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Stories for ESL Students of Different Age Groups - TEFL Blog
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Stories for ESL Students of Different Age Groups
Stories expose the students to more language, they engage and motivate the learner, they can be used to teach the structure of a language and the concepts about print which may be different between cultures. Stories with images can also help the students anchor their knowledge about the text. Listening to stories also helps the students hear accents and how words are pronounced. However, it is important to choose the correct book or story for the students you are working with. If familiar storylines are chosen the student is more likely to understand the story. It is also important to take into consideration the interests of the students and to find text on those topics.
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4 Main Problems of Building Reading Habits in EFL Students
Thu, 13 Aug 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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4 Main Problems of Building Reading Habits in EFL Students
Even in the first language, it can be difficult to get children reading. There are many reasons they may turn their nose up at a book. In some way, I think most of those reasons can be boiled down to boredom.
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The Importance of a Good Example
Common Challenges
1. First, it's still, quiet activity.
2. Second, for very young children, the act of reading itself can present a challenge, and the content of the book must be worth the effort they made to understand the words.
3. Third, children must be presented with a variety of book topics.
4. Lastly, reading should not be used as a punishment if you can help it.
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Teaching Slang & IdiomsInstructing Slang and Idioms may be a tedious task for a teacher, but it can convey a necessary understanding of the cultural communication. I want to discuss the importance of instructing this vital means of communication after quickly examining the backlash against texting slang from the community. In the day and age when students of all ages are online and available through assorted forms of social media and mobile devices, the... [Read more]
Top Tips for Instilling a Love of Reading in Children - TEFL Blog
Thu, 29 Jun 2023 Federico Riva
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Top Tips for Instilling a Love of Reading in Children
Reading is one of the most essential parts of learning a language as it not only facilitates language development but also enhances abstract skills such as visualization and imagination. For young learners and children, reading plays a vital role, as their vivid imagination intensifies the reading experience. However, their short attention spans can pose challenges in maintaining engagement with written material. So, how can we instill a genuine love of reading in children without relying solely on authority figures?
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Empowering Children to Take the Initiative
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From Immigrant to ESL Teacher - A TEFL Graduate's English Teaching Journey - TEFL Blog
Tue, 29 Jan 2019 Linda Dunsmore
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From Immigrant to ESL Teacher - A TEFL Graduate's English Teaching Journey
This blog post was written by our TEFL graduate Ning Z., who shares their own personal story of learning English after emigrating to the United States from China at the age of 18 and how this personal learning experience helped them to become a TESOL teacher today.
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I had emigrated to the US from China at the age of 18 and am delighted to be able to share my language acquiring experience and shed some light on some of the challenges a new language learner might encounter during the course of... [Read more]
Why Reading is Necessary for Successful Language Acquisition - TEFL Blog
Mon, 29 Mar 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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Why Reading is Necessary for Successful Language Acquisition
Learning a language begins with developing the receptive skills, either consciously or subconsciously, to get familiar with how the language is used and later for producing the language learned or observed. The sensory abilities include two modules: reading and listening. Of them, reading skills can have a wide variety of impacts not only on the individuals' overall language learning but also on the development of them as individuals.
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Means of Expression
Grammar and Vocabulary
Speaking Abilities
Motivation
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We help ‘adventure seekers’ start a well-paid job teaching English in Cambodia in record time – with the right work visa, accommodation, valid teaching certification – and zero headaches.AVSE-TESOL is a market leader in Cambodia's booming education and training sectors. We have entered contracts with 93 schools in Cambodia to provide quality candidates for ongoing, well-paid jobs teaching English as a second language (ESL). These positions offer an excellent opportunity for professionally-minded people - newcomers and experienced ESL teachers - of all ages who are motivated to teach English abroad. • While a university degree is highly... [Read more]
Reading and Listening: Why Are These Skills Important? - TEFL Blog
Thu, 04 Jun 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Reading and Listening: Why Are These Skills Important?
To begin with, receptive skills that are, reading and listening are important points in any language. Teachers need to be able to use them in their lessons to have a balanced approach when teaching.
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Why do we read?
Predictive abilities
Similarly, effective reading and listening lessons help students gain confidence.
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Reading as a Skill to Enhance General Language Ability - TEFL Blog
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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Reading as a Skill to Enhance General Language Ability
Reading affects language acquisition based on the level of the content read, the type of content, and the reader's external sources of language acquisition. This summative text will explain the different difficulties that can arise when any English learner uses reading as their sole or primary language acquisition mode.
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Anticipated Problems
Formal Vocabulary and Structures
The Problem of Spoken Language
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ICan is a Canada based online ESL company committed to transforming ESL learners into dynamic, confident English speakers. ICan offers Speaking Classes, Writing Classes, and IELTS preparation courses.
Ican Speaking: Young students of speaking and conversation are given interactive playful lessons with new vocabulary, phrases, and games. Our teachers are there to help guide their pronunciation, correct their mistakes, and to create as much conversation as they can from what the student has given them.
Mid-level and more advanced students use an interactive but less playful program which is more based on the conversational aspect of English. Along with grammar, the students are regularly prompted by the course material to speak on the different subjects introduced. Each... [Read more]
Common Learning Difficulties Faced in ESL Settings - TEFL Blog
Fri, 29 May 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Common Learning Difficulties Faced in ESL Settings
Learning is always hard especially learning something new such as English learning. English is a different new language compared with Chinese, so when we are learning, definitely we will meet all kinds of difficulties in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
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Most beginners think listening is the most difficult part of English learning.
Speaking can be improved dramatically from zero in a short time but it's quite difficult to speak accurately.
For most Chinese people, English reading is not as difficult as listening or speaking.
Writing is always the hardest part of English for Chinese students.
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Keeping College Students Motivated in ESL Learning - TEFL Blog
Thu, 02 Jul 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Keeping College Students Motivated in ESL Learning
In my classroom, I often hear many of my students saying, "I want to be good at English." At the same time, I am aware that most of them almost lose their motivation for learning English. After studying English hard to pass the entrance examination, they are free from the "obligational" study of English. Now in college, no one in the classroom speaks out that English is unnecessary. On the contrary, they answered that they need to study English because it is a global language. More importantly, the ability to command the language strongly influences the success of their job hunting.
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Confusing Wills
Setting Goals
Reasons for the issue
Keeping motivation
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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
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Emotions
Possible risks
Voluntary reading
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How Teaching Slang Can Benefit Your ESL Students - TEFL Blog
Mon, 18 Mar 2019 Linda Dunsmore
Alumni Experiences
How Teaching Slang Can Benefit Your ESL Students
Stepping onto my flight from Miami to Santiago, Chile, I was confident in my Spanish skills. After all, I had taken nearly seven years of Spanish classes in middle and high school. However, when I landed I found, not only did I not understand 80% of what my host family said to me, they couldn't understand me either.
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"Learning slang words is immensely helpful."
"I was more motivated to retain these pieces of vocabulary and try them out in an attempt to sound more natural."
"Learning slang can also open up the conversation for cultural exchange."
"There are many activities that could be used to teach slang words."
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Top Ideas on How to Improve English Skills as a Non-Native English Teacher - TEFL Blog
Thu, 01 Apr 2021 Federico Riva
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Top Ideas on How to Improve English Skills as a Non-Native English Teacher
Hello everybody, it's Liza here. We are just about to start today's live session that is devoted to ideas on how to improve English skills. While I'm waiting for more people to join me let me just tell you about these live sessions. So we are doing them weekly and right now there are a lot of videos to check out on our YouTube channel and our Facebook group. If you missed any of these live streams you can go to our social networks and see any of them there.
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Top Tips for Improving English Skills as a Non-Native English Teacher
03/10/2021
hello everybody it's lizzy here so um
we are just about to start today's live session uh devoted to some ideas on how to
improve english skills and while i'm waiting for more people to join me uh
let me just tell you uh about this live sessions so we are doing them weekly on the
regular basis and right now there are um a lot of uh videos uh to check on our
uh youtube channel or facebook group uh so if you missed any of these live
streams um you can go to our social networks
and see those live streams hello everybody uh welcome to the new session and
um if you haven't heard already my name is lisa i'm a non-native english teacher
from russia and i can see that there are some people from the
philippines aaron... [Read more]
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Top Ideas on How to Improve English Skills as a Non-Native English Teacher
Hello everybody, it's Liza here. We are just about to start today's live session that is devoted to ideas on how to improve English skills. While I'm waiting for more people to join me let me just tell you about these live sessions. So we are doing them weekly and right now there are a lot of videos to check out on our YouTube channel and our Facebook group. If you missed any of these live streams you can go to our social networks and see any of them there.
Welcome to the new session and if you haven't heard already my name is Liza and I'm a non-native English teacher from Russia. I can see that there are some people from the Philippines here. Aaron, am I pronouncing your name correctly? Welcome from the... [Read more]