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Tips for Teaching Different Types of English Learning Groups - TEFL Blog
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 Mark Crocker
Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
Tips for Teaching Different Types of English Learning Groups
There are many types of English learning groups and each group requires different teaching techniques. In my opinion, English learners can be divided into 2 groups: beginners and English learners for specific purposes. Beginners can be students who have no English at all or know a few simple structures. They can be children or adults. English learners for specific purposes are students who have a basic English level and want to achieve their specific aims of learning.
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Young Beginners
Adult Beginners
English Learners for Specific Purposes
Conversation Learners
Business Students
Examination Classes
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How to Foster Motivation in the Classroom - TEFL Blog
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
How to Foster Motivation in the Classroom
A motivated student is a student who is eager to learn, and that means they are much more likely to absorb and retain what they are being taught than if they were disengaged or disinterested. This is why it is so important for teachers to foster motivation in the classroom and engage their students to be open to learning before the start of each lesson.
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Methods
Plan Considering Students' Age
ESA Challenge
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A Lesson Plan to Practice Speaking With ESL Adults - TEFL Blog
Mon, 24 Aug 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
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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Should Slang and Idioms be Taught in the Classroom? - TEFL Blog
Thu, 04 Jun 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Should Slang and Idioms be Taught in the Classroom?
When one imagines an English language lesson, one probably pictures vocabulary drills, dictionaries, and verb conjugations. While these are all aspects that one will most likely find should they sit in on a class, perhaps there can be something fun, useful, and entertaining to be found as well, something like a lesson on slang and idioms.
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The use of slang and idioms are very commonplace in conversations for native English speakers.
Deeper Competence
So, how would an instructor teach this type of language?
Slang and Idioms Through ESL Method
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What is Lesson Planning and How to Implement it in The TEFL Work? - TEFL Blog
Mon, 10 Aug 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
What is Lesson Planning and How to Implement it in The TEFL Work?
I believe it is very important to plan and write down lessons, for the benefit of the students, myself, relieving teachers, and especially while I am an inexperienced teacher. A lesson plan acts as a device for a singular lesson, helps create a series of lessons, and as a record of what has been taught. Self Evaluation Forms will be vital as a new teacher so that I can continuously self improve.
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Initial Assessment
The Students
The Classroom
Parts of a Lesson Plan
My additions to the lesson plan to include:
Self Evaluation
Self Evaluation Forms should be at the bottom or on the back of the lesson plan
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Teaching one to oneWhen most esl students start learning English for the first time, they typically start lessons in a group setting. The biggest reason for this is that they usually start learning English in the Elementary or Middle school. The students are accustomed to studying in groups from an early age. This group classroom dynamic is something that is continued in most English school because there are many advantages to it. However, in... [Read more]
The Art of Preparing Working Lesson Plans - TEFL Blog
Fri, 20 Dec 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
The Art of Preparing Working Lesson Plans
Doing up lesson plans for my up and coming TEFL classes is something that I am quite excited about. I suppose it is because I see an opportunity for creativity and that gets my juices flowing. I love the engage, study and activate model that was taught to us, both in the TEFL course itself as well as in this course on teaching business English lessons to adults. I would like to share some ideas that I have reaped from this course on how I would prepare a lesson plan for the to engage, study and activate methodology.
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Engagement
Giving New Information
Applying New Information on Practice
Points to Remember
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Top 10 ESL Activities for Older English Learners - TEFL Blog
Tue, 02 Mar 2021 Francesca Marchi
TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
Top 10 ESL Activities for Older English Learners
From my experience, when you deal with older ESL learners, you have to take into account the fact that they do not want to look bad while practicing their English skills. Actually, activities and exercises should make them feel at ease and confident in their learning, as well as satisfied with the goals achieved so far. It goes without saying that the teaching techniques that include a direct confrontation between an adult student and the teacher or a classmate as a judge of their performance should be avoided so as not to make them feel uncomfortable. Here are a few ideas for you to try.
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1) Personal Questions and Answers
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The Principles of Teaching Grammar to Young Students - TEFL Blog
Tue, 05 May 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
The Principles of Teaching Grammar to Young Students
Being a teacher, you should know that children learn language differently from adults. Although grammar does play an important role in language learning- especially in the early stage of the process where a new language can seem very contradictory, lacking structure and rules and disorganized where grammar teaching comes into its own. So I think we should find "how to teach grammar for young learners?"
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1. Teaching and modeling:
For example:
2. Practice
3. Practical application.
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Online Teaching: ✅ 7 Activities to Enhance Your Online ESL Lesson with Miro - TEFL Blog
Wed, 18 Nov 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
Online Teaching: ✅ 7 Activities to Enhance Your Online ESL Lesson with Miro
If you have already switched to online ESL teaching, you've definitely been using an online board. There are many good options out there, but I prefer using Miro over the others. Miro is a convenient online whiteboard with lots of fun and interactive tools to use during the class and outside.
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6. Stickers
7. Emoji reactions
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The Benefits of Implementing Songs and Music in the ESL Classes - TEFL Blog
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
The Benefits of Implementing Songs and Music in the ESL Classes
For the summative task for this course, I decided to research the use of songs in the classroom. The use of songs interests me because it seems that this is a good medium to provide some variety in the classroom and develop interest. Songs and music can also be used with all age groups, although of course whereas singalongs may be more appropriate with very young learners, other activities such as lyric breakdown are still very useful for older learners.
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Motivation
The 9 Benefits by Lynch
Pronunciation Training
Developing Language Aspects
Using Songs with Older Students
6 Steps to Make a Song Accompany the Lesson Context
Songs for Adults
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What Makes a Good Motivator? - TEFL Blog
Fri, 16 Aug 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
What Makes a Good Motivator?
Learners, whether children or adults, tend to lack attention in the classroom at some point. Certainly, this problem varies from one type of age-range to the other. Indeed, this issue may be due to different reasons: mature students may be tired from work, whereas youngsters may struggle to keep up with the content.
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Classroom Motivation
Teacher's Personality
Punctual Teacher
Choice of Activities
Methodology
Group Work
Implementing Different Strategies
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Interesting Ideas for Having an Effective ESL Circle Time - TEFL Blog
Wed, 09 Sep 2020 Michela Coticone
TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
Interesting Ideas for Having an Effective ESL Circle Time
Teaching a new language to children can come with many challenges because there is limited time and sometimes limited attention spans. To effectively teach a new language, children need to have a feeling of confidence in the fact that they can perform what they are being taught, and the element of having fun while learning. Children, just like adults, need repetition to effectively learn a task. Repetition Repetition alias Drilling: Is it an Effective Way to Remember Language Points? will allow a child to mentally prepare themselves for a task that will happen at a certain time of the day, therefore they can begin to anticipate what their... [Read more]
Teaching English to Older Students: ✅ The Pros and Cons - TEFL Blog
Thu, 14 Jan 2021 Francesca Marchi
Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
Teaching English to Older Students: ✅ The Pros and Cons
What do you imagine there may be behind a group of old learners? Well, whatever comes to your mind, I can tell you it sounds like having an extended family that warms you up and makes you feel at home. Older students could be like loving grand-parents, great-uncles or great-aunts, and apart from relatives, caring neighbors and dearest friends. Actually, you may find out they are active pensioners, retired teachers or scholars, culture lovers, as well as humble workers without school-leaving certificates and, above all, passionate people and happy learners: these are senior students. In the following lines, I'm going to share my classroom experience with you.... [Read more]
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ESL teacher/homestay provider in Honolulu
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ECHS Teachers Homestay is actively seeking new teachers/host families living in the greater Honolulu area. This is a fun program where students accelerate their learning process by living and studying in their English teachers home. Most students stay from 1-4 weeks. Students are all ages arriving from Europe or Asia. We are looking for a host/teacher that can provide the following: 15 hours private English instruction per week. 3 outings/activities per week with students. Private bedroom.Meals.Requirements: All certified teachers are encouraged to apply. TEFL/TESOL Certification is a bonus. An extensive ESL... [Read more]
TEFL USA - page 1 - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL Jobs in USA
TEFL Jobs in the USA
ESL teacher/homestay provider in Honolulu
Writer: ECHS Teachers Homestay | Email: [email protected]
ECHS Teachers Homestay is actively seeking new teachers/host families living in the greater Honolulu area. This is a fun program where students accelerate their learning process by living and studying in their English teachers home. Most students stay from 1-4 weeks. Students are all ages arriving from Europe or Asia. We are looking for a host/teacher that can provide the following: 15 hours private English instruction per week. 3 outings/activities per week with students. Private bedroom.Meals.Requirements: All certified teachers are encouraged to apply. TEFL/TESOL Certification is a bonus. An extensive ESL... [Read more]
J. Piaget’s “Four Stages” in ESL Teaching - TEFL Blog
Tue, 29 Oct 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
J. Piaget’s “Four Stages” in ESL Teaching
Put simply, children think and learn differently than adults. Jean Piaget, as one of the leading psychologists to explore these differences, puts forth the four stages of cognitive development, unified by an overarching idea called constructivism. He specifically focuses on children rather than all learners and, further still, focuses on development rather than learning. His constructivism theory posits that children form an understanding of the world around them and modify that representation based on their experiences and shifting environments that either contradict or confirm what they have built. (1) Therefore, in working with young learners, teachers should be mindful of this... [Read more]
How to Effectively Integrate Slang and Idioms into TEFL - TEFL Blog
Fri, 20 Dec 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
How to Effectively Integrate Slang and Idioms into TEFL
Intelligence has been defined in many ways, including the capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. More generally, it can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context (Wikipedia, 2019).
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Considering Language Habits
Iconic Approach to Teaching
Why Slang?
Verb First Clauses Usually Play one of Three Roles:
Teaching Slang and Idioms
Incorporating Idioms and Slang into English language Teaching
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Narrowing Down Your ESL Teaching Niche for Greater Profit
09/28/2021
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English Speaking and Writing Errors made by Chinese Primary Students - TEFL Blog
Mon, 27 May 2019 William Noble
Destinations Teaching Ideas
English Speaking and Writing Errors made by Chinese Primary Students
I have been an online ESL teacher to Chinese students for over 13 years, mostly with primary students but also with secondary and adult students. I am also a father and have homeschooled my daughter over her primary years. Like many teachers, I've enjoyed teaching at this level of education as it lays the foundation in English. As it set the foundation, my teaching helped students to overcome common errors in production skills, speaking and writing. Teaching both my daughter and Chinese students at the primary level also helped me also to understand the different expectations between first language and second language students.
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