Methods And Techniques To Teach English

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lutou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yantai Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. A method of teaching contains the techniques used by teachers to impart knowledge to students. These strategies are determined partly on the subjects to be taught and partly by the nature of the learner. In this task, I will give some examples of different teaching methodologies, compare these techniques, and explain why it is important that teachers, mostly who are...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Ligezhuang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Qingdao Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Teachers use many different techniques to teach English language. It is ideal for the teachers have their own style that helps students to be eager to learn and, in this case, students have a good learning experience. Learning is a natural instinct of any human being. The main goal for the teacher is to find appropriate methods and techniques for the specific age...  [Read more]

Federico Riva Teaching Ideas This blog post focuses on the theories, methods and techniques of teaching, which are the three elements that make up any methodology and we can start with a statement; Some teachers believe that the intelligence of their own children is due to their genes, whilst the intelligence shown by their students is due to their teaching. This is an interesting statement because it contains within it a philosophical argument and it's a philosophical argument about the way in which we learn. Basically this first part of the sentence is saying that the intelligence of their own children comes about due to a natural process of genetic inheritance, so that it could be said to be due to nature. This is exactly the opposite of the second half of the sentence, which is...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shuidao Nongchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Akesu Diqu — Aksu? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit sheds the lights on the various theories, methods and techniques of teaching English as well as covering the uses,cons and pros of each one of them. Here is a brief explanation of some of these methodologies; The classical method (also known as the grammar-translation method) is a traditional technique which focuses on the translation of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zihe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zibo Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Language learning has seen different phases depending on the methodologies, theories and needs of specific periods. Different currents have privileged different techniques to improve student memorization. This is the case of drilling, greatly used by the audio-lingual method. With the rise of the communicative approach, its efficacy has been questioned. However, many...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Laodong Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ziyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. It is understood from this unit that throughout the years there have been several approaches, methods and techniques about teaching English. Back to 17th century, first we called 'The Classical Method' in other words 'Grammar Translation Method' which based on translating Greek and Latin to the nature language. Then it followed many other methods such as...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jianshe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zigong Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. In this class, it mainly introduces the theories, methods and techniques. Especially, some useful teaching methods like the Classical Method, which is the most popular method around the 17th used by scholars to translate ancient Greek and Latin texts into their native language. Besides, the Direct Method, it is also called the Natural Method, which tells us that if...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas A method of teaching contains the techniques used by teachers to impart knowledge to students. These strategies are determined partly on the subjects to be taught and partly by the nature of the learner. In this task, I will give some examples of different teaching methodologies, compare these techniques, and explain why it is important that teachers, mostly who are teaching in a foreign country should know these methods. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Nathalie L. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. One of the most effective methods of teaching is ESA (Engage, Study, and Activate); this teaching method allows your student to be exposed to the English language; having...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas The author and motivational speaker Hilary "Zig Zig" Ziglar wrote, "Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment." Drilling is defined as a teaching technique or method used when teaching a new language through extensive repetition by students, also aided through audio, oral, or even optical channels or props. As with other teaching methods, repetitive drilling has both advantages and disadvantages and has been deemed effective and ineffective over the years. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Terese H. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Drilling allows for frequent oral...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huzhu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zigong Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. I've leant a lot in unit three. In this part, it mainly talked about the theories, methods and techniques of teaching. I learnt the following method of teaching: the classical method, audio-lingualism, the silent way, suggestopedia, TPR , ESA and so on. Each method has its own positive factors and negative factors. Which one will the you use, it depends on your...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Kueerqisi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Aletai Dìqu — Altay? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This lesson is about Theories, methods and techniques. We have leanrt some methdologies of learning from the 17th century. The first ils ''the classical method'', unatural, with grammar translation. Then comes the direct method created by Gouin(1880 and Belitz(1990). This last one leads to some others metholgies such as Audiolingualism, Suggestopedia,...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Throughout history, several different teaching approaches and methodologies have been tried and tested with some being more popular and effective than others. There are various teaching methods and techniques that are employed to help students learn a new language and this critique explains the advantages/disadvantages and effectiveness of some of the more important approaches. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Thomas C. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. The first technique (dominantly used ‘up to the 1960s’) (Lier and Lier, 2001) is the Grammar Translation (or Classical) method based on the translation of words/passages from the ‘students native language’ as...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Bayi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changzhi Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Many students are being left behind by an educational system that some people believe is in crisis. Improving educational outcomes will require efforts on many fronts, but a central premise of this task is that one part of a solution involves helping students to better regulate their learning through the use of effective learning techniques. Fortunately, the different...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qiaqilike Muchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Akesu Diqu — Aksu? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Unit 3 makes the TEFL student aware of the different teaching theories and techniques available for use in the classroom, how they have developed over the years, their purpose as well as the positive and negative aspects of each technique as discovered in practice by other teachers in the past. It also suggests the ESA method as the best suited to new...  [Read more]

  Before looking at the methods or approaches themselves, there are some terms that we need to define. These are the approach, the method or the technique. Basically, these are hierarchical. The approach is an overriding set of principles that a method can actually make use of, whereas the technique are the things that we actually do in the classroom to approach that method. So, these three words are going to appear during the presentation. Again, for each of either the approaches all the methodologies we're going to ask four questions. So be it an approach or a method for each of those things: Where did it come from? What's its background? What does it involve when we're talking about actually in the classroom, in other words techniques? What is positive about it? What appears to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Payang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Rikaze Shi — Shigatse, Xigaze? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit teaches me about theories, methods and techniques in teaching English. For many years, we have used many methods. Each method has different advantages and disadvantages. We should take advantage of the positive points to perfect our teaching methods so that student can study with so much joy and absorb the lesson the best. This unit...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiaolukou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jining Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. As an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher, one of our key objectives is to support successful student learning. We strive to meet this objective by incorporating a variety of teaching theories, methods, and techniques – some more effective than others. In fact, as noted in this TEFL coursework, each method and technique has its advantages and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qiemuerqieke Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Aletai Dìqu — Altay? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This entire unit was devoted to the classification of theories, methods and techniques used in the classroom. I've noticed some techniques, that I've been using myself, found out its pros and contras. I totally agree with the author, that ESA technique is the most effective among listed. I hope, I can practice all the activities, games and ideas...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas There are a lot of teaching methods. Some of them are more popular, some of them less. But the theme of this summative task is about efficiency, not about the most interesting or the most popular method. So, is drilling an effective teaching method? If we want to ask this question, first, we need to consider the following question: “What is drilling?”. After this, we can discuss the pros and cons of this method. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Dmitry S. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. In short, drilling is a classroom technique that used to practice a new language. In common sense, it involves modeling a word by the teacher and the learners repeating it. But our...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Miaoqian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yuncheng Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Every teacher has a different way of teaching.Over the years teaching and the education system has evolved tremendously and is still modernizing quickly each day. Today, teachers have many different tools they can use to adjust lessons to students who have different learning styles. It is the teacher’s responsibility to engage the students in the lessons and...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas The word ‘drilling’ in education refers to a teaching technique in which the teacher creates a certain pattern or structure to be practiced repeatedly by the students, for them to ultimately develop a system where they may identify and use the pattern or structure independently. Drilling as a technique has been put to use in teaching almost all subjects, but its efficacy has been particularly acknowledged in the field of language teaching, for training students in both pronunciation as well as grammar. However, just as it has been lauded for being a foolproof system of making students ‘practice’ a language, drilling has also been criticized for being a mechanical and largely monotonous process of memorization, followed by reproduction that is...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhai Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Tai'an Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Why observation teaching is important. Observation is an important part of learning how to teach. I say this because I would highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in becoming a teacher. Classroom observation presents an opportunity to see real-life teachers in real-life teaching situations. Teachers are forever reflecting and making decisions, and when they...  [Read more]

  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word lampoon. This word can be used as a verb and as a noun. Used as a verb, it describes the action of criticizing a person or a topic by using ridicule. The noun lampoon refers to the actual speech or text used to critize someone or something. The word was taken from the French word lampon. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next. This Unit discusses methods, theories, and techniques which are used in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wensu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Akesu Diqu — Aksu? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit focused on different theories, methods and techniques for teaching EFL. It outlined some advantages and disadvantages of each and expanded on the Engage, Activate and Study method used in this course. Some of the ideas presented in this unit I have used in my young learners class and found useful so it is helpful to know I am already using approved...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Ziyang-shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Ziyang-shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| The unit covered the Engage-Study-Activate method and different ways to implement it When teaching students I should take time to effectively develop an ESA lesson plan Unit 3 introduces theories, methods and techniques for teaching English as a foreign language; structuring lessons based...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Puan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yibin Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit introduced me to the theories, methods and techniques. This unit is very important, because it highlights which techniques or methods influence current TEFL practice. I have learned many examples of activities, that can be used during the lessons. It is very important to structure the lesson in a proper way. ESA method is really helpful to structure the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Meidong Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yibin Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Theories,methods, and techniques are very important to learning a language. With theories, we are able to explain and predict the outcome of the theory toward learning. The method and the technique provides a way to learn the language. Nature vs nurture is our core of learning a language without it theories, methods, and techniques will not exists. ...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Akesu-diqu-aksu? Are you interested in teaching English in Akesu-diqu-aksu? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| This unit focused on different theories, methods and techniques for teaching EFL In this unit I have learnt the different types of methods that can be used while teaching English This unit was amazingly impressive to me because my major was about English and not teaching This unit...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Sangsang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Rikaze Shi — Shigatse, Xigaze? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Unit 3 explains in the most detailed form the types of Methods and Techniques that should be used to deliver the lesson. All of this was new to me and will help me in the future as it discussed when each method should be used and the activities that works best with each method, and also during the ESA process. Unit 3 explains in the most...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yinlingzhi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jinzhong Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Nowadays, there are hundreds of language learning techniques, the availability of resources and tools to learn languages makes it easier for users to progress faster in their target language. However, for some people it is really hard to spot which one of these methods is the most effective for them. In this essay, I will talk about the most popular language...  [Read more]