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The Differences Between British English and American English, and How to Teach It - TEFL Blog
Wed, 10 Apr 2019 Mark Crocker
Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
The Differences Between British English and American English, and How to Teach It
How to teach the differences between American English and British English can be quite fun for the teacher and students alike. The differences are very interesting and cool to discover. I know that as an American I find it quite amusing to see what British speakers say compared to Americans.
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Biscuit or Cookie? The Differences in British and American Words
Color or Colour? The Differences in Spelling
Teaching Ideas for the Classroom
Teachers Should Be Familiar With Both Forms of the Language
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British vs. American: Which English Accent to Choose? - TEFL Blog
Fri, 20 Dec 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
British vs. American: Which English Accent to Choose?
British English versus American English always sparks a lively discussion. I have read some articles so far as to compare these 2 languages and gather the information from the online resources.
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Personal experience
The history of English
Vocabulary challenge
Teaching implications and classroom problems
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Do accents matter when teaching English abroad? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
Do accents matter when teaching English abroad?
When it comes to accents we all have one no matter where in the world we were brought up. Most of us are familiar with the basic differences between British and American accents, but what about accents from Australia and New Zealand, Canada and South Africa? And within each of these countries there are dozens of regional accents, just to complicate things further. So, we all have an accent, but is it a problem when teaching English as a foreign language?
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What English accent should I teach my students?
How do English language students learn English accents?
What English accent should I teach my students?
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Historical Reasons for The English Diversity - TEFL Blog
Mon, 24 Jun 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Historical Reasons for The English Diversity
British versus American English is a subject that encompasses a number of fields, including linguistics, history, archaeology, geography, and the study of the history of the English language. British English has a deep foundation that stretches back into time to the advent of the Indo-Europeans, and while America can claim this as well, the language was, for the most part, very close to its modern form by the age of exploration. That being said, many archaic forms of words and grammar were still in use during the age of exploration and spelling was not standardized when the great voyages and colonization of the Americas began.
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Historical Changes
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British English Vs. American English British English and American English began to diverge in 1607, with the founding of the first American colony. Some of the major ways in which these two dialects have deviated include pronunciation, vocabulary, spelling, idioms, and the formatting of dates and numbers. [1] Of these differences, most are mutually intelligible by speakers of both dialects (i.e., ?colour? versus ?color?), but the... [Read more]
Which English should be taught in the TEFL classroom? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
Which English should be taught in the TEFL classroom?
The type of English taught in different countries will vary according to the preferences of that individual country. We focus here on British and American English as they are the most commonly taught variations of English worldwide. Many countries have a clear preference for the type of English taught in its schools and language centers. Some examples are shown on the map below:
Map created by reddit user Speech500
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How exactly do these forms of English differ?
There are a number of major differences which we will examine. The following are in no way exhaustive and you should investigate for yourself for more examples.
Spelling Differences
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Which English should be taught in the TEFL classroom? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
Which English should be taught in the TEFL classroom?
In the field of TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language), the choice of English variation often depends on the specific preferences of a country:
In conclusion, TEFL teachers should be aware of a country's preference and adapt their teaching accordingly.
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How exactly do these forms of English differ?
Spelling Differences
British Grammar vs. American Grammar
Same Word - Different Pronunciation
Differences in word for the same object
Other considerations
How exactly do these forms of English differ?
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English in Britain and in America - TEFL Blog
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
English in Britain and in America
British English versus American English are often discussed during the class, students frequently ask which one is the standard English to learn and would it cause any difficulties in communication. Both of them have differences and similarities, but individuals from the UK and the US can communicate without too much difficulty.
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What is Correct?
The History of English
Pronunciation Differences
Spelling
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Which ‘English’ Should I Teach? - TEFL Blog
Thu, 12 Mar 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Which ‘English’ Should I Teach?
English is a language that has a variety of dialects: particularly, there are three different major English segments. English (American ), English (Australian), and English (British or Uk). The three segments have differences in the way they are written and spoken. In this article, I will compare American English versus British English and my own experience with these two.
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British English
American English
My Experience
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Reasons Why English Learners Should Choose American English - TEFL Blog
Mon, 04 May 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Reasons Why English Learners Should Choose American English
So, American English versus British English, which of them you should learn as a second language?
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First things first American English is more popular and more used in the world.
Another plus of American English is simplicity.
Also, we shouldn't forget about slang.
Another one plus in American English is idioms.
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In the next few sentences, I'll try to explain why I think that the American variant of English is the best variant for learning. As a kid I used to learn British English and thought that it's okay, Great Britain is closer to the country, where I was born, and all people... [Read more]
The Importance of Learning Different Dialects - TEFL Blog
Fri, 05 Jul 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
The Importance of Learning Different Dialects
As with many languages, English has so many different dialects. When one travels to a different region of the United States, for example, one will likely encounter different accents, vocabulary and different meanings of the same words. This is also true for British English and American English. For the purpose of this assignment, we will look a little deeper into these.
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Easier to travel the world
Knowing some peculiarities in writing and speaking
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Challenges of EFL Teaching in Barbados and Japan - TEFL Blog
Tue, 24 Sep 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Challenges of EFL Teaching in Barbados and Japan
This essay will be a comparison of my personal experience teaching English in Barbados, a country whose main language is English versus teaching English in a rural area in Japan, a country whose main language is Japanese (not English). Firstly, I will briefly discuss the definitions of teaching. Secondly, I will summarize English education for young learners in each country. Finally, I will compare and contrasts my personal experience in both countries and the valuable lessons I have learned. To protect the anonymity of the schools, the specific areas and any other identifying information will be excluded from this essay.
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Is Teaching English Online Convenient? - TEFL Blog
Wed, 15 Jul 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Is Teaching English Online Convenient?
Teaching English online is a huge growing market in today's globalized society. According to the British Council, there are over a billion people who are learning English (750 million English as a foreign language learners and 350 million English as a second language learner). The difference between EFL and ESL learners is that EFL learners live in a country where the language of the community is not English and English is used by a learner in rare instances such as for business or pleasure; while ESL learners live where English is either a primary language or has an established role in the society and the language is used daily.
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The Most Common Pronunciation Problems for English Learners in Myanmar - TEFL Blog
Thu, 07 May 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
The Most Common Pronunciation Problems for English Learners in Myanmar
Assuming it has already been understood generally, I do not intend to elaborate on the reasons between Myanmar and Burma, even though it still remains unknown to many. In this essay, I will be using 'Burmese' or 'Burmese language' to refer to the language and 'Myanmar' for the country. Language acquisition can understandably present several challenges ranging from alphabets, accent, construction styles, pronunciation, etc. Depending on several factors, different language speakers will have different challenges. While one part is no less difficult than another, I reckon, in Myanmar, there is one component that most learners seem to have similar difficulty in taking... [Read more]
Benefits of Speaking a Foreign Language - TEFL Blog
Fri, 16 Aug 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Benefits of Speaking a Foreign Language
There are about 6500 spoken languages in the world today. 11 of those are here from my home country of South Africa. The most spoken language of them all is Mandarin. Language is what defines us. It is what divides us. It what we are taught and brought up to understand and one day pass on to the next generation. It is like being a unicorn. When there are none left, you will only read about it in books and professors who learned and studied about it.
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Linguistic Diversity
Challenges
Pros of Learning a New Language
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Native English Teacher vs. Non-Native English Teacher ✅ What are the differences? - TEFL Blog
Tue, 13 Apr 2021 Federico Riva
TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
Native English Teacher vs. Non-Native English Teacher ✅ What are the differences?
Welcome, my name is Linda nice to see you. I'm a TEFL and TESOL professional at ITTT and I've been living and working in Asia since 2012-ish and I live in South Korea and I've been here for five and a half years. I also taught English in China and here in Korea as well and I also work for ITTT and we have a guest so to speak but also from ITTT but joining us for the first time my colleague Lisa.
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Where in China did you teach?
So, what are the differences when it comes to teaching English abroad and online?
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Native English Teacher Vs. Non Native English Teacher: What Are The Differences? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Native English Teacher vs. Non-Native English Teacher: What are the differences?
Hello,
Welcome, my name is Linda nice to see you. I’m a TEFL and TESOL professional at ITTT and I’ve been living and working in Asia since 2012-ish and I live in South Korea and I’ve been here for five and a half years. I also taught English in China and here in Korea as well and I also work for ITTT and we have a guest so to speak but also from ITTT but joining us for the first time my colleague Lisa.
My name is Liza. I’m a TEFL and TESOL expert at ITTT as Linda and I’m also a former ESL teacher. I’ve been teaching online this year but before I worked in China as a lead teacher in a kindergarten so that was quite fun and I'll share my experience today.
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Native English Teacher vs. Non-Native English Teacher - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Native English Teacher vs. Non-Native English Teacher
12/06/2020
hello hi welcome here my name is linda
nice to see you if you're watching and my name is lisa yeah cool um so yeah if you're tuning in
again thanks so much we are actually doing white weekly lives so if you are uh watching again
thanks so much for watching again and if you are tuning in for the first time also thanks so much
um yeah if you can see us and if you can hear us please um quickly
leave a comment that'd be really great so that we know that everything is working well because sometimes you know there's
problems so you never know so please leave like a hello oh there's a hello great hello hello awesome
so looks like it's working great so yeah my name is linda i'm a tefl and
tesol professional at itt and i've been... [Read more]
Live Session With ITTT Alumna Brittany From 'The Life Of Brit' - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Live Session with ITTT Alumna Brittany from 'The Life of Brit'
Welcome to another live session this week and we're on at a different time this week. Usually we're a little bit earlier, but we have a special guest today, and that's because she's based in Germany. So we had to change the time a little bit. I’m Linda from ITT, you've probably seen me before, if you've watched us live and I’m here with Brit today.
Hi Brit!
Hi, thanks for having me, and painting your time to meet my schedule, and thank you so much for getting up early.I know it's early in Germany right now. just have my coffee and I’m good to go.That's awesome,where in Germany are you exactly? so I’m based near Trier, which is along the border with Luxembourg. So very close to Luxembourg?
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Our Complete Guide to Teaching English Online - TEFL Blog
Fri, 24 Feb 2023 Federico Riva
TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
Our Complete Guide to Teaching English Online
As we talk about teaching English online (TEO), let's first look at some of the basics of teaching English in this way. So, what does TEO generally involve?
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The three main things you need to teach English online are:
Additional requirements for some companies:
The two main types of online teaching.
1. Online platforms
3. Fully Independent online teaching
The Pros and Cons of Teaching Enlgish online
The pros
The cons
1. How much can you earn teaching English online?
2. Which platforms hire online English teachers?
3. Where should you look for jobs?
4. Setting up to work independently
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Live Session with ITTT Alumna Brittany from "The Life of Brit" - TEFL Blog
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 Federico Riva
Destinations Alumni Experiences
Live Session with ITTT Alumna Brittany from "The Life of Brit"
Welcome to another live session this week and we're on at a different time this week. Usually we're a little bit earlier, but we have a special guest today, and that's because she's based in Germany. So we had to change the time a little bit. I'm Linda from ITT, you've probably seen me before, if you've watched us live and I'm here with Brit today.
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That's cool, that's exciting. Have you been to Luxemburg?
Like I said, we have Brittany here today. We're doing a TEFL talk, sort of a casual TEFL talk today.
We are live on Facebook, and we're also live on YouTube. So please don't hesitate to ask questions.
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TEFL Talk with ITTT Alumna Brittany from "The Life of Brit" - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
TEFL Talk with ITTT Alumna Brittany from "The Life of Brit"
11/27/2020
hello welcome to another live session this week and yeah we're on at a different time
this week usually we're a little bit earlier um but yeah we have a special guest today and that's why because
she's on base in germany so we had to change the time a little bit yeah i'm linda from itt you've probably
seen me before if you've watched our lives and i'm here with brit today hi brit
hi thanks for having me and painting your time to meet my schedule yeah and thanks so much for
getting up early i know it's early in germany right now oh yeah just have my coffee and i'm good
to go yeah that's awesome where in germany are you exactly
so i'm based near trier which is along the border with luxembourg so very
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Top Tips for Teaching English to Young Learners - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Top Tips for Teaching English to Young Learners
02/18/2023
hi welcome Linda here from ITT back this
week with another live session I hope you're doing well thank you so much for joining me today I'm happy to see you if
you can see me and if you can hear me clearly if everything's working please just leave a high in the comment section
and uh maybe also let me know where you are right now where are you watching
from today what time is it there how are you doing let me know in the comments we are live on Facebook and on YouTube at
the same time and we also always turn our live sessions into podcast episodes so if you're listening to this as a
podcast thank you so much for the download and thank you so much for listening we really appreciate that
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Top 8 Misconceptions About Teaching ESL - TEFL Blog
Fri, 18 Nov 2022 Federico Riva
TEFL Information Alumni Experiences
Top 8 Misconceptions About Teaching ESL
In this blog post, we will look at 8 of the most widely held misconceptions regarding the teaching of ESL worldwide.
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Misconception #1: It's really hard to find a job
Misconception #1: You need a degree to teach English abroad.
Misconception #3: Teaching English abroad doesn't pay well
Misconception #4: You need to speak another language to teach ESL abroad
Misconception #5: You have to teach kids
Misconception #6: Teaching ESL is only a job for young people
Misconception #7: You don't need a TEFL qualification, if you're a native English speaker
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How to Become a Freelance TEFL/TESOL Teacher - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
How to Become a Freelance TEFL/TESOL Teacher
03/17/2023
hi Linda here from ITT back this week with another live session and and today
we're going to talk about how to become a freelance tefl teacher all right I
think this is a topic that a lot of people are going to find very interesting um a lot of people are probably going to
want to kind of follow in the in the footsteps of this
newer kind well is it a new career but I mean we've definitely seen some changes
in the teaching industry in the teaching Market um also thanks to the Boom in online
teaching and freelance teaching freelance English teaching has definitely become uh increasingly
popular for many different reasons many of these reasons we're gonna go into we're gonna go into
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Top 5 Underrated TEFL Destinations - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Top 5 Underrated TEFL Destinations
03/28/2023
hi Linda here from ITT back this week with another live session and and today
we're going to talk about how to become a freelance tefl teacher all right I
think this is a topic that a lot of people are going to find very interesting um a lot of people are probably going to
want to kind of follow in the in the footsteps of this
newer kind well is it a new career but I mean we've definitely seen some changes
in the teaching industry in the teaching Market um also thanks to the Boom in online
teaching and freelance teaching freelance English teaching has definitely become uh increasingly
popular for many different reasons many of these reasons we're gonna go into we're gonna go into
um what it actually means to be a tefl freelance teacher
um the... [Read more]
TEFL Courses FAQs - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ Frequently Asked Questions
TEFL - FAQs
At ITTT we are dedicated to training new teachers to become effective and confident professionals who are capable of working in English language classrooms worldwide. Throughout the training process we are here to guide you every step of the way, from choosing the right course all the way through to finding the best job to suit your plans. Inevitably you will have many questions along the way which is why we have put together the following FAQ section that should help to answer some of the most common queries.
TEFL & TESOL (General)
What is the difference between TESOL and TEFL?
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The 10 Crucial Skills for ESL Teachers to Develop in 2022 - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
The 10 Crucial Skills for ESL Teachers to Develop in 2022
11/17/2021
hey everyone out there my name is lisa and i'm super happy to welcome you at
another livestream session with itttt uh while i'm waiting for some more
people to join let me know if you hear and see me clearly um i hope that
today's live stream is gonna be smooth um and flawless because um last time i
saw like a comment uh stating that there were some issues with the sound
uh so just in case that you experienced some troubles listening to me please let me
know in the comment section i will be super super happy if you give me some
feedback okay uh so uh today's live stream session is uh devoted to
a rather uh controversial point because there are so many things
that appear these days online and in the real world
and i feel... [Read more]
These are the Best Government Programs for Teaching English Abroad - TEFL Blog
Mon, 08 Mar 2021 Federico Riva
TEFL Information Teaching Ideas
These are the Best Government Programs for Teaching English Abroad
Hi my name is Linda from ITTT, international TEFL and TESOL Training and I'm back again today for another live session. If you can hear me and see me please let me know as I'm trying out a new mic today so if that is working well it would be good to know. So please leave a quick comment to say hi and where you're watching from. I have been living in South Korea for five and a half years, so for me right now it's 10:00 a.m. Friday morning. Let me know where you are tuning in from and what time it is where you are.
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Complete Guide to Teaching English Online - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Complete Guide to teaching english online
09/08/2021
hello hi welcome to another live session my my name is linda from itt i'm so happy to
be here again this week um if you can see me if you can hear me as always please just leave a quick comment in the
comments box below that'd be really really great we are live on facebook and we're live on youtube at the same time
so welcome today we're gonna talk about teaching english online and also if
you're listening to this as a podcast episode thanks thank you so much for the download we always turn our um live
sessions into podcast episodes later so if that's something that you're interested in go check us out we are
available on all major uh podcast platforms like itunes spotify google
podcasts check us out just type in um tefl and tesol... [Read more]