TEFL Reviews

This unit explains the various types of the present tense...

This unit focused on productive skills such as speaking and writing...

Accuracy and fluency are both important in developing speaking and writing skills...

Unit One discussed the various roles of a teacher and when to use the roles...

This unit covers two areas of the English language that, although they are very important, are often overlooked by many teachers, such as, pronunciation and phonology...

This unit discusses the characteristics of a good teacher as well as those of a good learner...

In the previous unit I learned that reading/listening are receptive skill, and in this unit I learned that speaking/writing are productive skills...

Grammar breaks down parts of speech such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, articles, and prepositions...

This unit covers the different types of learners and teachers, levels and general attitude of different age groups towards learning...

This unit was about pronunciation, considered one of the most neglected aspects of English language teaching...

This unit covered the different methodologies and approaches to teaching English...

This chapter brought me back into the idea of teaching in the classroom...

This by far was one of the hardest units to understand for potential lesson planning...

I learned about the difficulties for foreigners learning pronunciation of English due to many sounds coming from one spelling, and the same sound having many spellings...

This unit dealt with pronunciation and phonology...

The first thing that surprised me about Unit 4 immediately, was the fact that there were 12 tenses in \"the tense system\" that EFL teachers have discovered...

I think this unit is the most useful one until now...

**Some of the above questions were a little unclear** Classroom management Using eye contact, gestures, voice and students names Grouping students as: whole class, individual work, pair work and group work; pros and cons of each Classroom arrangement, factors to consider Using: orderly rows, circles/horseshoes and seperate tables Teacher's position, moving around classroom, standing vs sitting and when each is appropriate Writing on the board and ways to avoid turning back to class Importance of giving each student individual attention Teacher talking time (TTT) and student talking time (STT); importance of both, advantages and disadvantages and how to maintain a balance of the two Giving effective instructions: using simple language, being consistent, using visual clues, checking the instructions Establishing rapport with students and developing classroom spirit Maintaining discipline in the class, factors which affect classroom discipline, reasons for problem behavior, how to prevent problem behavior and how to respond to problem behavior...

This unit explained about the use of course books and what to expect from them...

This unit was very useful because I learned that classroom management is the skill of organizing and managing, having a friendly, relaxed manner and maintaining discipline...

There are a number of different teaching aids and materials that can be used in the ESL classroom...

•Unit 11 review• This unit has shown me the importance of reading and listening skills, there are other skills as well, such as writting and speaking which are also very important...

From the Teaching Special Groups Unit I have learnt important information about teaching beginners and the three categories of the beginners, the methodologies and the techniques used, the possible problems a teacher could meet while teaching beginners and how to motivate the beginners to learn a foreign language...

In this lesson, I learn the importance of receptive skill...

I can see why the future tense is said to be one of the most complex areas...

Teaching the receptive skills section is beneficial because it begins to breakdown the type of skills necessary for language, in this case reading and listening being two out of the four...

I have learned that there are a number of methods that can be used to teach learners of English but that the recommended method is ESA, or Engage, Study, Activate...

In unit 19, I learned what kinds of different groups there are and how to approach and teach them...

This unit covered the various teaching materials we could use for the EFL/EYL classroom, as well as their advantages and disadvantages...

Phonetics, pronunciation, and the linguistic processes of producing sound have always greatly interested me...

Productive skills are speaking and writing...

This was a great unit with tons of informations about different teaching methods, who knew there were that many? I like the fact that the ESA model is all I need to focus on as I start and will explore different formats such as the boomrang or the patchwork lessons as I become more comfortable...

Unit 11 zooms in on receptive skills and how to teach these...

Unit 9 Overview We all want to be effective, successful teachers...

A TESOL teacher needs to know how to adapt to an unfamiliar country/environment, since teaching English is an international job...

This lesson/unit is really important, because it teaches us about the daily life of a teacher...

Most native English speakers are not aware of the different parts of speech whilst using them...

This unit was extremely helpful to piece together all of the information I have learned about the classroom up to this point...

This has been the unit that represents 13!!!! Phonology- the physical properties of sound...

This unit features two videos of English teaching using the same teacher, the same students, the same teaching point (introducing modal auxiliary verbs), but with two very different teaching styles and outcomes due to the differences in the teaching methods used by the teacher...