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Classroom is a Stage and Teacher is an Actor - TEFL Blog
Sat, 15 Jun 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Classroom is a Stage and Teacher is an Actor
A teacher must assume many different roles as they perform the task of teaching both during the lesson and outside the lesson. By outside the lesson, I am referring to the Lesson Planning, materials to be used set up and classroom organization. During the lesson is, of course, the actual teaching of the students. As listed in Unit 2 there are 6 roles in total including Instructor, Facilitator, Mentor, Psychologist, Counsellor, and Policeman. These roles are true for all levels of teaching and are modified to suit the age and level of the students. In the case of teaching Younger Learners, it is very important to consider their age in terms of attention span, interests and sense of... [Read more]
TEFL South Korea - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ Tefl Positions In Seoul And Other Parts Of Korea
TEFL Positions in Seoul and Other Parts of Korea
Date posted:2019-07-23 | Writer: RISE Education Korea | Email: [email protected]
RISE Education has regular opportunities in Korea for EFL teachers looking to gain valuable experience with a global leader in innovative education. Rise was founded on the strong beliefs of our CEO, Barry O’Callaghan for the need to change the way we teach young learners and prepare them for a new global future. The Rise Program, through the Rise Educational Centers, addresses this need for change and has delivered tremendous outcomes in both English fluency and improved social and leadership skills. The brand has an international presence in countries like China, India, South Korea, Vietnam, Japan, Indonesia and The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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TEFL Korea - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ Tefl Positions In Seoul And Other Parts Of Korea
TEFL Positions in Seoul and Other Parts of Korea
Date posted:2019-07-23 | Writer: RISE Education Korea | Email: [email protected]
RISE Education has regular opportunities in Korea for EFL teachers looking to gain valuable experience with a global leader in innovative education. Rise was founded on the strong beliefs of our CEO, Barry O’Callaghan for the need to change the way we teach young learners and prepare them for a new global future. The Rise Program, through the Rise Educational Centers, addresses this need for change and has delivered tremendous outcomes in both English fluency and improved social and leadership skills. The brand has an international presence in countries like China, India, South Korea, Vietnam, Japan, Indonesia and The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Personal Teaching Experience: Practice in Shanghai
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In this blog post, our recent TEFL graduate shares their experience of teaching in Shanghai, China.
Several Ways a Teacher Can Act in The Classroom
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In this blog post, our recent TEFL graduate shares their thoughts on the teacher's role in the classroom.
The Power of English in The Global Community
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In this blog post, our recent TEFL graduate shares their thoughts on the global power of English.
3 Key Ways to Build Your Teaching Career From Scratch
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6 Teaching Skills to Support Your Students Learning Process - TEFL Blog
Mon, 20 May 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
6 Teaching Skills to Support Your Students Learning Process
It's my dream to be a teacher since I was a little girl. It's so lucky, I became an English teacher after I graduated from school. I like my job, I always prepared a lot before my class, such as materials, flashcards, teaching plan and so on. Because I hope my students will enjoy my class and gain knowledge through my class.
Table of Contents
1. Attitude
2. Sense of Humor
3. Lesson Structure
4. Teaching Approach
5. Games and Activities
6. Encouragement
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3 Stress Relief Strategies to Help Students in the ESL Classroom - TEFL Blog
Fri, 22 Nov 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
3 Stress Relief Strategies to Help Students in the ESL Classroom
Like many other subjects, learning a foreign language is a cumulative process. What you learn during one lesson or study session will build upon what you learned previously. Learning a new language especially English is not easy. A lot of students struggle to face the confusion and difficulty of English. English being particularly popular can be hard at times for several reasons. This essay discusses the way teachers should do to help their students get rid of the pressure of learning English.
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1. Encouragement
2. Homework Reduction
3. Appealing Materials
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Ways to Encourage ESL Students: Common Fears and Challenges - TEFL Blog
Thu, 13 Aug 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Ways to Encourage ESL Students: Common Fears and Challenges
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Michela C. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
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I'm afraid of making a mistake
But it's too difficult/easy
I'm very shy/insecure
How will I know if I'm getting better?
What can I do to be a good student?
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What Makes You a Favorite Teacher - TEFL Blog
Mon, 12 Aug 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
What Makes You a Favorite Teacher
All children must go to school. It's the law. All children are entrusted to teachers. It's like that. Some of these students love school, some do not. Some children will learn more easily than others and many children will like school and will learn more easily if they like their teacher.
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The torch of knowledge
As a role model:
Managing the classroom:
The parents
Not perfect, teachers?
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Key Ways to Motivate Students from Young Learners to Adults - TEFL Blog
Thu, 23 May 2019 Jon ITTT
Alumni Experiences
Key Ways to Motivate Students from Young Learners to Adults
As we all know, motivation is a core aspect of teaching and learning a language. Lack of motivation is perhaps the biggest obstacle that we face as students and teachers. If a student lacks motivation, he/she will not pay attention in the class or will simply find it boring. At the same time if a teacher lacks motivation to teach he/she will be unable to attract students' attention and give them all they need. Let us be honest and say that intelligent students are those, who always eagerly attend class and enjoy the process. Here we need a highly motivated teacher who is willing help them. In this article I divide students into several categories because different situations... [Read more]
Why the Chinese Accent is so Difficult to Minimize in English - TEFL Blog
Fri, 08 May 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Why the Chinese Accent is so Difficult to Minimize in English
As an aspirant teaching English to Chinese children, I chose 'Pronunciation problems of Chinese people' as the most attractive and the most useful topic for my summative task at this moment.
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So let's begin from the very beginning.
The Second difficulty in pronunciation is so-called dark L or L's with no vowel sound after them.
How can the teacher help students to correct this?
Different Approaches
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The Utmost Importance of Phonetics and Phonology - TEFL Blog
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
The Utmost Importance of Phonetics and Phonology
Speech has been used to communicate and express many things since the dawn of man. When we look at wildlife, we can see a pattern in a speech similar to human communication. To truly understand science speech, we must look deeper at the concept of communication.
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Why Speech is Important?
Word Stress
Speech and Communication
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Why Speech is Important?
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Liza is a translator, freelancer and ESL teacher from Russia. She had been teaching in a Chinese bilingual school for more than two years and recently moved to Thiland to run her blog about teaching and freelance job.
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Top Tips For Teaching English Through Stories | ITTT | TEFL Blog
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In this blog post, our recent TEFL graduate shares their thoughts on teaching English with the help of stories.
Teaching and Learning Through Multiple Intelligences | ITTT | TEFL Blog
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Alumni Experiences
In this blog post, our recent TEFL graduate shares their thoughts on teaching English with the help of multiple intelligences theory.
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Alumna Experience: ✅How My Teaching Skills Improved Throughout The Teaching Career - TEFL Blog
Fri, 05 Mar 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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Alumna Experience: ✅How My Teaching Skills Improved Throughout The Teaching Career
For the past four years, I have worked in Japan as an Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) of English. Before this, I had limited experience operating in a conventional classroom, teaching young learners. I trained adults who were self-motivated and designed curricula for vocation institutions. Now, outside of my expertise, here I am teaching at a junior high school – my base school and an elementary school.
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My Role as an Assistant Language Teacher of English
Students' Motivation
Classroom Culture
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Difficulties for Teachers Teaching South Korean Students - TEFL Blog
Sun, 19 May 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Difficulties for Teachers Teaching South Korean Students
Before starting my TEFL course to gain a more professional basis, I worked as an English teacher in South Korea for about one year. In this short essay, I will explain some of the most prominent difficulties South Korean students seem to face when learning English.
Table of Contents
Education system
Differences in the phonetic systems of Korean and English
Syntactic differences
Korean culture
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Education system
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Teaching Techniques and Roles of a Teacher in an ESL Setting - TEFL Blog
Tue, 14 Jan 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Teaching Techniques and Roles of a Teacher in an ESL Setting
In the language classroom, there are many roles that a teacher should be able to play to be well-rounded. In different situations and problems, a teacher will need to change his/her roles to complement the matter or to solve the conflicts. I would like to discuss a few roles that a teacher would need to play in a classroom: Entertainer, motivator, and leader/manager.
Table of Contents
Attention-grabbing skills
Confident work
Management skills
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The Most Common Issues of Vietnamese Learners of English - TEFL Blog
Mon, 18 May 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
The Most Common Issues of Vietnamese Learners of English
In Vietnam, it is so important and popular that English becomes a compulsory subject for students at schools and universities. Working people also need to learn English for their job, to talk to English speakers or get a new well-paid job.
Table of Contents
During my studies and the process of teaching, I noticed that learners are facing some problems such as:
Pronunciation is the first obstacle because the same have different sounds
Patiency and Knowledge
How to Solve Problems?
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How Developmental Psycholinguistic Research Facilitate Learning of The English Language Phonology For Foreign Students - TEFL Blog
Wed, 10 Jul 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
How Developmental Psycholinguistic Research Facilitate Learning of The English Language Phonology For Foreign Students
Language is a uniquely human cognitive skill. Undeniably animals communicate in a variety of ways: bee dance for honeybees, bird song for aviary species, pheromones for ants, etc. However human language remains unique in its complexity and variety. Human language has the unique characteristic of being able to describe abstract concepts such as love and belief and temporal displacements such as past events or future plans. Even our closest evolutionary relatives are not able to acquire such complex language structures. Scientists have attempted to teach different ape species human language, and despite years of... [Read more]
How I learned Basic Teaching Skills in China - TEFL Blog
Tue, 14 May 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
How I learned Basic Teaching Skills in China
I have been working in China for more than six months now and it's been a very interesting time for me not just to learn more about the country and its people, but also to enrich my teaching skills and grow professionally as a teacher.
Table of Contents
Specific Approach
Assistance
Teaching an extremely large classroom
Total physical response
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Specific Approach
When I arrived in China, I hardly knew anything about specific features of teaching in that country, so I thought that the knowledge I had was quite enough to handle the classes in kindergarten or primary... [Read more]
Problems for Learners of English in Italy - TEFL Blog
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Problems for Learners of English in Italy
Learning a new language can be a wonderful experience. However, its success depends on several factors. Personal propensity above all. By this, I mean interest and passion for whatever language it is we have set our minds to learn. More often than not this propensity involves a sort of an innate talent which makes it easier for some students to master specific language skills. The right hint of motivation goes hand in hand with the environment. At a very early stage, this environment is represented by our teachers, masters, and tutors. Their ability to pass on the interest of another language will be crucial. How are we ever going to enjoy foreign language classes if they are carried out... [Read more]
Five Quality Flashcard Activities and When to Use Them - TEFL Blog
Fri, 07 Aug 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Five Quality Flashcard Activities and When to Use Them
The benefits of using flashcards in the ESL classroom are well-documented. When teachers use flashcards, they typically provide their students with three learning pathways: visual, kinesthetic, and audio (assuming that the exercise requires the students to say something related to the flashcard).
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Reasons to use flashcards
1. Charades
2.Concentration
3. Heads Up
4. Complete the Cube
5. Slap
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How can developmental psycholinguistic research help foreign English students? - TEFL Blog
Mon, 05 Aug 2019 Joanna Dineva
Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
How can developmental psycholinguistic research help foreign English students?
Undeniably animals communicate in a variety of ways: bee dance for honeybees, bird song for aviary species, pheromones for ants, etc. However human language remains unique in its complexity and variety. Human language has the unique characteristic of being able to describe abstract concepts such as love and belief and temporal displacements such as past events or future plans. Even our closest evolutionary relatives are not able to acquire such complex language structures.
Table of Contents
Language is a Uniquely Human Cognitive Skill
L1 Language Acquisition and Selective Hearing for the Sounds of Our Native Tongue
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The Best Times to Teach Slang and Idioms - TEFL Blog
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
The Best Times to Teach Slang and Idioms
While slang and idioms may not be essential to clear communication, especially when their meanings are very different from their packaging, they do communicate something more subtle: 'I'm trying to observe the nuances of your language to better connect with you'. Slang lets you come across as casual, intimidating, clever, or whimsical in ways that straightforward language can't. FluentU English Educating Blog puts it this way: "Teaching Idioms Is Teaching Fluency". Communicating your personality is easier when you are more fluent, or at least when you have more idioms under your belt.
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What's the importance of slang and idioms?
Problems with these lexical units
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5 Communicative ESL Speaking Activities Your Students Will Love - TEFL Blog
Wed, 28 Oct 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
5 Communicative ESL Speaking Activities Your Students Will Love
Speaking activities are essential for English learning as they give a chance to learn new linguistic points, including grammar and real-life listening skills.
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Speaking Cards
Collaborative Discussion
Interview
Giving Directions
Speaking Boardgame
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3 Ways To Learn Daily Casual English at Home - TEFL Blog
Tue, 19 Nov 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
3 Ways To Learn Daily Casual English at Home
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Nicole H. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
Table of Contents
1. TV and Video Resources
2. Labeling Objects
3. Ask Your Child to be a Teacher to You
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One way parents can help their children learn English at home to let them watch television or movies. It may seem to counterproductive to have your child study using entertainment but I believe it's a great, casual learning tool. Find a show or movie that your child really likes and watches often in their target language. In... [Read more]
How to Teach English as a Foreign Language in Kindergarten? - TEFL Blog
Wed, 01 Apr 2020
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Teaching Ideas
How to Teach English as a Foreign Language in Kindergarten?
Children learn fast, that is a fact. Learning a language is their natural skill, which they are born with. We all have gone through that process. There is no teacher needed to teach a kid how to speak, there is no teacher needed to teach a kid how to pronounce e.t.c. Mothers and fathers are not teachers, but they teach their kids how to speak, or maybe kids learn by themselves? In my opinion, communication is one of the very basic needs, which comes naturally. Children need to talk to their mothers, fathers and other people who are around them. Speaking is a result of listening and observing – in this case, family members. Kids learn from people in their environment,... [Read more]
My Diverse TEFL Experience - TEFL Blog
Wed, 11 Sep 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
My Diverse TEFL Experience
My own teaching experience, though not as extensive as many seasoned teachers, is quite diverse. I have taught English class to middle and high school students in the US public school system, worked for an alternative school for students with behavior problems, taught in a language training school, taught in a bilingual Montessori kindergarten, tutored numerous students one-on-one, and I've taught many different kinds of online classes. Currently, I work as a course designer and an actor, filming fun videos to teach Chinese students English through an interactive online app.
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Reasons to leave a public school
Trip to China
What I loved there
Work in an online education start-up
A new... [Read more]
Personal Teaching Experience Shaping into an Adaptable Resilient Teacher - TEFL Blog
Wed, 29 Jul 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Personal Teaching Experience Shaping into an Adaptable Resilient Teacher
Having completed my Bachelor of Arts in Drama, I started my international teaching career straight out of university. What was meant to be a gap year opportunity of traveling and earning money has become a professional career in education spanning over ten years in more than five different countries. What was once a means to an end, has become a passion and a calling.
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Personal Learning Experience
Job Market
Living in South Korea
Teaching Methodology
Teaching in Poland
Working in Turkey
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The Role of Diagnostic Tests in an ESL Curriculum - TEFL Blog
Tue, 22 Aug 2023 Federico Riva
Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
The Role of Diagnostic Tests in an ESL Curriculum
This essay will present a 'teleological analysis' of the use of diagnostic tests in ESL curriculums as a means for achieving larger course objectives. Diagnostic tests are usually given to students at the beginning of a class or at periodic intervals after completing course units as a means which provide a critical link in attaining certain larger course objectives in an ESL course. An ESL curriculum has the objective of introducing and familiarizing speakers of an L1 to an L2, with the final goal of enabling each student in the class to attain the highest possible proficiency in the essential four aspects of language proficiency.
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English Speaking and Writing Errors made by Chinese Primary Students - TEFL Blog
Mon, 27 May 2019 William Noble
Destinations Teaching Ideas
English Speaking and Writing Errors made by Chinese Primary Students
I have been an online ESL teacher to Chinese students for over 13 years, mostly with primary students but also with secondary and adult students. I am also a father and have homeschooled my daughter over her primary years. Like many teachers, I've enjoyed teaching at this level of education as it lays the foundation in English. As it set the foundation, my teaching helped students to overcome common errors in production skills, speaking and writing. Teaching both my daughter and Chinese students at the primary level also helped me also to understand the different expectations between first language and second language students.
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Speaking... [Read more]
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Top Tips for Teaching English to Young Learners
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