TEFL Reviews

In Unit 5, I learned all about classroom management...

Recognizing and classifying the parts of speech could be a great way to start acquiring a good English language knowledge...

In this unit I learned about the structure of a lesson plan and the aims and objectives of each lesson plan...

I have learnt from this unit that lesson planning is very important for both the teacher and students as this give a structured and organised way of planning and executing a lesson effectively...

I have been excited about the prospects of teaching English for several years now...

This unit covered a variety of topics...

This unit explained the different ways in which students can be evaluated for their language ability, and the uses for certain kinds of exams...

Pronunciation is probably the most neglected aspect of English language teaching...

This unit explores the different ways of evaluating a students progress in the course...

In this unit, I had the opportunity to review the underlying grammatical functions and classifications of: simple, continuous, perfect and compound usages of past tense in English...

I've learned that there are two types of skills that students need to develop in order to learn a language...

Vocabulary, grammar and functions I like the idea that grammar is the tree trunk/branches and vocabulary is the leaves Lessons will vary with depth of what is focused on Common to use straight arrow ESA when teaching grammar and vocabulary Common to use more complex ESA structures, boomerang or patchwork, when teaching functions-based lessons Teaching vocabulary, factors that affect difficulty to students Criteria to select vocabulary What students need to know about a vocabulary item Techniques for each stage of vocabulary teaching (ESA) and a typical ESA vocabulary lesson Introducing grammatical structures and what students will need to know from each lesson Techniques for each stage of presenting and practicing language structures (ESA) and a typical ESA grammar lesson Teaching language functions, importance of activation of language in these lessons Typical ESA functions lesson (boomerang)...

In this unit I learned about what it takes to be a good teacher...

There are four basic skills with regards to any language; receptive skills (reading and listening) and productive skills (speaking and writing)...

This lesson I learned about the different roles and characteristics of both teachers and learners...

This unit gave a lot of detailed information about the most common methods and techniques for teaching...

First, in the second lesson, the teacher starts off by familiarizing himself with the student names...

The unit focused on lesson planning...

There are 15 different teaching aids used to make the lessons more interesting and engaging...

During this section of the course I have learnt the qualities that are required to be a good teacher...

I liked the practical and easy approach of the ESA methodology...

This unit has covered the essentials of lesson planning...

This unit focused on the productive skills, speaking and writing...

This unit covered special groups of students and the unique issues and requirements for those learners...

In this unit and with the videos provided I could understand than the teacher's attitude towards the class and the students influences a lot the respond of the students during the whole lesson...

After reading this section I felt overwhelmed by the amount of information and the task that will lay before me when teaching pronunciation and phonology...

I spend some time considering the goal and target language for each lesson...

This unit focused on receptive skills - reading and listening - the different skills that they comprise, and methods for teaching them effectively...

After reading unit 16 thoroughly, I learnt about the five main conditions and the way how to switch direct speech to reported speech...

The grammar and every teacher must have a deep knowledge of grammar...

Unit 3 explores the advantages and drawbacks of various methodologies in language teaching...

This unit focused on the receptive skills, reading and listening...

In this unit I learned about the different types of exams used in the classroom and outside (external exams) and the role they play in the learning and mastering of English...

In every language, there are always problems in teaching skills, and most common problems are related when the students have difficult in learning a new word, most of them are from different countries, don´t have english basics...

In this unit I learned a lot about the classroom and how the teacher's position, vocal output and even the layout of the students can have a big effect...

This unit introduced a number of language learning methodologies, discussing their strengths and weaknesses, while introducing the Engage, Study and Activate (ESA) methodology as a synthesis of the best parts of all of them...

This final unit was on troubleshooting, tips to approach individual situations...

There are three ways to assess student's language level, which are Tutorials, Evaluation by students and Tests...

In unit 2, we are very briefly introduced to 4 different learning and developmental theories (maturationists, constructivists, environmentalists and cognitive develpmentalists) before going into a comparison about how people learn L1 and L2...

In this unit, the conditionals and the direct/indirect speech were all explained...