living outside of their native country in a year long exchange program where they attain near native fluency but remain unfamiliar with phonology and/or grammar rules...

TEFL 1st Language vs. 2nd Language Acquisition

Language acquisition is the process by which language ability develops in humans...

TEFL Learning Modes-Young learners vs adults

When you walk into a classroom of beginning learners, you will quickly notice that the activities are varied, exciting, and typically short lived, in hopes to keep the attention of the energized and full of life students...

TEFL English as a global language

Global English? in a sociolinguistic context refers almost literally to the use of English as a global language http://www...

TEFL English ascending as a world language

According to Wikipedia...

TEFL English as a global language

Wherever one travels in the world these days English quickly becomes the the common language of communication between different nationalities...

TEFL English as a global language

Language and culture are inextricable extensions of each other...

TEFL English on an International Scale

The rise of TEFL, TESOL, CELTA, and similar organizations is by no doubt a reflection of the increasing demand for English to be taught in numerous countries worldwide...

TEFL Going Global with English

Faster than global Starbucks addiction, English is sweeping the Planet...

TEFL English as a Global Language

The 19th century witnessed the onset of the industrial revolution, given rise through a symbiosis with advanced means of conducting intercontinental trade...

TEFL English as a Global Language

Linguists estimate that there are about 5,000 to 6,000 languages spoken in the world today, and this large estimate is due to the fact that some dialects are evolving into what could be considered a separate language (www...

TEFL English as a Global Language

English is currently spoken by more people all over the world than any other language...

TEFL English As A Global Language

English is the only language that can claim to have a truly global reach...

TEFL British English vs American English

Giving English to an American is like giving sex to a child...

TEFL English, Japalish and Americalish

I would like to briefly consider the complexity of a non ? native English teacher in contrast to a native English teacher...

TEFL Pronunciation differences between English and Americans

Introdution English Pronunciation: How does it differ and why? We??re all native English speakers aren??t we, what??s all this about sounding different? Everyone knows that a guy from the states sounds different to a fellow from England...

TEFL British English vs American English

The English language first came to America, when it was colonised by the British Empire in the late 16th century...

TEFL British English vs. American English

"British English vs...

TEFL British vs American English

One of the more noticeable differences between students on the TEFL course is the different uses of the English language...

TEFL Problems facing learners of different nationalities

Introduction Considering the difficulties that learners from different backgrounds are faced with is appropriate because I will soon embark on a teaching career which will bring me in contact with many people from different backgrounds and the challenges they face in mastering the English language...

TEFL Teaching People of A Different Culture

When considering the importance of the role of a teacher, what then is the importance of how they teach when faced with different and diverse cultures? First, we must look to the definition of culture itself: ?A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole...

TEFL Difference between formal and non-formal language

To discuss the differences between formal and non-formal language, it must first be clarified that this does not necessarily relate to the use of ?slang? terms or idioms...

TEFL An unobjective, biased take on the English language

There is no such thing as Canadian English?[it] is a myth, fabricated to reinforce a fragile Canadian identity...

TEFL The German language in modern spoken American English

In the 1990 United States census , 60 million Americans identified themselves as being of ?German? descent...

TEFL Peculiarities of the English Language

The English language was created in England...

TEFL English as a global language

English is rapidly becoming the dominant global language...

TEFL The peculiarities of the English Language

The English language is undisputedly one of the most challenging languages to learn, predominantly due to the vast number of inconsistencies and frequent irregularities and exceptions to the rule (am almost clich?d term)...

TEFL Dyslexia

Dyslexia causes difficulties in many specific areas of learning...

TEFL Syllabus design

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to...

TEFL Effective Modern Syllabus Design

The syllabus often represents the first tangible link between an instructor and students, and, therefore, it should be constructed with appropriate time and energy...

TEFL Child Development

As a parent and an educator I have learned much about child development and am learning more everyday...

TEFL Multiple intelligence

The theory of multiple intelligences was proposed by Dr...

TEFL The use of muliple intelligences in education

The theory of multiple intelligences was developed by a professor of education at Harvard University, by the name of Dr...

TEFL Mulitiple intelligences

In 1983, Dr...

TEFL Multiple Intelligences in the ESL Classroom

In 1904 the French government commissioned psychologist Alfred Binet to find a method to distinguish between children?s levels of intelligence...

TEFL Intelligence Testing - I.Q. versus Multiple Intelligences

The most prominent form of intelligent testing in modern life is I...

TEFL Multiple Intelligences

Howard Gardner is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a renowned author; his theory of multiple intelligences is a critique of the notion that there exists but a single human intelligence that can be assessed by standard psychometric instruments...

TEFL Multiple Intelligences

Howard Gardner?s (1983, 1998) multiple intelligences theory (MIT) postulates the existence of eight intelligences on the basis of ?distinct sets of processing operations applied in (culturally valued) activities?...

TEFL Cultural Sensitivity in the Classroom

Teaching is the highest form of understanding...

TEFL Cultural differences

While teaching English as a foreign language it is very important that the teacher or instructor take on board the cultural differences and discrepancies that occur between different societies...

TEFL Cultural sensitivity in the classroom

As an ESL teacher one of the biggest challenges I have had to face is cultural sensitivity...

TEFL Cultural sensitivity in the classroom

The Cambridge online dictionary defines culture as ?the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a particular time?...

TEFL Dictionary Training

One of the worst teaching experience is having a class come to an abrupt halt while someone searches a dictionary for a specific word, one usually not found in the end anyway...

TEFL Paper Dictionary vs. PEDs

I can imagine a classroom full of students using their PEDs (portable electronic dictionaries) while the teacher stands nearby listening to the beeps and electronic voices translating various words...

TEFL for non native English speaking teachers

The human mind loves simplicity and to generalize complicated matters...

TEFL for non native English speaking teachers

TEFL or Teaching English as a Foreign Language refers to teaching English to students for whom it is not their mother tongue...

TEFL Teaching Grammar

Teaching grammar can be one of the most frustrating aspects of an English teacher?s job description...

TEFL Teaching Grammar

A recent study suggests that teaching grammar to schoolchildren has no discernible effect on their writing skills, so why should it be of any more use in the ELT classroom?? asks Luke Meddings in an article on Friday February 4, 2005 in the Guardian Unlimited...

TEFL Teaching Grammar

Grammar is undoubtedly one of the most important aspects of the English language...

TEFL Teaching vocabulary

It is common knowledge that learning grammar can be a complex process...

TEFL Teaching skills in the classroom.

Teaching skills are a combination of knowledge personality and judgement...

TEFL Teaching EFL in a Kindergarten

The role of a kindergarten teacher is very challenging yet highly rewarding...

TEFL Teaching EFL in a Kindgarten

My article is based on personal experiences as I teach a French Kindergarten class on a voluntary basis...

TEFL Teaching students one to one

Teaching English as a foreign language can be done one of two ways: teaching a group of students or by teaching on a one-to-one basis...

TEFL The Challenges And Rewards Of Teaching English To One Person

Universally recognized is the advantage of one teacher for one student...

TEFL Teaching Groups

Teaching students in groups is very common in most classrooms...

TEFL Pronunciation problems in Thailand

During my first week at the TEFL course in Phuket, Thailand, I began to notice that the pronunciation of the Thai students was lacking a bit...

TEFL Pronunciation Problems

Pronunciation problems happen when speaking a second language because most people are used to hearing and making sounds only exist in their mother tongue...

TEFL Pronunciation Problems for Chinese Students of English

As a global language, English has been popularly taught as the second language in China for quite a few years...

TEFL Pronunciation Problems

North American English Pronunciation: Difficulties of the Spanish Speaker<br /><br />The variety of English spoken in North America not only has particular grammatical structures, vocabulary, slang, and orthography, but it also comprises a unique system of pronunciation...

TEFL The difference between teaching one to one and groups

In the words of one-to-one pioneer, Peter Wilberg, &acute;One-to-one teaching is different&acute;...

TEFL Lesson Planning

Lesson planning is one of the most important but controversial aspects of teaching...

TEFL Lesson planning.

What will get in your mind if somebody will tell you about teaching? Isn?t it lesson planning? Most of the teachers despise this job, why? Well, the hardwork of thinking in creating your own materials...

TEFL Volunteer Teaching

The business of teaching English as a second language has grown drastically over the last several decades, and even though it may not be as lucrative an industry as it was several years ago, the sheer number of English teachers has continued to increase...

TEFL Volunteer Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Volunteer teaching can be the most rewarding experience of your life or a total nightmare depending on your expectations and attitude...

TEFL Volunteer teaching

There is something about Volunteer Teaching that is very appealing...

TEFL Establishing rapport in the classroom

The rapport between a teacher and their students plays a very important role in determining if the class will be successful and enjoyable...

TEFL Rapport in the Classroom

The word rapport originates from the French word, rapporter, meaning to bring back and the Oxford English Dictionary definition is one of &#147;a close and harmonious relationship in which there is common understanding&#148;...

TEFL Establishing Rapport

I remember back to my early days of academic progression through the Australian public school system with mixed emotions...

TEFL Establishing Rapport

Rapport is important for building and sustaining a relationship with a student...

TEFL Classroom discipline

A concern related to student behavior and classroom discipline is the ?Level of Law? that is set in place by the teacher for the class...

TEFL Discipline in the classroom

Classroom management is very important, especially for new teachers, because with it a teacher can gain the respect and attention of their students...

TEFL Discipline in the classroom

Discipline in the classroom is many faceted...

TEFL Discipline In The Classroom

Discipline in the classroom is a necessary part of the teaching and learning process...

TEFL Motivation in the Classroom.

As a TEFL educator, I have been faced with various challenges in the classroom...

TEFL Motivation in the Classroom

Motivation can be induced artificially, but its effects then are temporary? (2)...

TEFL Motivation

As I have progressed up the ladder of education, I have found that the teachers I have experienced focused on presenting the class material exacting as it was stated in the book...

TEFL Motivation in the Classroom

Walking into a class full of students who are apathetic and show little or no interest in the subject matter is daunting and discouraging for any teacher...

TEFL Motivation

Motivation is fuel for learning...

TEFL Motivation in the classroom

In the classroom, as in most areas of life, motivation is essential for a person to succeed...

TEFL Slang and idioms

Idiom: groups of two or more words that taken together mean something different from the literal meaning of the individual words...

TEFL Teaching Slang & Idioms

This particular subject appealed to me...

TEFL Teaching Slang and Idioms

Teaching idioms and slang is quite a subjective topic...

TEFL Teaching Slang and Idioms

A question on the minds of many English as a Second Language instructors are whether or not it is appropriate to teach students the use of slang and idioms in the English language...

TEFL Teaching slang and idioms.

A few weeks ago I went up to my Japanese friend and told her ?Good Afternoon? in Japanese...

TEFL Building Teachers Confidence in the Classroom

Anyone who has ever had to stand up in front of a group of people to give a speech knows it can be a daunting task...

TEFL Confidence building for teachers

A some what strange topic to talk about considering I have only taught four lessons but I think that my experiences may be of some use to someone...

TEFL Correction techniques: a grey area

One of the greatest dilemmas facing the English as a Foreign Language teacher today is when, how and what to correct in terms of errors or mistakes made by their students (?Correcting Students,? 1)...

TEFL Assessment and Evaluation

The primary purpose of assessment and evaluation is to improve student learning...

TEFL Teaching modal auxiliary verbs

It was while attempting to wrap my brain around the meaning of the construction "must needs", which I had encountered so often in classical English Literature, that I was incidentally drawn to an inves-tigation of modals...

TEFL Productive skills.

This paper is concerned with teaching the productive skill of writing for students of non-native English speaking countries...

TEFL Games in the classroom

G - Get-together A - Achieve the Aim M - More interest E - Easy Learning Many years ago teaching was only recognized for only getting knowledge but now a days as the world has become modern with different scientific techniques only giving knowledge to the students has become old fashioned...

TEFL ESL Games

In an elementary EFL/ESL class in South Korea, you may begin teaching a class and at the start and you are welcomed with the exclamation from a student &#147;Game teacher!&#148; This could even turn into a chant of &#147;Game, Game, Game&#148; with other students joining in...

TEFL The Importance of Games in a Classroom

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TEFL Games in the classroom

Game can be generally defined that something played for fun an activity that people participate in, together or on their own, for fun...

TEFL Games in the classroom

Learning another language is a difficult process...

TEFL Games in the classroom

Being a teacher is one of the most rewarding and challenging positions in the work force...

TEFL Importance of Games in TEFL

In the teaching of English as a Second Language (ESL), games are very important, with adults and especially with children...

TEFL Games in the classroom

In the following document I hope to demonstrate some the advantages of using games within a classroom environment for game based language learning...

TEFL Games in the ESL and EFL classroom

In a traditional English language classroom the student?s curriculum focuses on grammar, reading, vocabulary and rigid repetitive drills...

TEFL Games in the classroom

The following contain the results of my reading in to sources pertaining to the use of games in English classes...

TEFL Songs in the classroom

The use of songs in the ESL classroom can be a fun and innovative way of covering a range of English language topics...

TEFL Songs in the Classroom

'Red is rojo...

TEFL Songs in the classroom

Learning English can be very confusing to speakers of other languages...

TEFL Songs in classroom

Learning a second language through music...

TEFL Teaching beginners

Teaching beginners is one of the most interesting and ongoing training as a teacher will keep on discovering other techniques in order to capture the understanding of the beginner, rather to make the beginner understand...

TEFL Teaching Efl To Beginners: Initial Approaches & Techniques

This research article will highlight and investigate two major aspects of preparing and starting an EFL course to beginner-level students...

TEFL Teaching English to Beginners

Introduction I have met and spent time with some language teachers here in the U...

TEFL Teaching Monolingual versus Multi-lingual groups

There are two broad categories of situations in which non-native English speakers may learn English...

TEFL The Internet in the Classroom

Teaching EFL in the 21st century increasingly involves teaching students how to sift through and evaluate information in English using the Internet and other new technology...

TEFL EFL vs ESL

When I first decided that traveling and perhaps teaching abroad, were things that I would be interested in; I came across my first real challenge that came in the form of a decision- ? [w]hich is better, EFL or ESL??...

TEFL Barriers and Benefits of Computer Assisted Language Learning or CALL

Computers have been used for teaching languages since the 1960s...

TEFL Comparative Teaching Methodologies

There are a number of methods and approaches for teaching language to non-native speakers...

TEFL ESA: A teaching methodology

For many years Teachers of English have used the PPP model of Presentation, Practice and Production for the preferred model of teaching...

E. S. A

What is E...

TEFL Power-up Your ESA

The Engage, Study & Activate framework (ESA) (Course Materials, unit 3) is an organizational framework that will create lesson plans that ensures students will “be motivated, be exposed to the language, and have the opportunity to use it...

TEFL Teaching English for a Specific Purpose (ESP)

Teaching English for a Specific Purpose (ESP) or Why not just teach?em Shakespeare? TEFL teaching in the classroom has maninly been focused on leaning General English skills with more specific English, needed for a specific profession for example, being taught only as and when it is needed...

TEFL Teaching Styles

When I was growing up in school, I experienced many different teaching styles that for the most part did not work for me...

TEFL Role of the teacher

The role of the teacher may not be as simple as people think and is always changing...

TEFL The Role Of The Teacher

The role of the teacher has significantly changed for past few years due to advent of new technology...

TEFL Motivation

Motivation is a paramount factor in determining the success or failure of learning...

TEFL Motivating Your Students

Have you ever had trouble with a student unwilling to participate in the classroom, a student that no matter how hard you to inspire seems to remain unmotivated? This type of occurrence is very common in the classroom today...

TEFL Motivating Students

Motivation is necessary to keep students happy and interested amidst a language learning situation that progressively challenges them...

TEFL Motivating Students in the English Language Classroom

General educational psychologists believe there are three main sources of motivation for students, and these directly apply to students of the English language...

TEFL Motivating young learners

Although, at the beginning of an English course, students can be very excited and enthusiastic when first confronted with their teacher, the person who will introduce them to a new, fascinating, foreign language, as time goes by the sense of novelty and curiosity that seemed so strong at the beginning, seem to gradually subside in the eyes of the pupils, especially those of young age, leaving the teacher with the sometimes difficult task of re-building their general interest in learning and not least, their level of motivation, which in nearly all warps of life, is the key to success...

TEFL Motivating Students

Motivation ? ?a feeling of interest or enthusiasm that makes somebody want to do something that causes such a feeling? Encarta Dictionary: English Student motivation is required in the classroom for obvious reasons ? they have to feel that they want to learn to help with the learning process...

TEFL Motivating students

Inspiring a high level of motivation among students of all ages and maintaining it, is an ongoing challenge for even the most experienced and skilled teachers...

TEFL Teaching Large Classes

Findings in many of the past studies do indeed suggest that small- sized classes are indeed more effective that larger classes...

TEFL Teaching mixed ability classes

Students come from all walks of life, no person is the same whether it?s personality, ability or background...

TEFL Teaching Classes of Mixed Abilities

When individuals are grouped together, especially in a learning environment, there will always be a mixture of abilities...

TEFL Problems encountered teaching Business English

The study of business is a study of communication...

TEFL Teaching Business English

With the changing nature of the world today learning English is becoming more and more important in the business sector...

TEFL Building confidence in Students

One by one, they followed his signal to move forward, crouching behind trees, navigating through the brush, quickening their pace as they heard threats screamed behind them: "I see you, GI! They paused in a dried-up creek bed, Bennett bringing up the rear...

TEFL Seating arrangements in the classroom

There are many different schools of thought concerning seating arrangements in TEFL classrooms...

TEFL Things I wish I had known before starting the course.

To embark upon yet another career at the ripe old >?age of 51, may seem like madness to most people...

TEFL My TEFL experience in Phuket, Thailand.

All canny religions and TEFL is no exception, offer confession and then redemption...

TEFL Course Experience

I started the course on 8/1/07...

TEFL Group dynamics

Humans have worked in groups since the beginnings of civilisation however it is only in the last century that research has focused on the dynamics that occur in group encounters and a deeper understanding of the way individuals behave in a group setting has emerged...

TEFL Group Dynamics

An understanding of the concept of group dynamics provides valuable insight into the processes involved in a successful group lesson...

TEFL Foreign Language Experience

There are many different methodologies for teaching a foreign language...

TEFL Foreign Language Experience

The usual form taken in a classroom to teach a foreign language involves mostly vocabulary and a progressive curriculum that warrants more memorization and translation than use and understanding...

TEFL Foreign Language Experience

I went to France when I was fourteen and I didn?t speak any French...

TEFL Online learning

The evolution of the internet has led to an increase in online learning opportunities for EFL students...

TEFL Bilingual Education versus English Only Models

Over the years, many debates have arisen in regards to second language instruction (L2), giving prominence to two main models: English Only versus Bilingual Education...

TEFL Alexical approach to second language learning

Over the past four decades it appears that the advanced development of computers and the ready availability of this technology have led to an interest in a lexical approach to second language learning versus the more traditional grammar based approach...

TEFL The present and future roll of TEFL in Thailand

Britain is the home of high quality English language teaching and is joining forces in a new and enlarged professional association called English UK, backed by the British Council...

TEFL Teacher self analysis

Whenever the discussion arises ?What makes a good teacher??, various theories and suggestions concerning a teacher?s personality and his/her relationship with pupils are laid on the table...

TEFL A comparative look at Teaching Children vs. Adults

Teaching English has become a major industry worldwide, with countless adult and child students enrolled in courses worldwide...

TEFL Conducting a Student Profile, and Receiving A Lot More

You learn a lot in your classes, but you can?t learn about human relationships and about life from a book...

TEFL Preconceptions

sn?t it funny how our preconceptions are often way off course? Certain things we?re preconditioned to think, be it because of cultural influences, peer/family influence or experiences, and, more often than not, we don?t question these; Tesco and Wal-Mart are Mecca?s; McDonald?s food tastes amazing; being quiet makes you a good student...

TEFL A discursive essay on recognising and considering the importance of learning styles in the EFL classroom.

How important is the student in the process of designing a lesson plan? Once a lesson plan is composed, should the teacher stick rigidly to every step detailed, ploughing through even if students fall behind, miss the point and inevitably lose interest -and faith ?V in what the teacher has to say? Personally, the author believes that the lesson is not the focus of the classroom, rather the student is...

TEFL The Changing Role of a Teacher

The role of a teacher has changed more dramatically in the past half century then in anytime in previous history...

TEFL International Mispronunciation

The English language is spoken in many countries throughout the world...

TEFL Learning Techniques

Learning is the process of gaining or acquiring knowledge while technique comes from the Latin word technicus which means execution or performance of some artistic work or a scientific procedure being used [Orford American Dictionary, Mac OS X dashboard]...

TEFL The Multiethnic Classroom

Understanding diversity in the classroom is of high importance for teachers...

TEFL Teachers roles

Teachers play an important role in today?s society, as they work hard to train the minds of the future...

TEFL A Diverse Classroom- Teaching to All Students

Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common...

TEFL Navigating Through a Foreign-Language-Classroom: Non-Verbal Vocalics

Navigating Through a Foreign-Language-Classroom: Non-Verbal Vocalics Teaching in a foreign country and to students that do not understand English poses as a tedious endeavor...

TEFL Field Research: Student Evaluations

In September of 2006, I had the opportunity to teach conversational English to graduate students at Huazhong University in China...

TEFL Applications for my TEFL certification course

The following paper is a variation on the ?What I wish I had known before the course? topic...

TEFL Punctuation ? Another Hurdle For The Learner Of English, Or A Dying Art?

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, stop...

TEFL Teaching English in Korea

After spending the last year in Korea I feel sharing my experiences there will be of great assistance to any ESL teachers who are considering or have accepted a position in the country...

TEFL Should Students Be Allowed to Use Their Native Language in the Classroom?

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