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The Most Distinct Differences between American and British English - TEFL Blog
Tue, 05 Feb 2019 Linda Dunsmore
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The Most Distinct Differences between American and British English
When it comes to learning English, non-native speakers can feel quite torn on whether they should learn British English or American English. They have their similarities, but can contrast each other strongly. The differences can be confusing for English speakers as well. The diversity in spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary can really throw you off. In this article, I will be focusing on these three topics. Let's explore spelling, shall we?
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Important Spelling Differences
Differences in Word Choice
Same Word - Different Pronunciation
Other Things to Consider
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Phonetics and Phonology in the ESL Classroom - TEFL Blog
Wed, 19 Feb 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Phonetics and Phonology in the ESL Classroom
What is phonology? Most students have not even heard about it. Whenever I ask my students whether they know or have ever learned about phonetics, the same answers come out, "No, we don't know about it at all". It is no wonder they reply like this because there is no phonetic teaching lesson in English classes from KG to high school here in my country. As for me, I got to study about this only when I attended college. Even then, it wasn't taught comprehensively and I only learned very little. So I couldn't read nor write phonetic symbols very well. Thus I thought it was the most difficult part of studying English.
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Reading as a Key to Language Acquisition - TEFL Blog
Wed, 11 Mar 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Reading as a Key to Language Acquisition
Reading is one of the receptive skills with the other one being a listening skill. According to some scholars, the acquisition of language is believed to be a natural way of acquiring knowledge and learning is that acquired in the classroom. However, for this summative task, I am treating the two the same.
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Ways of Acquiring a Language
Reader's Approach to Reading
Parents' Role
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V.A. - U.S.A. said:
Pronunciation problems VietnamMany experts in linguistics agree that in vietnam pronunciation is the weakest area. Many people find Vietnamese English speakers incomprehensible. The main problem is in word final consonants. Some articles state that cluster consonants are as big a problem but we will focus on word final consonants specifically (s) and (z) a voiceless and voiced pair respectively. Most articles with foundational research have complex... [Read more]
The Most Common Problems Students in Italy Face When Learning English - TEFL Blog
Sat, 24 Nov 2018 Linda Dunsmore
Alumni Experiences
The Most Common Problems Students in Italy Face When Learning English
According to the EF English Proficiency Index, in the year 2017 Italy ranked last - among European countries - in English proficiency skills. Being an Italian myself and having studied foreign languages up to my Master's Degree, I have progressively grown aware of the main factors which cause Italy to perform so poorly. Other than grammatical gaps, which are not to be analyzed in this context, I have noticed how the extremely limited exposition to spoken words can affect not only the students' ability to understand and follow conversations or arguments, but even the possibility for them to be understood when trying to speak.
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The Challenges of Teaching EFL as a Non-Native Speaker - TEFL Blog
Fri, 14 Feb 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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The Challenges of Teaching EFL as a Non-Native Speaker
The status of English as a global language or lingua-franca owes to several diverse factors. As the world has become increasingly globalized, the demand for learning and teaching English has increased drastically and continues to grow. People from all over the world come to seek opportunities in education in the EFL/ESL industry. In this essay, I will attempt to explore the challenges of teaching EFL as a non-native speaker. A further aim in this summative essay is to conduct a general comparison between native and non-native English-speaking teachers (known as NESTs and NNESTs). I will look at this from the perspective of the EFL classroom in Taiwan and will discuss the... [Read more]
Challenges of Teaching Japanese Students - TEFL Blog
Tue, 24 Mar 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Challenges of Teaching Japanese Students
I think teaching is very rewarding, but teaching children are even more rewarding.
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Cultural Sensitivity
Teaching Children and Adults
Lesson Planning
Teaching Pronunciation
Challenges of Teaching Youngsters
Teaching Teenagers and Adults
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I don't think there's anything more beautiful in being able to be part of a child's growth by following the development of his mind and his abilities. The fact that our students are young do n' t mean at all that the teacher should underestimate or overlook something, rather it is one more reason to give the best of yourself.
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There Is No L (And Other Differences Between Japanese and English) - TEFL Blog
Fri, 18 Oct 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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There Is No L (And Other Differences Between Japanese and English)
Throughout high school and college, I mainly focused on learning how to speak Japanese as my second language. Unlike English, Japanese is a fairly phonetic language. Two of its three writing systems, hiragana and katakana, are phonetic. This makes it easy for foreigners to learn because each syllable, also known as sound clusters in some circles, is almost always said exactly how it is spelled. The third writing system, kanji, is not and, as such, is much more difficult for foreigners to learn because kanji are essentially pictures that describe their meaning. They are much more difficult to learn and use in everyday speech.
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Problems For Adult English Learners From Turkey - TEFL Blog
Fri, 25 Oct 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Problems For Adult English Learners From Turkey
Learning the English language during adult years is a specific process when a student has reached a certain age, got some kind of profession (occupation), and decided for some specific reasons to learn (improve) English language.
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Specific purposes
Misconception
Lack of Confidence
Belief in Cultural Difference
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Z.N. - Malaysia said:
Problems_for_Learners_in_MalaysiaMalaysia is a mulitracial and multicultural country, and English would most often be taught to a multilingual, rather than a monolingual group. There have also been recent debates on whether English should be taught as a second or foreign language, with a suggestion that it should be as a second language in the urban areas, and as a foreign language in rural areas, because English is spoken more widely in the cities,... [Read more]
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C.S - Thailand said:
TEFL for non native speakersI?m a thai national born and raised in thailand. Being a non native english speaker, I?ve faced many difficulties in learning and understanding English since the beginning. Pronunciation was difficult, grammar was difficult, and I believe learning and just REMEMBERING all the tenses, modals, and verb forms would have been nearly impossible without the fortunate help I had from many American, Filipino, and European friends,... [Read more]
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A.C. - Korea said:
Phonetics/Phonology Phonology is the study of the sounds by speakers of a particular language. A phoneme is a sound that makes a difference in meaning in a language. Since all students who study language need to be able to perceive and create the sounds that make up words, it is obvious how important the role of phonological knowledge is in learning a second language. Freeman and Freeman (2004) believe that ?students learning English as a second language... [Read more]
Why is Pronunciation Important in Teaching Business English? - TEFL Blog
Fri, 03 Apr 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Why is Pronunciation Important in Teaching Business English?
Nowadays, English is becoming popular due to advanced technology and more people receiving higher education. That Goods, capital, services, people and even knowledge travels around the world make a common and standard language necessary. English is an ideal one. However, when people do business, they still talk most. A standard or conceivable accent is the first step towards a successful deal. This passage aims at emphasizing the importance of pronunciation in teaching business English. Generally speaking, teaching pronunciation specifically is good for students learning and career development. It is also good for teachers to earn more popularity as well as the... [Read more]
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A.J. - Japan said:
Problems for Learners in JapanEnglish is a compulsory subject in all japanese schools and is studied for a minimum of seven years if not longer. Very few of these students, however, will become proficient enough to be considered at an advanced and in many cases not even an intermediate level. Those few that do excel at English are students that are motivated from outside of the classroom and/or have spent time abroad in a country where English is commonly... [Read more]
The Importance of Teaching Slang to ESL Students - TEFL Blog
Wed, 22 Jan 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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The Importance of Teaching Slang to ESL Students
In January, I stood in front of a class of breakthrough English students at a university in Bogotá, Colombia. I'd never taught students in an ESL classroom before, but I was pretty confident having seven years of experience under my belt and a degree in literature. I was naive. I began the lesson with the class that my co-teacher had lent me for the first time. The objective of the lesson was to practice using past tense through storytelling; five minutes into it, I called on a student with his hand in the air. " What up, My Nigga!" He said it and I almost lost all of my composure on the first day while I should have been thinking about building rapport.
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Grammar as The Soul of The English Language - TEFL Blog
Tue, 09 Mar 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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Grammar as The Soul of The English Language
Learning a new language can be many things: memorizing new words, understanding foreign movies and foreign music, meeting foreigners, playing fun games, enrich our unique culture, exercising our brains, or getting a new job, but overall learning a new language is structuring our thoughts in a new different form. Speaking a new language means thinking about our communication with new structures. Those structures are called language grammar. Thus grammar is the soul of the language.
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What's it like learning a foreign language
Communication
What is Grammar
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Is Peer Learning Useful in an ESL Classroom? - TEFL Blog
Wed, 25 Dec 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Is Peer Learning Useful in an ESL Classroom?
I believe that peer learning can be very helpful in English as a Second Language classroom. I believe that as a language learner there is nothing more helpful than learning from people around you. I have found that humans are very social beings just by the nature of being human. I believe that we learn best by interacting with people and that this translates especially when learning other languages. I think that it is very beneficial for students at any level to learn from each other to build their skills in every way. I think that having students talk to each other is important for improving verbal communication and that having peers correct each other's papers is a great way to help all... [Read more]
The Most Common Problems Students in Russia Face When Learning English - TEFL Blog
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 Jon ITTT
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The Most Common Problems Students in Russia Face When Learning English
It is not a secret for anyone that native speakers of any language always easily identify "non-native" when they hear at least a few words spoken by them. Often native speakers are able to fairly accurately determine the country from which the person came, based on his pronunciation. This happens due to the fact that it is common for all of us to use the sounds of our native language in the pronunciation of words of a foreign language, as well as to use articulation models we know from childhood the position of the organs of speech (lips, tongue, etc.).
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Rules of Phonetics and Phonology in ESL Teaching - TEFL Blog
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Rules of Phonetics and Phonology in ESL Teaching
In my experience tutoring students in English as a foreign language, the most overlooked learning points were undoubtedly phonetics, phonology, and their connection to pronunciation. Occasionally, there would be a few students who specifically asked for materials that would allow them to perfect or improve their English accent. Some students even requested to receive tutoring in different accents such as the Australian accent. No matter what the request was, it became clear to me over time that the missing link when teaching pronunciation was its connection to phonology and phonetics. From this point on, I became incredibly interested in this topic.
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Z.K. - USA said:
British English American EnglishThere are myriad differences between English as it is used in the united kingdom and English as it is used in the united states. These differences have developed over centuries from a common root. While some may believe that American English diverged from British English, which has remained unchanged, this is not the case. Both dialects have mutated over the years and that is what accounts for their differences more than anything... [Read more]
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V.R. & P.L - Laos said:
British English vs American EnglishIntro
English is spoken worldwide, either as the mother tongue or second language. Consequently a substantial variety of different dialects exist in the English language. Two most widely recognised of these dialects used when teaching TEFL are British English (BE), defined as the form of English used in the united kingdom, and American English (AE) the particular form of English used in the united states
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F.D. - U.S. A. said:
Problems for learners in a country of your choiceSunny skies, palm trees, a warm breeze are typical of this area. It´s September and the classrooms in spain are filled with students of all ages ready to learn or continue to learn the Universal Language, English. The students come into the classroom and sit down. A brief introduction and question, ´´I am from the U.S.A., where are you from?´´, the response in most cases ´´I am from Espain.´´ and here... [Read more]
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A.B. - U.S.A. said:
PROBLEMS WITH ENGLISH LEARNING IN SOUTH KOREAProblems South koreans have trying to learn English is a topic I could discuss for hours. I have been working in public middles schools in South korea for about two years now, so I have a lot of insight into the problems, as well as strong opinions about the issues.
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How to Get Ready for Unforeseen Circumstances in The Classroom? - TEFL Blog
Tue, 14 May 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
How to Get Ready for Unforeseen Circumstances in The Classroom?
There can be a lot of difficulties a teacher might face in the future lesson. You might have to manage a class without any help or you might have students from different nationalities, ages, interests or so on. I believe, however, that most of the problems you might have would be solved if you planned the lessons carefully in advance. There are some reasons to support my idea.
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What's your lesson goal?
You can manage your class anyways
Know your students
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Using TEFL Techniques and Experience in Online Teaching - TEFL Blog
Fri, 05 Jun 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Using TEFL Techniques and Experience in Online Teaching
Teaching English as a foreign language has some very specific techniques as opposed to general classroom instruction. Just a few of these techniques include not correcting students immediately, encouraging a more open classroom, and using presentations or group work to present material.
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Engagement
Phonetics and Phonology
Supportive Materials
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Phonetics/Phonology: Why Teaching this Neglected Aspect of Language is Important - TEFL Blog
Wed, 27 May 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Phonetics/Phonology: Why Teaching this Neglected Aspect of Language is Important
I chose this topic for my essay because it is not something I had ever given much thought to. As a native speaker, I don't recall studying correct pronunciation in school along with other aspects of language learning such as grammar and vocabulary. Correct, or at least acceptable and understandable, the pronunciation was something that just happened.
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Why is Teaching Phonetics Important?
What is the Best Way to Teach Phonetics?
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Personal Experience in Teaching Multilingual Classes in the US - TEFL Blog
Thu, 06 Jun 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Personal Experience in Teaching Multilingual Classes in the US
Having previously been a small business owner, I began teaching an English conversation class as a volunteer at my local library just over two years ago to fulfill a community service requirement for my degree program. The experience of teaching English as a second language has been so personally rewarding that I am now pursuing it as a career change.
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Teaching Multilingual Classes
Anticipated Problems
Beginning of My Teaching Career
Students Feedback
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Teaching Speaking to Chinese English Learners - TEFL Blog
Mon, 15 Jul 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Teaching Speaking to Chinese English Learners
The following essay is a summative task for my TEFL certification course. I have chosen the topic "Problems for learners in a country of your choice" and the country of focus is China. In the essay, I would like to answer the question "How to help Chinese learners improve their conversation skills?"
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State of the problem
Phonetic System
Chinese Censorship
Culture
Ways to Teach Speaking
Intonation and Stress
Speaking Activities
Motivation
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The Best Thing I Have Learned From My 60-hour TEFL/TESOL Course - TEFL Blog
Fri, 21 Dec 2018 Linda Dunsmore
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The Best Thing I Have Learned From My 60-hour TEFL/TESOL Course
Where do I begin? I have learned so much from my 60-hour TEFL course with ITTT.
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I have learned about everything from what it takes to become a great teacher and of course what not to do in the classroom. I also learned a lot about what makes a student a great learner. I believe this is very important as well since good learners progress more rapidly in the class. That rapid learning makes good learners and most of all more successful students. In turn that builds confidence in the teacher on behalf of the students. Of course, the teacher ends up with more confidence in... [Read more]
How Can Reading Influence Language Acquisition? - TEFL Blog
Mon, 03 Feb 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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How Can Reading Influence Language Acquisition?
Spanish is my mother tongue; however, I also managed to learn English and French at a young age. Both of these languages stuck with me even years after I had left the countries where I learned them.
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Language Exposure Period
Modern Technologies
Influence of Books
Speaking
Vocabulary
Writing
Listening
Speaking
Grammar
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