English Language Learner Resources For Teachers

Provider TEFL Cert Check out tefl tesol about Provider TEFL Cert and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: Check out ITTT's Blog Posts G.A. - U.K. said: Creating materialsCreating appropriate materials for an ESL/EAL class requires careful thought and selection but given the time they can be rewarding to make and enjoyable to complete. If cost is not an issue, it is worth considering whether or not the resource can be colour photocopied and laminated if necessary. Materials used can either be authentic or created and the resource chosen will depend on its purpose and learner. The aim of this article is to...  [Read more]

Thu, 14 May 2020 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas How Can Language Teachers Encourage Student Motivation? Motivation is integral to the development of any language learner. Disengaged learners do not actively participate in or see the reasoning behind their learning. While external motivation is a prominent factor, teachers need to implement a range of strategies to encourage enthusiastic engagement in classroom activities. To provide adequate opportunities for student achievement, educators need to understand their students and utilize prior experiences in their instruction. Effective classroom instruction will implement materials and resources that are relevant to students’ lives and provide ample opportunity for meaningful communication while ensuring activities are fun and...  [Read more]

Wed, 20 May 2020 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Group Teaching as Opposed to Individual Teaching Teaching English as a foreign language can be done one of two ways: teaching a group of students or by teaching on a one-to-one basis. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Xiaobing W. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Teaching students in groups are very common in most classrooms. On the contrary, one to one teaching is made more special by the fact that many teachers have to develop their strategies, approaches, and materials. One-to-one courses are, by definition, tailor-made courses. There are some advantages to teaching one-to-one courses. On the one hand, the teacher not only has a greater...  [Read more]

Acquire TEFL Diplomas Check out tefl tesol about Acquire TEFL Diplomas and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: Check out ITTT's Blog Posts T.H. - U.S.A. said: Multiple Intelligence As a teacher have you wondered did I reach every student? Were they truly engaged in the lesson? These are questions that teachers ask themselves daily. A creative learning environment can meet the needs of all the learners with the use of Dr. Howard Gardner?s multiple intelligence theory. There are different schools of thought on how to reach all students in your classroom. There are some that believe intelligence can be assessed...  [Read more]

Wed, 29 Jan 2020 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas The Role of the Teacher in an EFL Classroom The world is changing, mindsets are changing and so is teaching. Although the basic qualities of a teacher remain the same, a teacher has to be adaptable to ensure that maximum growth, maturity, knowledge gain, motivation, and success is achieved in their classroom. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Ashleigh C. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. A teacher fulfills many roles but some of the most crucial will be discussed below: 1. The teacher is a participant A teacher will adapt their teaching style to the class they are teaching and use whatever methods necessary to instill learning autonomy. This skill...  [Read more]

Wed, 02 Jan 2019 Linda Dunsmore Alumni Experiences The Best Thing I've Learned From My Two TESOL courses from ITTT The two TEFL courses I took with ITTT provided a comprehensive coverage of English teaching to non-native speakers. The 50-hour young learners course and the 120-hour TEFL course taught language points such as grammar and tense structure. The courses also went into depth on topics related to teaching English such as classroom management and lesson preparation. These aspects are very important to teaching English as well as mastering the English language itself. A skilled teacher must know how to handle different types of classes. This post was written by our ITTT graduate Jeffrey G. How to succeed at teaching English to young children This course explained how teaching...  [Read more]

Tue, 27 Aug 2019 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Inspiration to Create Teaching Materials Teaching is a creative enterprise and creating your materials is very satisfying. There are many positive reasons for a teacher to create their materials. Purposely created materials are inexpensive, tailored to specific grammar and language topics, adaptable for different language levels, specific expansions on the course resources, culturally sensitive and correct. From my perspective, among the most important reasons for creating your materials are that it adds a personal touch to your class, and it enables you to have a sense of ownership in the curriculum. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Cindy N. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the...  [Read more]

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences Teachers and Their Position in the TEFL Classroom Teachers are facilitators of student learning and creators of productive classroom environments, in which students can develop the skills they might need at present or in the future. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Alfonso R. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. However, before we begin to understand the evolving role of an ESL teacher, let’s outline some of the most popular teacher roles. Harmer, J. states that ‘it makes more sense to describe different teacher roles and say what they are useful for, rather than make value judgments about their effectiveness.’ The teacher can be a...  [Read more]

Archives for August 2023 Fostering Flourishing Futures: Empowering Young ESL Learners with Innovative Strategies Federico Riva Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas Unlock the secrets to inspire young ESL learners! Discover proven strategies for a vibrant classroom, fostering confidence, and embracing diversity. Navigating Learning Difficulties: Understanding, Strategies, and Success Federico Riva Alumni Experiences Unveil the realm of learning difficulties. Discover insights into causes, strategies, and resilience against challenges. Benefits and Challenges of Personalized Language Learning through 1-to-1 Teaching Federico Riva TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas Explore the pros and cons of one-to-one language teaching. Personalized learning vs. limited...  [Read more]

Wed, 12 Aug 2020 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas The Importance of Slang and The Way to Teach it to Young Learners Language textbooks are a good source for language learners and teachers, especially new language learners or teachers who may not know exactly where to begin. However, while textbooks are a valuable resource, they do not teach students everything they need to know when it comes to interacting with native speakers of the target language. This is because all native speakers use some level of slang in their everyday speech, in the classroom, and even in their workplace. For this reason alone, ESL students need to begin learning common slang they may hear. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Justin W. Please note that this blog post might not...  [Read more]

Thu, 27 Dec 2018 Linda Dunsmore Alumni Experiences Advantages of Teaching Adult Students and Implications on Teacher’s Methodology How does teaching adults differ from teaching young learners? To most people, it should be rather obvious that teaching children is very different from teaching adults, due to adults being more mature and having more life experience than children. This article discusses the advantages of teaching adult students and what the implications on a teacher’s methodology are. Adult learners refers to anyone who is above the age of eighteen. Although it is not a perfect definition, we will nevertheless use eighteen as our cut-off age since it is the most common age threshold in many language schools when it comes to deciding whether a student should go to a...  [Read more]

Tue, 12 Jun 2018 Mark Crocker Teaching Ideas Top Online Lesson Plan Resources for New and Advanced Teachers For many new and experienced EFL teachers, one of the most challenging aspects of their career is coming up with lesson plans that are both engaging and effective. Even if your employer provides a specific textbook to follow as a curriculum, you will often find that this can be rather dull for the students unless you spice things up by adding in some fun and original ideas from an outside source. By searching online you will find a huge amount of sites offering all manner of resources of varying quality and relevance. To save you the hassle of searching through them all, we have listed our 5 favorite websites that you can use to find quality lesson plans free of charge. Using...  [Read more]

The Best Teaching Ideas for TEFL Teachers Is Taking a TEFL/TESOL Course Really Worth it? Federico Riva TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas In this blog post, we outline the differences and similarities between a TEFL and a TESOL certificate. Does it make a difference to what you can do and how different are they? These are just some of the questions we will answer here. Fostering Flourishing Futures: Empowering Young ESL Learners with Innovative Strategies Federico Riva Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas Unlock the secrets to inspire young ESL learners! Discover proven strategies for a vibrant classroom, fostering confidence, and embracing diversity. Benefits and Challenges of Personalized Language Learning through 1-to-1 Teaching Federico Riva TEFL...  [Read more]

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas What are the Most Effective Methodologies for Teaching Beginner Students? In my experience gained the past few years, one of the most challenging experiences for me was to effectively teach beginner students. Since all my students were absolute beginners (learners who have had no contact with English at all), I had to find ways to make the learning effective, differently to teaching false beginners, who have some form of understanding of the English language. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Alida K. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. To further add a challenge to my teaching methodologies, all my learners were very young.This essay attempts to...  [Read more]

Mon, 17 Jun 2019 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas 6 Reasons To Use Flashcards When Teaching Teenagers And Adults This summary is focused on the use of flashcards with activities that the English teachers can use in the teaching-learning process. These activities are created not only to present new vocabulary, and practice pronunciation, but also to get students to participate in class. The use of flashcards helps teachers to introduce a new word through an image and that image is about any vocabulary words. Moreover, the main focus is that flashcards engage the ability to think clearly which is considered efficient learning. The majority of this generation learns best by seeing the information in an example format. Students of all ages are far more likely to remember visuals rather...  [Read more]

Tue, 30 Apr 2019 Jon ITTT Alumni Experiences 10 Important Roles of a Good Teacher The roles of a quality or good teacher are more than just planning, making lesson plans or teaching. The teacher's roles in today's world are different from what they used to be. Teachers used to plan or were issued a specific curriculum to teach with, that provided them sets of instructions they were supposed to follow. However, that's not the same issue with today's teachers. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Herman K. Teachers nowadays are like a "third parent". Simply because teachers spend much time with students and they can be a positive role model to students that lack a proper family foundation. Their job is to counsel students, inspire them and help them to utilize the...  [Read more]

Thu, 07 Feb 2019 Linda Dunsmore Teaching Ideas Games in the Classroom: What are EFL games? ESL games are games that can be used in the classroom to practice certain language points and encourage active and creative communication between your students. There are many different games created specifically for use in the English language classroom that can be found online or in any number of resource books. But we are not limited only to those games designed for the class; the majority of games that we played as children or still play as adults can be adapted and used in lessons. Whether games are co-operative or competitive, they are a great way to provide students with a goal to be achieved by using the English they have learned. Common misconceptions about games in the classroom...  [Read more]

Thu, 15 Aug 2019 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Teaching Adults vs. Teaching Young Learners Teaching can be extremely satisfying and rewarding, but how we teach and the methodologies that we use should be adapted to teaching each specific learner or groups of learners. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Omar B. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Listen to this blog post: Types of Learners Let's begin with defining what is considered to be an adult and what is considered to be a young learner. According to regulatory standards, an adult is an individual over the age of 18. Young learners, on the other hand, can be categorized based on three bases; from the age of seven and under (very young...  [Read more]

Teach Young Learners English in Turkey Date posted:2008-08-14 | Writer: Maple Bear Kindergarten | Email: [email protected] The Kemer Maple Bear Kindergarten program is situated in a beautiful semi-rural suburb of Istanbul called Kemerburgaz, and offers a Canadian designed English-Immersion curriculum. The school is equipped with excellent resources and offers facilities comparable with quality kindergarten programs in North America or top-rated international schools abroad. The Maple Bear kindergarten is located in a purpose-built facility with a large garden / playground, play hall, auditorium, and swimming pool. Spacious classrooms are well resourced to provide teachers with the supplies they need to offer an enriched kindergarten experience. Join our growing staff of Canadian...  [Read more]

Fri, 05 Mar 2021 Ahmed Taha Alumni Experiences Innovation in Curriculum Design ✅ Effective Learning and a Problem-Solving Approach What is effective learning?After context and objectives have been developed, the word "effective" makes sense. When is it most effective? What is it that makes it effective? Who is it that says this? The students? The teacher? Learning is a reflective process that allows a learner to use prior experience to understand and analyze the present in order to influence potential behavior and form new information. (Watkins, p.1, 2002) Some meanings of learning consider it to be a passive method of knowledge acquisition that is evaluated by tasks. Learning is a process that requires both reflection and assessment. The model can be used to explain the process...  [Read more]

TEFL Job in Arequipa, Peru Date posted:2009-05-06 | Writer: International English | Email: [email protected] International English is looking for TEFL teachers to fill our open positions. We are located in the south of Peru in the city of Arequipa. We specialize in small groups and one-to-one classes teaching General English, English for Young Learners, Exam Preparation and In-company Training. We are looking for teachers with proficient level English with native speakers with TEFL or equivalent being preferred. Beyond the hourly compensation package and the sick and vacation leave, we also offer many other benefits to our teachers such as social interaction, authority, control and autonomy, and professional and personal growth. Basic pay is based on...  [Read more]

Mon, 17 Jun 2019 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas The Relevance and Impact of Computer-Aided Language Learning in Teaching English Today’s technology-based society has a significant impact on how English is both experienced and taught. A great number of professionals spend a large part of their day on the Internet and interacting with all that it and ICT, in general, has to offer. Through it, they absorb information, generate knowledge and are both indirectly and directly educated and influenced. Computer-assisted language learning tools provide us with a vast number of resources that we can use both in the classroom when teaching collective language lessons or in a group and individual students assignments. I would like to elaborate on different aspects of Computer-Aided Language...  [Read more]

Mon, 08 Jun 2020 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas What Should be Considered When Teaching English as a Global Language? We are moving closer to becoming a Global Village in this more inclusive and competitive world, the need to be able to communicate effectively becomes a real necessity. Communicating effectively is no longer a nice to have skill but it is now becoming essential. Due to historical facts and the current geopolitical situation English has become the language of choice to progress, it is particularly and increasingly used in business, tourism, and social media environments. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Shaun Y. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. The history of English expansion...  [Read more]

Highest TEFL Classes Check out tefl tesol about Highest TEFL Classes and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: Check out ITTT's Blog Posts C.L. - France said: Business EnglishIntroduction Business English means different things to different people. For some, it applies only to specific vocabulary and topics used in the worlds of business, trade, finance, and/or any other specific business fields (i.e. medical/nautical/Marketing/Management/Human Resources/Tourism and so on?). For others it refers to the communication skills used in the workplace, and focuses on the language and skills needed for common business...  [Read more]

The World Of TEFL and TESOL Explained What Is the Best Thing I Learned from My TEFL/TESOL Course? Teaching Special Groups Federico Riva Destinations TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Discover how my TEFL/TESOL course taught me to tailor English teaching for diverse student groups. A vital skill for educators! Advantages and Disadvantages of Teaching Monolingual vs. Multilingual Groups Federico Riva Destinations TEFL Information Teaching Ideas Monolingual vs. Multilingual: Unpacking the pros and cons of teaching diverse language groups. Find the right fit for your teaching style! Is Taking a TEFL/TESOL Course Really Worth it? Federico Riva TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas In this blog post, we outline the differences and similarities between a...  [Read more]

Teach English in Lukow, Eastern Poland Date posted:2022-12-12 | Writer: Language Inspiration | Email: [email protected] Join a friendly and supportive team in a well-resourced, British-owned school close to Warsaw and Lublin, with opportunities for teacher development and to teach a wide range of ages and levels.We are growing and are currently seeking:An appropriately qualified full-time teacher (CELTA, Trinity, TEFL or equivalent) - starting ASAP with a native speaker (or C2) level of language to join our team in Lukow & the surrounding area.There is also the possibility of part-time / cover work for suitable locally based candidates.Successful teaching candidates should be:- Open, friendly and enthusiastic about teaching;- Have permission to work in Poland (ie. be an EU or...  [Read more]

Thu, 16 Jan 2020 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Why is Completing a TEFL Course Important? A TEFL course is undertaken by individuals that would like to teach English as a foreign language. Completing a TEFL course is important as the course teaches aspiring teachers the key skills they would need to teach the English language in the best manner possible. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Everyl C. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Students’ Background Students or rather learners come from various backgrounds and have varied life experiences. Several factors need to be kept into consideration while dealing with students such as age, prior learning experience, motivation to learn, ability to...  [Read more]

Thu, 29 Aug 2019 Jon ITTT TEFL Information Teaching Ideas 12 Course Books to Improve Your General English Lessons for Adults As a newly qualified TEFL teacher the chances are you will be working for a school which supplies its teachers with all the resources needed to teach successful lessons based on a set course. This article shows a selection of the course books that are available for teaching general English course to adults from a number of publishers in the TEFL industry. There are several publishers involved in producing course books for the TEFL classroom. The main publishers are Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Pearson/Longman and Macmillan. These publishers produce course books across a range of EFL sectors including, young learners, adults, business...  [Read more]

Thu, 18 Feb 2021 Ahmed Taha TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas Innovation in Curriculum Design The curriculum has been used in the past as a collection of topics and syllabuses for children and young people to be learned during their school years. However, this definition does not do justice to the wider outcomes required by the real world or to the complexity of what many teachers are actually doing to promote the well-being of children and young people. It fails to define the overall objectives that the program is supposed to serve. Learning is often greatly influenced by when and how success is evaluated and how the effects of measurement are used. Therefore, evaluation needs to be seen as an important part of the process of learning. Consequently, the study has...  [Read more]

Full time teacher required to teach English in Vietnam Date posted:2004-08-27 | Writer: ILA Vietnam | Email: [email protected] Teachers For Children Needed Immediately in Vietnam! Contact us ILA Vietnam is seeking native English speaking EFL teachers to start work immediately in the following programmes: *Children's English Teachers (ILA Juniors, Seniors & Elite) To teach on the ILA Juniors, Seniors and Elite programmes (courses below in bold) Newly Certified TEFL Graduates ( CELTA or equivalent ) welcome ! Programmes at ILA Vietnam Currently we offer the following programmes: * ILA Jumpstart English course for children (4 - 6) * ILA Juniors English courses for children (6 - 11 years) * ILA Seniors English courses for teenagers (11 - 16 years) * ILA Elite English...  [Read more]