TEFL Reviews

Studying this unit has been very encouraging to me in consideration that I have only a short amount of experience in Teaching English as a Foreign Language...

There are different special groups for teaching English...

Unit 14 was essentially about different types of teaching materials that are usually available to educators...

This unit examines the advantages and disadvantages of using course books and materials in lessons as well as pointing out the factors that should be considered when choosing a course book for your class (if you are given the choice to choose one yourself)...

Course books are a very emotive issue for many teachers...

Teaching productive skills which are reading and writing...

This is probably the most difficult unit thus far...

To express actions or states in future we can use different tenses depending on what kind of information and attitude we have...

In this unit, they have emphasized the importance of writing a lesson plan ahead of the class...

Writing and speaking skills are equally important but at the same time very different on the way they are approached and taught during class...

In Unit 6, talking about the past is very challenging for non-speaking English students...

This is the unit I was most looking forward to and also worried about...

Watching the two demo lessons for this unit reminded me of how important it is to enter the classroom cheerfully and to maintain that positive attitude throughout the lesson...

Unit 16 focused on Conditionals and reported speech...

Speaking and writing are considered productive skills...

Unit 19 gives a hierarchy of students' language levels...

In this unit I learned the importance in the assessment of a group of student and their desires and needs...

Another great unit which enables me to learn a lot of useful classroom management techniques!! In my past teaching, most of my classrooms were arranged as a whole group where students sit in orderly rows, so that they could focus more on my presentation and the important points, but I ignored the benefits of a dynamic classroom setting: small grouped seats will not only encourage more student talk time but also assist weaker students in an intimate way...

This unit can essentially be broken down into explanation of teaching methods, introduction to the ESA method, and feedback and correction techniques...

There are many conditionals we can use to show possibilities in the past, present and future...

Unit 12 was about the importance of productive skills for ESL and EFL learners must learn...

In this unit, seven forms of future tense were outlined: future simple, future continuous, future perfect, future perfect continuous, be going + infinitive, present simple, and present continuous...

Much of what teachers are doing to assess the students progress are through tutorials, evaluations from students, and tests...

For me, this unit of study has been the most difficult, to date...

In this lesson I have learnt the passive voice, phrasal verbs, and relative clauses...

Going through this unit I intentionally took more time to observe the techniques my teachers of Thai language are using and tried to identify it with material in this lesson...

From this lesson, I learned that a proper classroom room management comes with routines and rituals helps students feel more secure...

In this unit, we have covered the parts of speech...

This unit discussed lesson planning, and the importance of flexibility and experience when it comes to lesson planning...

Unit Eighteen offers a good overview of modals, phrasal verbs, and passive voice...

In contrast to Unit 11, Unit 12 presents the teaching of the productive skills of speaking and writing...

This unit provided an overview on managing classes...

This unit summarizes a variety of different TEFL methods, some more popular than others, with a particular focus on the Engage, Study, Activate method...

The unit at hand focused on why, when and how a lesson should be planned...

This unit provided an overview of the different roles a teacher can have and then delved into the types of learners and teaching styles...

Unit 20 addressed common problems a teacher may face in class especially in a new class and how to deal with them...

Though Part of the lesson was a recap of was was presented in unit 3 I learned appropriate ways to bring on new vocabulary and new topics for students...

This unit provides a breakdown of the 'parts of speech', which entails how and why we use specific words in specific places in a sentence...

Unit 14 covers coursebooks and lesson materials topic...

The final unit covered some of the most common problems that teachers encounter in the classroom such as taking over a class or starting a new class, dealing with reluctant students, working with multi-levelled students in a classroom and etc...