Learner Centered Techniques Of Teaching

In a TEFL classroom, adopting a learner-centered approach to assessment involves shifting the focus from the teacher to the students. This approach recognizes that learners have different needs, learning styles, and paces of learning. By understanding each student's strengths, weaknesses, and preferences, teachers can tailor assessments to suit individual learning goals. To implement a learner-centered assessment approach, teachers can use a variety of strategies such as self-assessment, peer-assessment, and portfolio assessment. Self-assessment encourages students to reflect on their own learning progress and set goals for improvement. Peer-assessment promotes collaboration and allows students to provide feedback to their classmates. Portfolio assessment involves compiling a collection...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas The instructional lesson which was observed for this assignment was English as a second language classroom listening lesson. There were four students in the room during this lesson. These four students ranged in age from grades ninth through twelfth. Two students were male and two students were female. There was one instructor in the room. The primary teaching methodology used by the instructor in this ESL course was The Task-based approach to language learning. This instructor did well in explaining details, breaking down complicated topics, and conveying her message. But, she hindered her lesson by maintaining too stern of a tone for the duration of the class and maintaining no form of visual aid. Review Approach Teaching Skills Problems Do you want to...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas As a new teacher, grammar was initially very difficult for me to teach. It was difficult to demonstrate grammar patterns succinctly. Luckily, the school that I work for has provided help by having an established curriculum. The key to teaching grammar, however, has been teaching variable inputs in otherwise unchanging structures as part of student-centered games. Strategies on how to teach positive patterns How to teach negative patterns? Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course! Related Articles: This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Stephen W. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. If I were to teach the pattern, "What does Billy like?/ He likes _____", then I...  [Read more]

Federico Riva TEFL Information Teaching Ideas ESA is a three-stage methodology where each of the letters represents a particular phase of the lesson. The first one being called the Engage phase, the second the Study phase and the final one the Activate phase. Watch the video about this topic What are the positive factors in the use of the ESA methodology? Are you ready to teach English as a foreign language? Related Articles: Check out what our course grads say in our many video testimonials! In 1998 Jeremy Harmer published a book called, How to teach English and basically what Harmer did as a background to his book was to look through all of the different methodologies that have come about over the last 300 or so years. He highlighted for each of those methodologies, what was good...  [Read more]

Learner-centered approaches in TEFL focus on the needs, interests, and goals of the students, placing them at the center of the learning process. This approach shifts the role of the teacher from being a lecturer to a facilitator of learning, where students are actively engaged in their own learning journey. By recognizing the unique backgrounds and learning styles of each student, teachers can create a more personalized and effective learning experience. Incorporating learner-centered approaches into TEFL lesson planning involves several key strategies. Firstly, teachers should get to know their students by conducting needs assessments and understanding their learning preferences. This information can then be used to tailor lessons to meet the specific needs of the learners. Additionally,...  [Read more]

  Engaging Activities for Young Learners Establishing Clear Expectations and Routines Utilizing Positive Reinforcement Strategies Managing Classroom Transitions Effectively Creating a Positive Learning Environment Addressing Individual Student Needs Incorporating Technology in Teaching Building Strong Relationships with Students Handling Challenging Behaviors with Care Collaborating with Parents for Support Teaching English to young learners can be a rewarding experience, but it also requires creativity and energy. Engaging activities such as songs, games, and interactive exercises can help keep young learners interested and motivated to learn. Incorporating ITTT's innovative teaching methods can make lessons more fun and effective for both teachers and students. Teaching English to...  [Read more]

  Also in the 1970s la señal came up with a new methodology called "Suggestopedia". As psychological theory was developing, one of the ideas that came up was something called ?the effective filter?. Basically, the effective filter is a barrier to learning. It's the reasons why we inhibit our learning of a particular language. There are two main elements to the effective filter, two sets of factors, if you like, those are known as internal and external factors. The external factors to learning, the reasons why we have barriers to learning, may be just simple things such as external noise. So, people talking to us while we're trying to learn and so on and so forth. Perhaps more important are these internal factors and the internal factors one of the main things here is our previous...  [Read more]

Federico Riva Teaching Ideas It has been noted that the function of the brain is separated into two sides (hemispheres) commonly known as the left and right brain. What specific functions are included in the two sides of the brain and how did this information become incorporated into a mainstream ESL teaching methodology. Watch the video about this topic Related Articles: Check out what our course grads say in our many video testimonials! This particular methodology is accredited to James Asher around 1965 and is called Total Physical Response (TPR). Asher looked at the way in which we learn our native language and he saw that most children, before they even went to school, have picked up a very large percentage of both the grammar and the vocabulary that they would use in their native...  [Read more]

Student-centered approaches in English language teaching have gained popularity in recent years due to the numerous benefits they offer both teachers and students. These approaches focus on placing students at the center of the learning process, encouraging active participation, collaboration, and critical thinking. By shifting the focus from the teacher to the students, these approaches create a more engaging and interactive learning environment that can lead to improved language acquisition and overall learning outcomes. One of the key benefits of student-centered approaches in English language teaching is the enhanced student engagement and motivation they promote. By involving students in decision-making, goal-setting, and the learning process itself, these approaches empower students...  [Read more]

  So what we're going to do is to run through a series of methodologies that were created mainly in the 1900s that adopted the idea that language learning should be much more communicative, much more natural. The first one is called audiolingualism and it's also called the army method because of where it was developed. Basically, psychology, during the 1950s and 60s, was building up new theories about behaviorism. Perhaps the most famous experiments that were done in this particular area were by Pavlov, where he was showing that most animals undergo a stimulus response mechanism and he had a series of famous experiments, where by ringing a bell, he could cause a dog to salivate, that would be his response, in the expectation of getting some food. This behaviorist idea of stimulus...  [Read more]

  Before we move on to the final methodology for today, let's just recap and see where we are at this point in time. We're looking at different learning methodologies. Each of those methodologies takes its premise from being somewhere on this particular spectrum of ?nature versus nurture? and where we are on this spectrum gives us a starting point for the background or theory to that particular methodology. So, we?ve had a look starting in the 17th century and the classical method and moving on as the ideas of psychology developed to various methods, such as audiolingualism, the silent way, Suggestopedia and TPR. Each of these showing a development as knowledge about learning increased and each of these takes a different starting point on our English spectrum. Below you can read...  [Read more]

  The purpose of grammar translation then is to basically translate between L1 and L2 and vice versa. So, we could take a simple example. Let's imagine that our native language was English and our target language was French and let's assume that we want to translate a document from French into English. Let's take a simple sentence. Here's a sentence in French "Ouvre la fenêtre" and we'll add "s'il vous plaît" at the end. What we want to do is to take this L2 and translate it back into English. Now, if we have a reasonable knowledge of French then we may well know that this particular verb "ouvre" "to open" translates directly and this female form of the and finally the fenêtre "Open the window" and this polite form of "please". This is all very well if the two structures that...  [Read more]

  Our final methodology is accredited to Jeremy Harmer and it's known by the letters ESA. Around 1998, Jeremy Harmer produced a book called "How to teach English" and basically what Harmer did, is a background to this book is to do what we have done today and to work through all of the different methodologies that have come about over the last 300 years. He highlighted for each of those methodologies what was good about it, what was positive and what didn't appear to work and then put all of the positive things into a melting pot and came out with this methodology, which he called ESA. It's a three-stage methodology, where each of the letters represents a particular phase of the lesson. The first one being called the engage phase, the second the study phase and the final one the...  [Read more]

Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) to young learners requires a deep understanding of their cognitive and emotional development. Young learners are typically between the ages of 3 to 12 years old and have unique learning styles compared to adult learners. They are naturally curious, enthusiastic, and energetic, but they also have shorter attention spans and may struggle with abstract concepts. As a TEFL teacher, it is crucial to adapt your teaching techniques to cater to the specific needs and characteristics of young learners. By understanding their developmental stages, you can tailor your lessons to be more engaging and effective. When teaching young learners in TEFL, it is essential to use a variety of interactive and hands-on teaching strategies to keep them engaged and...  [Read more]

  Before looking at the methods or approaches themselves, there are some terms that we need to define. These are the approach, the method or the technique. Basically, these are hierarchical. The approach is an overriding set of principles that a method can actually make use of, whereas the technique are the things that we actually do in the classroom to approach that method. So, these three words are going to appear during the presentation. Again, for each of either the approaches all the methodologies we're going to ask four questions. So be it an approach or a method for each of those things: Where did it come from? What's its background? What does it involve when we're talking about actually in the classroom, in other words techniques? What is positive about it? What appears to...  [Read more]

  This presentation is going to focus on the theories, methods and techniques of teaching and we're going to start with a quote. This is an interesting quotation because it contains within it a philosophical argument and it's a philosophical argument in the way in which we learn. Basically, this one is saying that the intelligence of their own children comes about due to a natural process. So this one could be said to be due to nature. This is exactly the opposite of this one, which is saying that they're teaching the environment that we create, creates that intelligence. So this one can be said to be due to nurture and this argument 'nature versus nurture' has been going on for thousands of years. These two viewpoints are two ends of a scale, or a continuum if you like, and every...  [Read more]

  "In terms of the things that are negative about it, we've already said that it doesn't develop speaking but perhaps the biggest negative point about this particular methodology is that it's very unnatural. Ok, so despite the criticisms of this particular method, and particularly the fact that is unnatural, this particular methodology was in use all the way through the 17th, 18th and 19th century and indeed it's still in use today. However, Gouin in the 1880s and Berlitz in the early 1900s decided that this particular methodology was so unnatural that they wanted to come up with something new. The method that they came up with, they called the direct method. You will also sometimes see it as the natural method. What these two people were saying is that if we wish to learn a language...  [Read more]

  So let's take an example of what those drills might involve. So here is an example of a repetition drill. I will model the language and then my class will repeat after me. So "This is a cup." "Spoon" ? "This is a spoon." "Knife" - "his is a knife." Thank you. The reason that it's called or also called the army method is that it was the method adopted by the United States military who had personnel stationed around the world at the end of Second World War and they realized that they needed those personnel to pick up the language very quickly and one of the positive things about this particular methodology is that you do very quickly learn vocabulary. Another positive thing about it is that you quickly learn the correct pronunciation of that vocabulary. However, there are some...  [Read more]

  Our next methodology is called the silent way and it's accredited to Caleb Gattegno and was developed in or around the 1970s. This particular methodology moved on from the behaviorist stimulus response to what's called a theory of constructivism and this constructivist approach was very very different, very radical to anything that had been tried before. The background to this particular methodology was that there was a French mathematics teacher who found that his students were finding it very difficult to understand particular concepts. What he realized was that what they needed was a more visual representation of the information. So he came up with a series of colored rods to help with those concepts in mathematics. He gave his name to those rods and they're called Cuisenaire...  [Read more]

  Our next particular methodology is accredited to James Asher around 1965 and is called total physical response. Asher looked at the way in which we learn our native language and he saw that most children, before they even went to school, have picked up a very large percentage of both the grammar and the vocabulary that they would use in their native language before any type of formal schooling. So Asher started to have a look at ideas of how to use the whole of our brain in language learning in the way that we do when we're very young. It's accepted that within our brain there are two hemispheres, one is the left hemisphere the other is the right hemisphere, and one of the functions of the left hemisphere is language learning. One of the major functions of the right hemisphere is...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas In the language classroom, there are many roles that a teacher should be able to play to be well-rounded. In different situations and problems, a teacher will need to change his/her roles to complement the matter or to solve the conflicts. I would like to discuss a few roles that a teacher would need to play in a classroom: Entertainer, motivator, and leader/manager. Attention-grabbing skills Confident work Management skills Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course! Related Articles: This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Po W. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Holding a student's attention could be the most important element to have an effective lesson. One...  [Read more]

1. Introduction 2. The Importance of ESL Teaching Techniques 3. Advantages of Using Proven ESL Teaching Techniques 4. Incorporating Technology in ESL Teaching Teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) can be a rewarding experience for both educators and students. By utilizing proven ESL teaching techniques, instructors can create a dynamic and engaging learning environment that promotes language acquisition and fluency. International TEFL and TESOL Training (ITTT) offers comprehensive courses that equip educators with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively implement these techniques in the classroom. Effective ESL teaching techniques are essential for creating an inclusive and interactive learning environment. These techniques not only help students improve their language skills...  [Read more]

Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is a popular method for teaching English to beginners as it focuses on communication rather than just rote memorization of vocabulary and grammar rules. This approach encourages students to engage in real-life communication activities, such as role-plays, discussions, and problem-solving tasks. By using this technique, students can practice using English in meaningful contexts, which helps them develop their speaking and listening skills naturally. Total Physical Response (TPR) is another effective technique for teaching English to beginners, especially for young learners or those with limited exposure to the language. TPR involves using physical actions and gestures to accompany language input, making it easier for students to understand and remember...  [Read more]

Interactive teaching methods in TEFL lessons offer numerous advantages for both teachers and students. By incorporating activities that engage students actively in the learning process, teachers can enhance comprehension, retention, and motivation. Interactive methods such as group discussions, role-plays, and games provide opportunities for students to practice language skills in a meaningful context, leading to improved fluency and confidence. Additionally, interactive activities promote collaboration and communication among students, fostering a supportive and interactive learning environment. This approach also helps teachers to gauge student understanding in real-time, allowing for immediate feedback and adjustment of lesson plans as needed. Student-centered teaching methods...  [Read more]

Unlocking the Power of ESL Teaching Techniques with ITTT 1. Mastering ESL Teaching Techniques 2. Practical Application in the Classroom 3. Enhancing Career Opportunities with ITTT 4. Conclusion Are you looking to enhance your skills as an ESL teacher? Look no further than the International TEFL and TESOL Training (ITTT) workshop on ESL teaching techniques. This workshop is designed to provide educators with the knowledge and tools needed to excel in the field of English language teaching. With a focus on practical strategies and hands-on activities, participants will learn how to engage students, create dynamic lesson plans, and effectively assess learning outcomes. By mastering these ESL teaching techniques, teachers can create a positive and productive learning environment for their...  [Read more]

As a TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) teacher, employing effective teaching techniques is crucial for enhancing student engagement and achieving positive learning outcomes. This guide explores a variety of teaching methods and strategies that can help you create a dynamic and interactive classroom environment. From using visual aids and storytelling to incorporating technology and collaborative activities, you'll discover practical techniques to make your lessons more engaging and effective. Additionally, this guide offers tips on adapting your teaching style to suit different age groups and proficiency levels, ensuring that you can meet the diverse needs of your students. By implementing these teaching techniques, you can foster a supportive and stimulating learning...  [Read more]

  Interactive Learning Strategies Cultural Sensitivity in Teaching Utilizing Technology in ESL Lessons Differentiated Instruction Methods Incorporating Real-World Contexts Assessment and Feedback Practices Engaging Classroom Activities Promoting Language Fluency Building Strong Student-Teacher Relationships Professional Development Opportunities Interactive learning strategies are essential in ESL teaching to engage students actively in the learning process. By incorporating group activities, role-plays, and games, teachers can create a dynamic and stimulating learning environment. ITTT offers courses that emphasize the importance of interactive teaching methods to enhance student participation and comprehension. Interactive learning strategies are essential in ESL teaching to engage...  [Read more]

  The Importance of Advanced Teaching Techniques Incorporating Technology in ESL Teaching Implementing Differentiated Instruction Strategies Utilizing Project-Based Learning in TEFL Enhancing Communication Skills in ESL Students Creating Engaging Lesson Plans for TESOL Courses Promoting Cultural Understanding in TEFL Assessing Student Progress Effectively Fostering a Positive Learning Environment Continuing Professional Development in ESL Teaching In the field of ESL teaching, utilizing advanced teaching techniques is crucial for engaging students and enhancing their language learning experience. By incorporating innovative methods, educators can cater to diverse learning styles and create a dynamic classroom environment that promotes active participation and knowledge retention....  [Read more]

  Understanding TESOL Methodologies Implementing Communicative Language Teaching Incorporating Technology in TESOL Adapting Materials for Diverse Learners Creating Engaging Lesson Plans Assessing Student Progress Effectively Promoting Cultural Awareness in the Classroom Managing Classroom Dynamics Professional Development in TESOL Impact of TESOL on Global Education TESOL encompasses a variety of teaching approaches and techniques tailored to English language learners. It involves understanding the principles behind methods like communicative language teaching, task-based learning, and the lexical approach. By grasping these methodologies, teachers can effectively cater to the diverse needs of students and create engaging learning environments. TESOL encompasses a variety of teaching...  [Read more]

1. The Importance of Effective Teaching Techniques 2. Advantages of Using Effective Teaching Techniques 3. Strategies for Implementing Effective Teaching Techniques 4. Conclusion Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) are increasingly in demand due to the growing importance of English as a global language. As a teacher, it is essential to use effective teaching techniques to help students learn and improve their language skills. Effective teaching techniques can make the learning process more engaging, enjoyable, and successful for both teachers and students. By incorporating innovative and proven methods into their lessons, teachers can create a positive and dynamic learning environment that fosters student participation...  [Read more]