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The Most Effective Strategies to Teach Reading - TEFL Blog
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
The Most Effective Strategies to Teach Reading
Reading competence involves making sense of the written text and requires the complex interaction of knowledge and skills. When children learn to read, they need to learn to integrate the use of visual, phonological and semantic cues and relate to their own experience to construct meaning. An effective reading instruction thus involves a combination of phonological instruction (decoding) and whole language (reading for meaning), with the use of authentic literary experience. This paper will provide a summary of essential areas of reading instruction, coupled with various strategies that I have used in my work as an educational psychologist and teacher, helping young children to read.... [Read more]
Phonetics: How can Phonemic Awareness Facilitate Effective Reading? - TEFL Blog
Fri, 20 Dec 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Phonetics: How can Phonemic Awareness Facilitate Effective Reading?
Phonemics according to the Merriam Webster dictionary is a branch of linguistic analysis that consists of the study of phonemes. In other words, it could be explained as the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes. Phonemics awareness, on the other hand, is the ability to examine language independently to its meaning and to manipulate its component sound[1].
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Difference between phonemes and phonics
Universal way of acquiring a language
Why phonemes are important?
Correlation between phonemic awareness and spelling ability
Teachers' Role
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Phonetics-PhonologyThe purpose of phonological awareness instruction is to teach students the skills they need in order to understand the alphabetic system of English. Phonological awareness skills are a necessary component of beginning reading instruction and are the appropriate beginning point of instruction for many poor readers. Some students require instruction in analyzing sounds within words prior to beginning actual decoding and encoding... [Read more]
What Really Is the Role of the Parents in Education? - TEFL Blog
Thu, 06 Jun 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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What Really Is the Role of the Parents in Education?
It goes without saying that parents are the first teachers to their children, thus, education begins at home. Mothers and fathers together with school personnel may set up a perfect environment for a child's balanced learning.
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Research in the field
Suggestions to parents
1. Be a Role Model
2. Read books together
3. Encourage active learning
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Recent research has shown that parent involvement in their child's school life has many positive results. For example, students whose parents participated in PTA got higher grades and test scores. They... [Read more]
Engaging Language Acquisition: The Importance of Reading for Pleasure - TEFL Blog
Tue, 21 Jan 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Engaging Language Acquisition: The Importance of Reading for Pleasure
Fears of declining reading rates have long plagued the United States. In 2007, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) released To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence, a report showing that reading rates for all demographic factors had declined. The report shed light on the potentially devastating effects that such a decline may have: this was not about mourning the loss of book sales, but about reading's impact on citizens' abilities to comprehend written material, improve their socioeconomic standing, and maintain a successful career.
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Research discovery
What is FVR
Other studies
Emotions
Possible risks
Voluntary reading
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Does Reading Impact Language Acquisition? - TEFL Blog
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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Does Reading Impact Language Acquisition?
One of the most challenging contradictions I had to face as a high school language and literature teacher in Germany was the principle that each child should have equal opportunity when, sadly, the inequality often starts long before high school, and that as a teacher, you should give every student the chance to achieve excellent performances when, in reality, the latter also depends on factors outside of the classroom. In conversations with parents, I often pointed out specific deficiencies in their child's essays as I was taught to. I made suggestions on how to improve them, hoping in vain that next time, the student would get a much better grade. I knew... [Read more]
Why is reading the perfect way to acquire a new language? - TEFL Blog
Wed, 15 Jul 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Why is reading the perfect way to acquire a new language?
When we are born, our first contact with our native tongue is one hundred percent oral. Our mother is the first one to speak to us in her native language and as we grow we are constantly exposed to words, expressions, and conversations that we take in and start to understand in our everyday life. Once we reach a proper school age everything starts to change because we are introduced to a new way of communication that goes beyond body language and oral expressions. We are introduced to written language. This rite of passage is as normal as it´is expected to be, but we must take into account something that in the last couple of decades has become part of this experience; the... [Read more]
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Coursebooks and Materials - Authentic and Created Materials
Federico Riva
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In this blog post, we will consider the classification of ESL materials into, authentic and created. We will then look at some of the major advantages and disadvantages of using each of them in the ESL classroom.
The Three Main Types of High Schools in Japan
Etienne Van Rooyen
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There are three types of senior high schools in Japan. Each senior high school (grades 10, 11, and 12) has a different purpose and students attend it. Understanding this helps us learn how English language learning in Japan is differently yet similars each school. With this knowledge, as an Assistant Language... [Read more]
Nightly Reading Homework: Best Practices in 6 Steps - TEFL Blog
Mon, 21 Feb 2022 Ahmed Taha
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Nightly Reading Homework: Best Practices in 6 Steps
If you're teaching a child in Kindergarten to second grade, you can probably assign about 10, 20, or 30 minutes of reading per night as homework.
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Recommendations for Parents
Number 2 is: Don't "tell" the words.
Number 3: Move beyond "sound it out."
Number 4: Have the child re-read some passages for fluency.
Number 5: Allow some mistakes to go uncorrected.
Number 6: Allow the child to read the same book multiple times.
Finally, continue to read to your child.
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Foreign Language Experience and How it Helps With EFL Training - TEFL Blog
Sun, 29 Dec 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Foreign Language Experience and How it Helps With EFL Training
In the following essay, I have chosen to explain my late-in-life interest in becoming certified as an EFL teacher, based on my background with foreign language experience, which began at an early age.
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My Story
First Step
Local Culture
Future Possibilities
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My Story
I was what some would call an early bloomer. As a baby, my mother read to me at night until I fell asleep. By the age of 2, I could speak in simple but... [Read more]
How Reading Influences English Language Acquisition - TEFL Blog
Fri, 25 Oct 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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How Reading Influences English Language Acquisition
Reading is important. It is an important tool that aids in language acquisition whether the language is native or foreign. Unfortunately, it is sometimes neglected, especially as the students move up in their studies.
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My Childhood
Case One
Case Two
Case Three
Case Four
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My Childhood
Having been raised without television until I was in junior high school, I would read books, magazines, and the Sunday newspaper. At an early age, my... [Read more]
One More Point of View on the Importance of Stories for English Learning in Early Childhood - TEFL Blog
Wed, 15 Jan 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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One More Point of View on the Importance of Stories for English Learning in Early Childhood
Early childhood is the period from 0-8 years old, it is a time of remarkable growth with brain development at its peak. During this stage, children are highly influenced by the environment and the people that surround them. We can say further that Early childhood education is a branch of education that relates to the teaching of children from birth to the age of eight, therefore covering infancy, kindergarten and the early school years up to grades 3. So how does storytelling come in? Well, storytelling does a lot here because this stage is very crucial to a child's early physical, socio-emotional, cognitive and linguistic development.
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English Speaking and Writing Errors made by Chinese Primary Students - TEFL Blog
Mon, 27 May 2019 William Noble
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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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Teaching English Idioms as an Important Part of Language Acquisition - TEFL Blog
Thu, 04 Jul 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Teaching English Idioms as an Important Part of Language Acquisition
It was my first experience teaching in Taiwan and I was in charge of teaching ESL to 7th-11th graders. I had never taught out of the United States and never considered the possibility that my students wouldn't understand, what I thought, was simple English. I asked my junior high students to "put on their thinking caps," to "line up single file," "to quit fooling around" and that English was as "easy as ABC." I told my senior high students to "give me a show of hands" and told them if they "studied hard" and "hit the books," they would "pass with flying colors." I told my college students I would give them an "A for effort" if they "quit goofing off" and "skipping... [Read more]
The Effects of Teaching Vocabulary Learning Strategies on EFL Learners Vocabulary Development - TEFL Blog
Fri, 22 May 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
The Effects of Teaching Vocabulary Learning Strategies on EFL Learners Vocabulary Development
Vocabulary has always been one language area about which students usually complain and claim that it impedes language learning. The main purpose of this study is to investigate whether using the context for guessing the meaning of new vocabulary can solve this problem. The learning of vocabulary is an important part of foreign language learning. The meaning of new words is very frequently emphasized, whether in books or verbal communication. And also, English teachers have an important role in teaching new vocabularies. In this research, we will study different kinds of teaching vocabulary by using a dictionary or guessing on the context.... [Read more]