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TESOL Hong Kong - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TESOL Courses in Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a city bursting with life and energy. From the hustle and bustle of the backstreet restaurants to the wheeling and dealing in the soaring skyscrapers, Hong Kong is an eclectic blend of East and West, old and new. Our TESOL course in Hong Kong will give you the chance to experience all this wonderful city has to offer.
Hong Kong’s population is predominantly of Chinese descent and Cantonese is widely spoken throughout the city. As you would expect in a city that has long been at the forefront of global financial business, the locals are sophisticated and well educated. English teachers in Hong Kong are held in high regard and the ability to speak English is highly valued by the local population. As such, English teachers can earn a higher salary in Hong Kong than in... [Read more]
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ESA: A Teaching Methodology
For many years Teachers of English have used the PPP model of Presentation, Practice and Production for the preferred model of teaching. It has worked well. The PPP model falls short however, in that it does not work well when teaching more complex language problems beyond the sentence level or when teaching communicative skills.
Jeremy Harmer in How to Teach English (Longman Publishing 1998) proposed an alternative to PPP called ESA: Engage, Study, and Activate. In an article written in The Guardian Weekend, March 15 1997, Bridget Riley complained about the treatment she and her fellow students received at the Royal College of Art. “We were abandoned when what we needed and what we hoped for was help toward independence in teaching rather than having... [Read more]
tesol articles TESOL Articles - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ Building Confidence in Students
Building Confidence in Students
Education is certainly the birthright of all people. The motivation of every nation should be to generate literate, well-educated and intelligent residents who are able to add to the proper progress and progress of the whole society.
There is still mystery on how accurately a foreign language is learnt. On the subject of building confidence there are yet more theories which are even more difficult to confirm. I myself do not trust that confidence is built using one magic activity, but rather it is continuously acquired all over the learning process. That’s why, all the theories I pick to focus on three things Grammar, Drilling, and of course the role of the teacher. All of these will prepare the student for circumstances they might meet later. [1]
After... [Read more]
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