TEFL Reviews

This unit discussed an important and fun consideration when planning lessons, course materials...

Overall the methodology or techniques used in teaching the language depends on the teacher themselves...

Organisation is a very important element for a successful course and a lesson plan helps teachers in many ways: in every moment we know what to do and what we have done and moreover, we feel more confident if we have a plan we can rely on...

An important part of this unit is the techniques that can be used to teach intonation...

Reading and listening are receptive skills...

While many would divide the tenses into three forms (past present future), there are actually a whopping twelve forms in English (past, present, and future are broken up into simple, continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous)...

This unit covered the methods for teaching students new language...

This lesson introduces how to plan a class...

The content of this Unit was easy for me to understand,but quite difficult to remember...

This section deals with future tense, which poses special challenges to English language learners, in part from the difficulty of knowing which future tense suits the occasion, in part from the complexity of forming future constructions grammatically...

Unit 2 is based on the parts of speech used in the English language...

This was by far the most difficult (and most fun) unit so far because I'm not as familiar with phonetics as I am with the other topics...

The unit discusses how to teach languages: namely vocabulary and grammar structures...

This lesson circled back around to the Engage-Study-Activate model of teaching once again to provide some examples of how this method can be applied to teaching a new language...

This unit is vital in the process of learning how to teach because it's important to know what role each word takes in a sentence and be able to identify the rules and patterns...

Unit 19 - Teaching Special Groups Teaching beginners: • The absolute beginner • The false beginner • The adult beginner • The young beginner • The beginner without a Roman alphabet Tips for teaching beginners: • Methodology and techniques • Possible problems • Motivation Teaching individual students: • Suitable 1-1 activities • Homework • Checking Teaching children: • In the classroom • The lesson • Class discipline / management • Some don’ts to bear in mind Business English/ English for specific purposes (ESP): • Clients • What they need • Needs analysis and planning the course • Planning the program • Materials • Things to consider The monolingual and the multilingual class: Avoiding the use of the mother tongue in the classroom...

This unit has briefly described the general theories about learning and development from infancy to full maturation...

Conditionals present a challenge for newer students because it can mix different tenses between two clauses of the same sentence...

This unit discussed the teaching of pronunciation and phonology...

In the Unit four of this course I learned about materials available for use in the classroom and how the materials can be introduced in our lesson planning...

In this unit we watch 2 videos of an ESA lesson...

Teaching vocabulary is very important to the students...

In this unit we learn about the different teaching theories, techniques and methods...

Unit 10 provided a demonstration of both proper execution and poor execution of an ESL lesson...

Modal auxiliary verbs can be used to express different ideas such as ability, advise, obligation, permission and possibility...

Summary The key objective of this unit was learning how to teach receptive skills (reading and listening) and productive skills (speaking and writing)...

This chapter helps us better understand what receptive skills are and how to teach them...

Through this unit, I have learnt that being a good teacher requires much more than just subject knowledge...

This unit discussed the choice of course books and materials not published scholastically, known as authentic materials...

Unit 8 deals with the future tenses; future simple, future perfect, future continuous, and future perfect continuous...

This unit is about learning theories and teaching methods...

Reading and listening are equally important however, they occur for different reasons and motives...

I like the ideas this unit presents as far as how to engage the students in different ways both through reading and listening...

This unit covers how to effectively introduce vocabulary, grammatical structures and language functions to students...

I appreciate the numerous examples and games that this section covered...

I was relieved to learn about evaluation and testing in foreign language studies, because I haven't any formal training on this topic...

Testing and evaluating students should be done on a regular basis as it helps in knowing how much did the students improve through a specific period of time...

The last unit contains the information about troubleshooting in the ESL classes – for example, conducting the first lesson, difficulty in listening to the dialogues for learners, working with a large class or when students try to use their first language, not English...

I have learned about lesson planning in this unit...

Unit 4 is about the present tense in all its forms: simple present, present continuous, present perfect and present perfect continuous...