TEFL Reviews

I really enjoyed this unit because I am well-aware of the debate that rages regarding course material...

In this lesson, I learned about the difficulties and nuances of teaching pronunciation, which a majority of English learners view as the most difficult aspect of learning English...

Unit 19 gives many tips on how to teach different types of special groups...

Teachers need to be able to inspire confidence in students...

Unit 10 contrasted a poorly executed class with an effectively managed one...

When teaching a new language to a class, teachers must differentiate between vocabulary, grammar, and language functions, and then consider which ESA format is most appropriate...

Lesson planning is an integral part of teaching...

Unit Five discusses the planning and evaluation of lessons including the planning of individual sessions and a series of lessons...

I learnt that diagnosing issue with new learners of English can be challenging at times especially for new teachers...

Pronunciation is often neglected by teachers because it can be difficult for native speakers themselves to make sense of it - Why does \"broth\" sound different in \"brother,\" and why is \"heard\" pronounced differently from \"beard?\" Pronunciation, however, is critical for English students, not only to help them sound intelligent, but also to allow them to actually communicate their points...

This unit discusses evaluation and assessment through testing...

This unit was so helpful...

The purpose of this unit is to explain the complexities of correctly pronouncing words of the English language and the different meanings they carry depending on the context they're used in as well as ways they're pronounced...

The language learning experience has two important sides: the teacher and the learner...

I enjoyed this section a lot...

In this unit I learned about the rules of modal auxiliary verbs such as can, could, may, might, etc...

Unit 9 considered the issue of course materials -- the various kinds of materials, their comparative advantages and disadvantages, and the optimal strategies for ensuring that available materials are utilized in the most effective manner...

Unit 2 explained how each word in a sentence can be further classified, according to its purpose and the meaning it adds...

This unit compared a good lesson and a bad lesson...

Grammar introduction One should be able to break down a sentence into words(parts) according to its purpose and the meaning it adds, and to define each words(parts of speech)...

The future tense is a confusing subject for many students but this chapter breaks it down into its essential components...

In this unit I was able to get a clear idea of the different language levels and what they are exactly; I used to think there were only three, beginner, intermediate and advanced...

There are many methods of teaching a (foreign) language including Grammar-Translation; Audio-Lingualism; Presentation-Practice-Productivity; Task Based Learning; Communicative Language Learning; Community Language Learning; The Silent Way; Suggestiopaedia and The Lexicon Approach...

In Unit 6 I have learned that the system for past tenses are not very different from the present tense and use the same structure for identifying past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous sentences...

Unit 15 Evaluating & Testing, covers the different ways in which a students' English proficiency and progress can be measured...

In this unit, I have learned the grouping style to make the students class more lively...

There are so many teaching tools and so much equipment that I sometimes get panicked at the thought that I'm falling behind the rest of the world...

The Unit gives a brief display of the basic phonological terminology, namely intonation, stress and rhythm...

Unit 10 covered real life examples of a teacher in a English class...

This unit centered on the five future tenses, what forms they take on, and what their usages are...

This Unit covered the topics of modals, passive and active voice, relative clauses and phrasal verbs...

This unit covered the four basic language skills of reading, listening, speaking and writing...

This unit was very helpful by providing information on classroom management...

I have understood the differences among the four kinds of conditionals and the changes in verb tenses for reported speech...

There are several different tests given throughout a learners experience in language schools...

Proper and clear pronunciation is very important to emphasize to a class especially a lower level class...

In teaching, there will be different kinds of beginners classified by: their exposure to English, age range, and mother language...

Productive skills are often seen both as necessarily important, yet also 'scary' ~ in that speech happens in real time and may well be communicatively crucial, along with listening-comprehension of whatever answer comes from the native interlocutor...

Many teaching methods have been created through the history of teaching, parts of which then influenced the development and creation of the ESA method, which appears to be the most effective and logical of all methods used nowadays...

This unit covered a large variety of methods and techniques of teaching English as a foreign language...