TEFL Reviews

This unit focused on the importance of receptive and productive skills, in other words, reading/listening and speaking/writing...

This unit gave me some practical strategies to ensure that my students will feel safe, included and important in my classroom...

This unit is a good start for reporting information...

I have now learnt about both receptive and productive skills...

I found unit 8 to be quite difficult with really establishing which tense and structure to use as there are 7 different forms to take into consideration, with also the 'going to' , present simple and present continuous things get a little confusing...

In this unit I learned about the different ways of teaching productive skills...

If you consider English language like an ensemble of rules that you can use according to the tense (in this case past tenses) and learn how to code and to decode them by following the basic grammar rules, you will be fine...

The last unit troubleshooting talked about some of the most common problem situations that teachers may have in the class room and gives us some suggestions of dealing with them...

Unti 20 provided suggestions for dealing with potentially difficult scenarios, such as the first day in a new class, teaching to students with differing language levels, large classes, etc...

In this lesson I learned teaching methods such as Grammar-Translation, Presentation, Practice and Production and Task-based learning among others...

Classroom management skill is one of the factors a teacher needs to have and practice frequently to be successful in his/ her teaching...

This unit was about teaching the productive skills, reading and writing...

This unit is all about teacching pronunciation and phonology...

This unit helped me learn about the importance of listening and reading and what techniques and activities should be used to help students improve these skills...

This section was about the different past tenses...

This unit examined the Receptive Skills: reading and listening...

This unit discusses the present verb tense, one of the 3 verb tenses in the English language (Present, Past, and Future)...

Unit 19 covers types of classes or clients that a teacher is likely to encounter, such as beginners, individuals, children, businesses, multilingual, and monolingual...

This unit was about the productive skills (speaking and writing) with many similar methods in teaching, as we saw during the unit about the receptive skills...

This unit covers many different aspects of what every teacher needs to know to help maintain order in the classroom and maintain good rapport with students...

As a whole, I have enjoyed this course tremendously...

This unit was about the special kinds of groups that we as English as a second language teachers may have including groups like children and business people...

This unit was a lesson that went over some basic principles and ground rules of how to prepare for a lesson in relation to the overall curriculum...

Past Tenses include four forms...

This unit provided insight for the essential task of organizing students...

When a teacher teaches a class room they usually have a number of materials at their disposal...

This unit covers several important grammar points including modals, phrasal verbs and passive voice...

The Unit gives an extensive explanation on the theory of phonology, phonetics and pronunciation...

This unit covers the importance of lesson planning for effective learning...

Chapter five teaches us some useful tips on managing the class room...

From this unit I have learnt about managing classes and how much it is important to make eye contact, using gesture and voice and how to use them properly...

'Pronunciation and Phonology' is considered as the most difficult and confusing field among language teachers...

This Unit describes how to use equipment and teaching aids during a lesson and which kinds of them exist...

In unity ten we were asked to watch two videos of teaching lessons and compare the two lessons with each other...

Several methods for teaching L2 were presented along with the advantages and disadvantages of each...

This unit was very long and covered many things...

The unit covers receptive skills which are reading and writing...

This unit covered the the proper ways to speak and write...

Both of the productive skills (speaking and writing) very much intertwine as these are the skills that are seen by others...

I have struggled with this unit and hope that I will have a pass! With all the teaching that I have done I have never had to submit a lesson plan so it is new territory for me...