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The Benefits and Drawbacks of Volunteer Teaching - TEFL Blog
Thu, 19 Sep 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
The Benefits and Drawbacks of Volunteer Teaching
As both an individual tutor and group teacher of High Beginning Conversational English for the ESL division of Literacy New Jersey, I have become familiar with the benefits and drawbacks of volunteer teaching. While the drawbacks can be challenging, the rewards of volunteer teaching far outweigh any drawbacks that I have encountered.
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My Personal Experience
Benefits
Challenges
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How Can English Influence a Student's Career - TEFL Blog
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
How Can English Influence a Student's Career
English is my first language, however, I studied Spanish throughout high school growing up in the Midwest and eventually received a Master's degree in Spanish Literature. I learned to speak Spanish very well after becoming a high school Spanish teacher for eight years and then a principal for elementary and secondary schools for 26 more years speaking Spanish to new immigrant students and parents the whole time.
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Bilingualism
Confidence
Advantages and Perspectives
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Let's Talk about Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) - TEFL Blog
Mon, 12 Apr 2021 Ahmed Taha
TEFL Information Teaching Ideas
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.
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