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A Lesson Plan to Practice Speaking With ESL Adults - TEFL Blog
Mon, 24 Aug 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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A Lesson Plan to Practice Speaking With ESL Adults
When it comes to teaching adults with higher levels of English proficiency, it is quite complicated to create lessons as most of the students usually have very specific needs and challenges.
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Engaging People Into a Lively Conversation
Studying Without Realizing That You Actually Study
Wrapping Up
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ESL Learners’ Modes: Differences between Young Students and Adults - TEFL Blog
Wed, 20 May 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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ESL Learners’ Modes: Differences between Young Students and Adults
An instructor should adapt their instruction based on the student's needs and abilities, and should take into account the age of students as this is likely to affect factors such as student motivation, attention span, and openness to activities. An instructor should anticipate that young students may be less internally motivated than adult learners. Adult learners are likely to have longer attention spans than younger students, therefore the instructor should adjust lesson plans accordingly. Certain activities will be well received by very young students and poorly received by slightly older students or adult learners, this should be taken into account when... [Read more]
Teaching ESL & Knowing Your Audience: Young Learners vs. Adults - TEFL Blog
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 Jon ITTT
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Teaching ESL & Knowing Your Audience: Young Learners vs. Adults
Whether speaking at a public event where thousands have gathered, or talking politics around a table with friends, this simple piece of advice is well-known to anyone who has ever done any public speaking. But, it is also critical advice for the aspiring teacher—whether those teaching English as a second language, or those teaching chemistry in high school. The more well-acquainted a teacher is with his or her classroom, the more successful he or she will be in engaging their minds in the topic at hand.
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Motivations of Young Learners
Information Presentation
Language Retention
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How to Approach Teaching Adults and Children? - TEFL Blog
Wed, 26 Aug 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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How to Approach Teaching Adults and Children?
This TEFL course covered a huge variety of topics, and it was all useful information for English teachers broadly. It had a nice balance of actual how-to-tasks (i.e. how to make a lesson), as well as guidance and advice dependent on the situation (i.e. how to deal with a misbehaving student or how to establish rapport with a class). While there was new information throughout each chapter for me, the most useful, applicable information for me as a teacher was the differences between young learners and adults. This is mostly because I have taught ages preschool-late 60s (not necessarily English, I taught preschool in the USA and have taught private piano/harp lessons). I learned how to... [Read more]
Enhancing Listening Skills: Key Considerations for Adult ESL Classes - TEFL Blog
Fri, 07 Jul 2023 Federico Riva
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Enhancing Listening Skills: Key Considerations for Adult ESL Classes
Listening is possibly the least covered of the four skills needed by ESL learners in most classrooms. As it is a fundamental skill, teachers should try to create as many listening skills lessons as they do for the other three skills: reading, writing, and speaking.
Table of Contents
Challenges of Listening Compared to Reading
The Stages of Listening
The Receiving Stage: Hearing and Attending
The Understanding Stage: Decoding and Comprehension
The Evaluating Stage: Forming Opinions and Thinking Ahead
The Remembering Stage: Processing and Storing Information
The Responding Stage: Verbal or Written Answers
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Games as a Teaching Method for Adult ESL Students - TEFL Blog
Tue, 03 Dec 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Games as a Teaching Method for Adult ESL Students
When we start to learn new things as children, we tend to do that with the help of games. That is why in many classrooms of young learners, we find games to be a highly popular medium amongst educators. It is a way of absorbing and processing a piece of information in a fun and educational way. But when we grow up, we somehow forget the necessity of games in the classroom.
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Ice Breaker
Ways to Include Games into Your Lesson
What Games to Choose?
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Why is it Important to Keep Adult ESL Students Motivated? - TEFL Blog
Fri, 03 Apr 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Why is it Important to Keep Adult ESL Students Motivated?
Most Adult ESL students are highly motivated students – at first. They are eager to join a formal class setting to improve their English skills for themselves and for their future (career). They usually voluntarily join the class (unless instructed by a manager or supervisor). So in fact, the motivation is internal and comes naturally from within themselves. This is great for the teacher and usually assures an energetic start to the class term. However, as the term continues, the motivation naturally wines down. The excitement fades and the students have more excuses for not coming to class or when in class, have a low participation rate. So, as an ESL Instructor, why... [Read more]
How to Understand and Address Discipline in Adult Learners of EFL - TEFL Blog
Thu, 03 Sep 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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How to Understand and Address Discipline in Adult Learners of EFL
Discipline is an important aspect of classroom life when teaching EFL to adults. It affects the teachers and students and can hold a classroom together. Lack of discipline creates chaos and diminishes the ability of students to learn. In this essay, I will seek to explore what kind of discipline problems there are among adults, why a lack of discipline exists, and some strategies to solving a lack of discipline.
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To begin with, I'd like to review some literature about common problems which exist among students.
With all these reasons for lack of discipline in mind, what solutions can be implemented?
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How can an instructor effectively use games with adult EFL students? - TEFL Blog
Tue, 30 Apr 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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How can an instructor effectively use games with adult EFL students?
When I first made the transition from primary school to university, I knew that my lesson plans were clearly going to have to change. As I began to come up with ideas for my new job, I was disappointed that most of the content I previously used had no place in the university. Games, such as Hangman and Pictionary, worked excellently in capturing the interests of my young students, but I didn't think these childish games had any place in a university classroom. I found out weeks later how wrong I was when I used Pictionary at the beginning of one of my courses to 'preview' the vocabulary we would be covering in class that day. I discovered that day that games can... [Read more]
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Mastering Grammar: Dynamic Approaches and Engaging Activities for Language Learners
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10 Tips for Adults to Learn English During Office Break Time
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Discover 10 effective ways to learn English during office breaks! From language apps to podcasts, reading, and speaking sessions with colleagues, these hacks maximize your language learning in short bursts. Start enhancing your English skills during break time today!
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Using Flashcards in Teaching EFL Teenagers and Adults - TEFL Blog
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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Using Flashcards in Teaching EFL Teenagers and Adults
Flashcards are a simple, versatile, yet often underexploited resource, and they are instrumental in eliciting more obscure words. They are a great way to present, practice, and recycle vocabulary and some grammar structures.
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Benefits to Use Flashcards
Lesson Planning with Flashcards
Ideas on Using Flashcards in the Classroom
Vocabulary
Group Work
Recollection
Grammar Boost
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A Lesson Plan to Practice Speaking With ESL Adults | ITTT | TEFL Blog
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In this article, our TEFL expert shares an EFL lesson plan for teaching speaking skills. Get inspired or simply use this ready lesson with your advanced level students.
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Advantages of Teaching Adult Students and Implications on Teacher’s Methodology - TEFL Blog
Thu, 27 Dec 2018 Linda Dunsmore
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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]
Enhancing ESL Reading Lessons: Strategies and Materials for Effective Learning - TEFL Blog
Fri, 14 Jul 2023 Federico Riva
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Enhancing ESL Reading Lessons: Strategies and Materials for Effective Learning
Reading comprehension is a crucial skill for ESL (English as a Second Language) students to develop. As teachers, it is essential to select appropriate resources and employ effective techniques to maximize the benefits of reading activities in the classroom. In this blog post, we will explore various types of reading materials, discuss strategies to improve reading comprehension skills, and highlight the importance of integrating discussions into the learning process.
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Authentic Materials:
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What type of TEFL teacher is most in demand?
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Which teachers are in most demand?
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What type of TEFL teacher is most in demand?
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What are the different roles TEFL teachers take?
For online teaching there are a few types of teaching jobs that you can undertake. These include:
For onsite teaching there are also a few types of teaching jobs available, such as:
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Which teachers are in most demand?
What other roles can TEFL teachers move into?
Conclusion
Which teachers are in most demand?
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Vancouver, Canada - ESL job
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In this blog we look at the process of human listening and cover a five stage process of receiving and processing auditory information. For each of these factors we then look at the implications for the planning of our ESL listening lessons and associated activities.
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Date posted:2009-01-20 | Writer: Kongju National University | Email: [email protected]
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How Adults’ Learning Differs From Teenagers’ and Children’s Learning? - TEFL Blog
Mon, 23 Dec 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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How Adults’ Learning Differs From Teenagers’ and Children’s Learning?
ESL teachers must acknowledge that it is not equal teaching English Lessons to children, teenagers, and adults, there are some wide differences between the practices used in each case, classroom, population, levels, and country where English is taught, on this paper we will check how an ESL lesson may be affected by these variables, and how we could overlap them on the practices used in teenagers and adults English lessons.
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Basic concepts
Self-concept
Personal Experience
Adults learning process
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Learning Modes: Young Learners vs Adults - TEFL Blog
Sun, 16 Jun 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Learning Modes: Young Learners vs Adults
In this short essay, I would like to share the differences in teaching YL and Adults. For effective learning, it is important for us, as teachers, to understand how these two groups go about learning. The critical point is the suitable design and delivery of the program.
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To enhance the adult learning and engagement Malcolm Knowles introduced 4 principles:
1. Involvement
2. Experience
3. Relevance
4. Problem-centered
Teaching Young Learners vs. Adults:
1. Dependency:
2. Accepting Instruction:
3. Applying Learnings:
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This blog post contains information on keeping adult students motivated.
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