Reading Extensively

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Top Tips for Teaching Reading to Younger Groups of Students There are four basic skills in any language: receptive skills – reading and listening, and productive skills – speaking and writing. Usually, when we learn a new language, we tend to access our learning process and result by checking how our productive skills are and forget that before we can the product, we need to receive first. Data says that the production of every 100 words in writing needs a receipt of 1000 words in reading which means to be able to produce anything, one must get as much as 10 times receipt. Similarly in listening and speaking. Table of Contents Receptive Skills: Writing vs. Reading Decoding Reading aloud for fluency Learning how to read...  [Read more]

Tue, 02 Jun 2020 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Reading as a Part of Language Acquisition In the following essay, I have chosen to explain my personal experience on why reading can be an invaluable resource in both primary (L1) and secondary (L2) language acquisition. Table of Contents Reading in Early Childhood Lack of Authentic Materials Migration Real-Life Practice Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course today! Related Articles: This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Manuel G. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Reading in Early Childhood As a very young child, my mother read to me at night until I fell asleep. By the age of 2, I could speak in simple but uninterrupted sentences with...  [Read more]

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 Mark Crocker Alumni Experiences Teaching Receptive Skills to Business English Students Being able to listen and read is an indispensable part of being a fluent user of the English language. I have been teaching business English since 1993 and know that the primary tasks of my students are acquiring exposure to the English-speaking business environment, immersing themselves in anglophone culture and being able to comprehend complex ideas in their professional fields through different media. As broadband Internet connection becomes ever more pervasive, students are switching from printed information sources to video and text content available online. Learners' increasing demands represent an even greater challenge for me as an EFL tutor. The question then becomes, how...  [Read more]

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas How Important is Slang and Idioms in Language Learning? For a native English speaker, it is easy to understand as they are commonly used every day in casual conversation. But for ESL students, this type of informal English might as well sound like Mumbo Jumbo! (Make no sense).That's because most students are taught proper, textbook English like: Table of Contents Consider the same sentence in slang Business students generally need correct textbook English as, However, certain types of Idioms are used in business every day, Regional Generational Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course! Related Articles: "[name of person], are you going anywhere today?""No. I'm just relaxing at home." This post was written by our TEFL...  [Read more]

Mon, 29 Apr 2019 Linda Dunsmore Alumni Experiences Will motivated students learn more English? There is little doubt that students who are interested, involved and motivated are easier to teach. Motivated students are forthcoming and attentive, the class flows easily, and there is more response and creativity during activities. So, with a class full of motivated kids, we find our English class is more fun. But does that mean the students can learn as much? Table of Contents The level of motivation is tied to the teacher's response. Motivated students are more eager to learn. How to motivate your students Are you ready to teach English as a foreign language? Related Articles: Listen to this blog post This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Melanie S. The level of...  [Read more]

Wed, 09 Oct 2019 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas How to Learn Teaching Skills: Algorithm for Self-Practice Teaching is one of the most important occupations in society. And Even though teachers are not appreciated in many parts of the world, their importance is unquestionable. They build up the next generations and without them, society would eventually fall. Being a teacher requires a specific set of skills. Some people are more talented than others in delivering information or explaining. However, with learning and patience, anyone can be a teacher. These specific teaching skills are divided into two main directions: Design and delivery. In the following paragraphs, I am talking in more detail about them. I am also starting with the definition of a teacher. Table of Contents...  [Read more]

Tue, 16 Jul 2019 Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences The 2 Best Things I’ve Got From My TEFL Course: Alumni Experience Though I have been an English teacher for a period of seven (7) years in two different countries including my home country, yet I spent hours trying to decide the most appropriate topic for my summative essay, I finally decide to choose "The best thing I've learned from my TEFL/TESOL course" Why? Because I genuinely learned a lot during the course of my study and I will like to share my views, but I will discuss only two major points in this essay. Table of Contents Listen to this blog post: 1. Lesson Planning 2. ESA Methodology Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course today! Related Articles: This post was written by our TEFL certification...  [Read more]

Fri, 21 Feb 2020 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas What are the Different Techniques that Have Been Used to Teach Students a New Language? Throughout history, several different teaching approaches and methodologies have been tried and tested with some being more popular and effective than others.There are various teaching methods and techniques that are employed to help students learn a new language and this critique explains the advantages/disadvantages and effectiveness of some of the more important approaches. Table of Contents Grammar Translation The Audio-Lingual Method The Structural Approach Suggestopedia Total Physical Response (TPR) The Silent Way Task-Based Language Learning The Lexical Approach Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course! Related Articles: ...  [Read more]

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 Federico Riva TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas 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. Table of Contents Watch the live session here Are you ready to teach English abroad or online? Related Articles: Check out what our course grads say in our many video...  [Read more]

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]

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]

ESA Methodology of Teaching - Why Every Teacher Should Use It 08/26/2021 hello oh my gosh hello welcome hi linda here from itt back with another live session this week hi guys how are you doing um first of all if you can see me if you can hear me just drop a quick hi into um the comment box we are actually live on facebook and we're also live on youtube at the same time so if you can see me if you can hear me please just let me know and also let me know where you're watching from where are you at right now i am in south korea it is 10 a.m friday morning i'm super excited to be here again so um yeah sometimes there are some technical difficulties i had some issues i think last week so um there was no sound for some reason for for a few seconds so if that happens just let me know and then...  [Read more]