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How to Teach Reading to Young ESL Students - TEFL Blog
Tue, 01 Oct 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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How to Teach Reading to Young ESL Students
As a part of receptive skills, reading is so important that children start to read both English and Chinese books at the very beginning of their lives. Reading is a beneficial way to learn English well, especially for young learners. They can accumulate more and more vocabulary as well as the way native speakers communicate with each other by reading various kinds of books. As we all know reading a good book just like talking with a great author.
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Personal Teaching Experience
Reading Techniques
Parents' Help
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How to Teach ESL Classes of Mixed Ability - TEFL Blog
Thu, 24 Oct 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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How to Teach ESL Classes of Mixed Ability
Students are never on the same proficiency as one another. Whether that would be in Math class, Science class, or English class. Everyone has their own abilities and own knowledge. As a teacher, this can be an exciting challenge. There are many ways that you can improve learning in your mixed-ability classroom.
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Peer Learning in Small Groups
Challenge
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What is Grammar and How to Teach it to ESL Students? - TEFL Blog
Wed, 26 Feb 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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What is Grammar and How to Teach it to ESL Students?
Grammar plays a very important role in learning and teaching a foreign language. What is grammar? Crystal describes grammar as "the business of taking a language to pieces, to see how it works" (as cited in Bentsen, 2017).
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Definition of Grammar
Explicit Grammar Teaching
Williams believes that meaning-focused instruction
Communicative Approach
Nunan defines communicative language teaching as
Larsen-Freeman's recommended that grammar teaching
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5 Secrets How to Teach English Grammar to ESL Students Easily - TEFL Blog
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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5 Secrets How to Teach English Grammar to ESL Students Easily
Some learners are very interested in finding out or learning grammar rules and doing lots of grammar exercises. Others hate grammar and think it is the most boring part of learning a new language. Whatever opinion you have, however, you cannot escape from grammar.
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1. Listening lays the foundation for learning any language, and it is the basis of all lessons
2. Watch and learn
3. Read many English books as possible
4. Know the parts of speech
5. Look for partners
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How to Teach ESL as a Volunteer - A Complete Guide - TEFL Blog
Mon, 09 Oct 2023 Federico Riva
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How to Teach ESL as a Volunteer - A Complete Guide
Volunteer English teaching can take many forms and can be undertaken in a wide range of countries throughout the world.
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Why should you teach English as a volunteer?
Where can you volunteer?
Here are some of the available options for volunteering.
a. Paid volunteer programs:
b. Affordable volunteer program (starting from around $300 per week):
c. Volunteer programs with pay:
d. Free volunteering:
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How to Teach the Growth Mindset in the ESL Classroom - TEFL Blog
Fri, 12 Nov 2021 Hadassah Roberts
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How to Teach the Growth Mindset in the ESL Classroom
Having a growth mindset can be life-changing. As an English teacher, you can teach your students to have growth mindsets, and this will undoubtedly be very helpful to them for the rest of their lives.
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What is a Growth Mindset?
Why is it Important for Students to Learn a Growth Mindset?
How to Teach Students the Growth Mindset
Conclusion
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How Is it to Teach ESL at Schools: ✅ A TEFL Teacher's Experience - TEFL Blog
Thu, 04 Mar 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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How Is it to Teach ESL at Schools: ✅ A TEFL Teacher's Experience
As a child, I always wanted to be a teacher. I adored helping people, listening to different stories, and sharing my knowledge with others. Inside was a natural curiosity and burning desire to understand everything. As a young girl, I was unaware of how demanding, entertaining, and rewarding this profession can indeed be.
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Elementary School
Language School
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Building Reading Awareness in Children - TEFL Blog
Wed, 15 Jul 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Building Reading Awareness in Children
Among my most cherished childhood memories takes me back to the moment when it was time to choose a new book to get lost in before bedtime. I was lucky enough to have a bookshelf in front of which I would sit and, I thought, let the book choose me. Sometimes the calling was immediate; sometimes it took longer. I picked up random books, read the back, and smelled them; sometimes I read the first page, anything I needed to do until I found the perfect connection. Reading was one of my favorite moments of the day. Most of the time, the book I picked would be so perfect for the moment in my life that it would take all my attention the next morning.
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Telling Time in English
Telling the time in English is one of the most important skills for any English learner. There are a lot of expressions and phrases used when it comes to telling the time in English and teachers need to be able to teach it in a way that makes sense to the students. Below are five simple steps for telling the time in English.
Choose which clock to use
There are two ways how you can tell the time in English: the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock. For the 24-hour system, you use the numbers from 0 – 23 to indicate the hours, whereas the 12-hour system useses only 1 - 12. To indicate morning or afternoon time, you use ‘am’ after the time in the morning and ‘pm’... [Read more]
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Expressing Likes and Dislikes
This is a fun ESL likes and dislikes activity to help you teach your students how to express preferences, likes, dislikes and favorites.
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Past Simple Wh Questions Roll of the Dice
Here's a fun past simple Wh questions ESL game to help you teach your students how to make questions in the past simple tense.
To play the game, divide the students into pairs (A and B) and give each student a corresponding part of the worksheet and each pair two dice.
Student B begins by rolling the dice and adding up the numbers rolled.
Student A then formulates the past simple question that corresponds to the number on their worksheet.
For example, if Student B rolls a two, Student A asks question two on their worksheet, i.e. 'What did you wear yesterday?'
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Idioms and Slang for ESL Students - TEFL Blog
Wed, 19 Feb 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Idioms and Slang for ESL Students
This paper will discuss the benefits of teaching slangs and idioms to students learning English as a second language. It posits that both are necessary to fully use and understand the language, and will look at when it would be appropriate to introduce them to different types of students and how they might be incorporated into lessons.
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What are slang and idioms?
Possible challenges and ways to overcome them
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Confidence as a Skill to Teach in an ESL Classroom - TEFL Blog
Thu, 18 Feb 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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Confidence as a Skill to Teach in an ESL Classroom
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Olga S. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
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What is confidence?
The very first impression
Celebrate even small achievements
Share the classroom responsibilities between all students is also essential
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How to Choose Lesson Materials for Cross-Classroom TEFL Teaching - TEFL Blog
Thu, 04 Mar 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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How to Choose Lesson Materials for Cross-Classroom TEFL Teaching
Different classes have different requirements for appropriate teaching materials. These requirements are influenced by several factors, such as the class's skill level, age, ability, a native language they speak, and the unique problems native speakers of that language have when learning English. Cultural factors also need to be taken into account. Course material could become problematic in a classroom if they deal with family relationships or gender so that a country's particular culture or the students may find it inappropriate.
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Additional Materials
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Students' Mother Tongue
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3 Steps for Teaching ESL Vocabulary Effectively - TEFL Blog
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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3 Steps for Teaching ESL Vocabulary Effectively
Words are an essential part of the structure of English sentences. If we want to speak English as a foreign language, we need to know new words and even progress. Considering a student who needs to know and learn new words as a teacher, we have to answer this question "What impressive ways do you have in teaching ESL vocabulary?"
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To effectively acquire new ESL vocabulary, students must go through four essential stages:
1. Noticing and understanding new words
Introducing nouns, things, objects, animals, etc.
Introducing adjectives
Introducing abstracts
2. Recognizing new words
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Matching
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5 Best Approaches to Teaching Grammar to Young ESL Learners - TEFL Blog
Fri, 19 Feb 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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5 Best Approaches to Teaching Grammar to Young ESL Learners
English is not the native language of those who begin to learn English. For children in Vietnam as a country using English as a second language, learning English grammar is difficult for children to learn. So how to teach children grammar effectively and children remember and use it most naturally.
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1. Learn grammar through games:
2. Practice:
3. Learning English in a mixed and systematic way:
4. Set up groups, create environments for children to read and write.
5. Simplify, review and edit:
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Cultural Awareness and Inclusive Learning in ESL Teaching - TEFL Blog
Thu, 18 Feb 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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Cultural Awareness and Inclusive Learning in ESL Teaching
Urban education can be described as a complicated topic for school reformists in America. With critical issues, such as inadequate funding, lack of resources, and uncertified teachers, the myriad of problems with public education has reached a new high. Many big-city public education systems have turned into melting pots by bringing together members of different racial, social, economic, and ethnic groups.
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The problem of Public Education
American Educational Scheme
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How to Approach Lesson Planning to Develop Independent Problem Solving - TEFL Blog
Wed, 25 Mar 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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How to Approach Lesson Planning to Develop Independent Problem Solving
Abstraction is in essence, the formation of broader, and more difficult and subjective systems from inputs. It is a concept that can be applied to the four language skills: reading, listening, speaking, and writing. As an idea becomes more abstract and subjective, it requires more information and becomes more difficult to answer. Some of the easiest and least abstract pieces of language are simple Yes/No statements and questions. "Do you like ice-cream?" "Yes, I do." "No, I don't." A more difficult question might be, "Who likes ice-cream?" More difficult still would be, "Why do you like ice-cream?" A simple, but by no means an exhaustive list of abstraction moving... [Read more]
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Teaching Speaking in an ESL Kindergarten - TEFL Blog
Fri, 15 Nov 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Teaching Speaking in an ESL Kindergarten
In teaching kindergarten level students, I find that three important aspects must be included in every lesson. Each lesson must contain parts that allow the students to "warm-up" their English skills, they must also have a chance to drill the vocabulary and target language, and lastly, the classes must have activities that give the students a chance to practice using their vocabulary and target language in a relatable activity.
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Beginning of the class
Methodology
Active stage
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5 Steps to Teaching the Degrees of Comparison in an ESL Classroom - TEFL Blog
Wed, 25 Nov 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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5 Steps to Teaching the Degrees of Comparison in an ESL Classroom
ESL students face the rules for the degrees of comparison early on in their English learning path. However, this topic may become daunting and lead to constant mistakes later on due to problems like confusing different degrees, doubling up, formulating unbalanced comparisons, etc.
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What Are Adjectives?
For example:
Adjective Degrees
Irregular Comparative
Syllable
Bonus Rule
For example, let's take a positive adjective slow:
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How to Teach English Abroad as a Volunteer
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TEFL vs. TESOL: Understanding Your ESL Certification Options
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