TEFL Reviews

There is a large variety of students seeking to learn English as a second language for several purposes and under diverse circumstances...

This unit discussed the productive skills of speaking and writing...

This last unit addresses issues teachers may face in the classroom...

The ways in which we learn are all different...

This unit gave an overview of the characteristics of a good teacher and some basic principles in teaching...

Watching both videos showed how different a class can turn out based on the attitude of the teacher and the organization of the lesson...

To use a course book in class or not is a controversial question...

This unit focused on organizing a classroom by grouping students together according to learning level and personalities, by arranging student seating to achieve the best learning environment, and by maintaining an orderly and well disciplined class...

I absolutely loved reading about the different methods for teaching another language...

This unit discussed classroom materials and how they are best used in the classroom setting...

In this unit, I learned about phonology and pronunciation...

This unit gives insights on how to teach groups...

Your answer: As we know, there are four basic skills in any language; Reading and listening skills are considered as receptive skills when we acquired by all second language speakers and learners...

This lesson conveyed the varying roles that a teacher may assume when interacting with students, as well as describing many possible types of students that a teacher may encounter...

Unit Ten was a combination of two different video lessons of the same teacher with the same group of students...

In Unit 10 in regards to the 2 videos it is quickly evident that in the first video the students are confused and do not want to participate...

Wow; these were both INCREDIBLY POWERFUL videos in their own right! The first showed a teacher who basically displayed that he would have preferred to be anywhere in the WORLD except within that class! He was incredibly agitated, had a HORRIBLE attitude, pretty much bullied the students and really had no concern at ALL in explaining anything in a proper fashion...

In this unit I learnt about the two receptive skills, reading and listening and how they are just as important as the productive skills, speaking and writing...

Present tense definition: The present tense signals an action that is currently going on or habitually performed...

This first unit helped me to make an idea of what a good teacher is: A good teacher is that one who adapts what to teach, when to teach, and how to teach it, depending on the students' necessities, age, skills level or motivation...

Following are some of the resources often found in classrooms and study centers: White/black board, Interactive whiteboard (IWB), Overhead projector (OHP), Visual aids, Worksheets and work cards, Cassette recorder, CD player, Videos and DVDs, Video camera, Dictionaries, Course books, Resource books, Photocopier, Computers, Online resources...

In this unit,I learned that course books are a very emotive issue for us...

This chapter was interesting, because I had never realized before that the past and present tense forms of verbs are so similar...

Tips for teaching beginner students were extremely helpful...

To start with a course, the student performs a diagnostic and then a placement test...

This has been the most interesting unit by far, as it demonstrates clear theory on how complex pronunciation can be...

The unit 13 of this course focus on how to teach pronunciation and phonology , a very important way to increase learners fluency and accuracy ...

This lesson went a lot more in-depth with the phases of the lesson, and I've learned to better distinguish what kinds of activities should be used for each phase...

Unit 16 Conditions & Reported Speech, covers both how the \"if\" and \"when\" conditionals are used and how reported speech is differentiated from direct speech in English...

This unit is about teaching receptive skills...

Evaluation of the students in order to determine their progress, points of strengths and weaknesses and prepare for future lessons is very important and takes different forms...

Modal Auxiliary verbs are can, could, may might, shall, would, will, would, must, have to, have got to, need to, needn't and ought to...

I enjoyed reading and learning about the different purposes of testing and assessment used for EFL learners...

As learning another language is not the same as learning our first language, the methods of learning English is totally different from the mother language learning...

Watching these two video lessons, were eye opener to how a teacher is the most important participate in the classroom...

This unit discussed the importance of materials...

As short as this unit was, it was an important one...

I really enjoyed this unit...

This unit covers the different requirements, characteristics and practices for special groups of learners...

This unit covered two types of teaching styles from two videos...