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Tips on Teaching Reading to EFL Students One-to-One - TEFL Blog
Tue, 09 Mar 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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Tips on Teaching Reading to EFL Students One-to-One
Reading is one of the two receptive language skills that might seem easier to teach. When learning to read in a foreign language, a student doesn't have to deal with accents or pronunciation problems, as it often happens with speaking and listening. What's more, learning reading skills does not necessarily imply high teacher participation and can generally be done independently. Much as with writing, it might seem tempting to relegate most of reading to homework, especially in one-to-one teaching. The easier way isn't always the best one, and paying enough attention to this aspect of English during one's lessons offers many benefits.
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Readers Are Leaders: How to Instill a Love for Reading in Children? - TEFL Blog
Mon, 17 Jul 2023 Federico Riva
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Readers Are Leaders: How to Instill a Love for Reading in Children?
Children usually prioritize their joy and prefer rewarding activities. They are more interested in reading when it is rewarding and beneficial to them. Interestingly, children learning a second language find it easier to learn reading compared to those who are learning to read for the first time. This is because young second language (L2) learners have already experienced that reading can be interesting and entertaining. By making reading in a second language interesting, students are likely to be motivated.
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Text Difficulty and Vocabulary Support
Setting Achievable Reading Goals
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6 Great Ideas for Developing Vocabulary in English Learners - TEFL Blog
Mon, 28 Sep 2020 Zainab Sadriwala
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6 Great Ideas for Developing Vocabulary in English Learners
Exposure to a language is of prime importance if one intends to excel in it. Like every language, English needs to be practiced in all its integrated skills of reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Vocabulary has always been among a key component of language learning that teachers rely on. The following are 6 great ideas for developing vocabulary in English learners.
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Keep a journal of newly learned words
Read newspapers
Watch documentaries
Play word games
Vocabulary lessons
Practice usage
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7 Activities for Teaching Modal Auxiliary Verbs in the ESL Classroom - TEFL Blog
Tue, 11 Sep 2018 Simon ITTT
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7 Activities for Teaching Modal Auxiliary Verbs in the ESL Classroom
The number of combinations of modals and usages is enormous, so TEFL certified teachers often spend a lot of time trying to find an activity that suits their particular teaching point. Here, we give you some adaptable ideas which should save you time thinking or searching, assuming you already have good grammatical knowledge of the subject and a little bit of creativity.
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Language Tennis
Mill-drill/Mingling
Group Discussions or Debates
Board Games
Information Exchange
Draw the Sentence
Marked Up Dice
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Let's Talk about Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) - TEFL Blog
Mon, 12 Apr 2021 Ahmed Taha
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Let's Talk about Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT)
This article explains what TBLT is and how it differs from more traditional approaches to teaching. Why has it become such a popular teaching method for languages? Will it continue to be popular or will it be replaced by another approach?
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Do you use TBLT in your teaching? What are the challenges and benefits of the approach?
Why do you think that a task-based approach in teaching is considered a good approach?
What is a task?
Rod Ellis' description is especially useful because it focuses on the role as:
Three major characteristics of tasks are defined in the description.
Conclusion
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9 Small Details That Matter When Teaching EFL - TEFL Blog
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 Linda Dunsmore
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9 Small Details That Matter When Teaching EFL
When you teach English as a foreign language it's important to pay attention to details that we sometimes ignore when communicating with other native level speakers, either in spoken or written English. Some people have got into the habit of writing in uppercase/capital letters, use abbreviations, and don't think much about punctuation. We also tend not to be too critical of people's spoken English as long as we get the point across. 'There's a lot of cars on the road today' is grammatically incorrect for example.
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1. Punctuation
2. Upper and Lowercase
3. Abbreviations
4. Use of Colour on the Board
5. Avoid Boring Gap-Fills
6. Avoid Changing What Students Say
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