TEFL Reviews

Depending on the stage of learning we can use different tests to evaluate students? level of English language (placement, practice, diagnostic, progress and external tests)...

This unit outlined how we read and listen as individuals...

This unit covers types of special groups that a teacher may encounter when teaching English as a second language...

The unit gives a wide range of class tools and resources that can be used to keep the students active and engaged but also tools that can help the teacher...

In our classes we use music and videos at the start of every lesson to grab the students' attention...

This unit covered the use of course books when teaching...

In Unit 3 various EFL methodologies; usages of Elicitation; ESA structure and variants (Straight Arrow, Boomerang, and Patchwork) were explained...

This unit provides an understanding of the various methods and techniques to teach different groups...

Unit 15 - Evaluation and testing guides us how to find out and check students' level and knowledge...

In this unit I learned about different groups that can be taught and how to teach these specialized groups, such as: business people, children, and beginner students...

Reported speech, passive voice and relative clauses can also be very challenging because they have many details and specific ways to use them...

Unit 3 shows the different theories, methods, and techniques...

In this unit, we learnt two main parts, pronunciation and phonology which is very important for every single language...

This unit is about modals, phrasal verbs, and the passive voice...

This unit dealt with challenges that an English teacher can encounter in a new cultural environment in English teaching...

The teachers's attitude on the first video is unacceptable! It seems like he sneering at his students...

Unit 18 provides an in depth explanation of modals, phrasal verbs, and the passive voice in English Grammar...

Many different teaching aids can be used to make lessons more interesting, effective and less dependent on the textbook...

There are pros/cons of using authentic and created materials for ESL students...

This Unit covered the proper way to teach vocabulary to your class...

While there are a number of methodologies for teaching English as a foreign language, the ESA approach is the method that encompasses the best of the approaches...

I have learned that even an exercise in trying to describe something as simple as present tenses can be incredibly challenging when analyzing the nuances in the three major tense forms: past, present, and future...

This unit featured two video lessons of demonstration ESA lessons...

This unit went over lessons planning...

Unit 17 deals with equipment and teaching aids...

EFL learner needs to understand that Indirect speech focuses more on the content of what someone said rather than their exact words...

This unit taught us about pronunciation and phonology, pronunciation being the use of a rise and fall of the intonation, and emphasis of the voice and also the use of stressing certain words, and therefore syllables within those words to help to express the meaning of the sentence, it also illustrated the use of sound joining and linked speech...

Unit 9 was very helpful and informative on how to build a proper lesson plan so a teacher can teach ESL learners in the most optimal way...

In this unit, I learned about books and materials...

This lesson focuses on the Productive skills of Speaking and writing...

After undergoing this unit, I feel that it has helped me gain new ideas on how to troubleshoot potential problems which I might face in the future - such as ensuring that I do not show I know their native language so that the students would not communicate in any language but English, as well as knowing how to help students who are reluctant and/or those with difficulty in learning from listening to voice texts...

In this unit, it is important to note how fluency and ease of communication in a classroom is most vital...

Teachers should be aware of using different techniques and activities when teaching specific groups such as beginners, young learners and business students...

My analysis of this unit, is that this may be particularly the most difficult section to get across to the students...

When learning these types of speech it would be beneficial for the students to work in groups or pairs as the unit stated...

To sum up, this unit has provided quite useful and practical topics related to class management, with its main focus on children and business English...

This unit taught me the importance of flexibility within a lesson plan as well as the importance of having a lesson plan and notes...

Unit 5 gives us information about class management...

Course books are the main focus of this unit...

This unit talks about the complexities and difficulties of teaching English pronunciation to students and offers different ideas on how to present and teach the information efficiently...