Tefl Course Description

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Baimao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Linyi 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. When teaching a lesson the students should be involved as much as possible. An extremely useful technique to encourage students to respond during a lesson is elicitation or asking thought-provoking questions. Elicitation gives students more time to talk and reduces teacher talk time. This is an important part of the ESA or Engage, study, and activate method of teaching...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hubin Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Binzhou 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 very important for the teachers to adopt as many ways as possible to let students to practice English in class. I believe the success of this teaching strategy is due mainly to the fact that the learners can choose what they want to read, listen to, watch, and talk about in class. Personally , I suggest and have tried the following ways to do the practice. Free...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Malantun Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zaozhuang 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 the next year I’ll be working as an English Teaching Assistant in Zadar, Croatia on a Fulbright grant where I’ll be working with university level students as well as with middle school students. I’ll be hosting workshops for the middle school students on life and culture in America. I hope to utilize storytelling activities to both engage the class and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Boli 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. There are many types of teachers in the world of ESL. This also means that there are many various types of teaching styles. Although, some teachers tend to lean on their most comfortable style, it’s important to remember your students personalities and the way they take in the information. Over the past 17 year of teaching ESL in Japan, I’ve had the chance to focus...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tongji Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chengdu 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. Unit 1 gives a description of each unit of this course; outlines the aims and objectives of this course. Besides, it defines 'a young learner' as someone within 5-13 age range. Moreover, Unit 1 pin points career prospects for EFL and ESL teachers giving information on places of employment, salary and working hours. Unit 1 gives a description of each unit of this...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in SanhehuZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Binzhou 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 1945, globalization boomed and developing countries in Europe and Africa were quickly realizing that to become technologically advanced, English was the language to pursue as it was establishing itself as the international technological language. The first textbook to be published with the purpose of educating students in a specified field of English was The...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Mihe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Weifang 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. What is it like to teach beginners of the English language? When I was 20 years old, I left my native United States with a wish to travel around the world. As a relatively poor boy of working class means, I bought myself a one way ticket to Amsterdam, as that was the cheapest ticket I could find at the time. I arrived with only ten dollars, no contacts, and very little...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hanwang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Deyang 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 was a rather lengthy session on course structure in terms of syllabus, level testing, needs analysis, an overview of different types of tests and their uses, a description of common ranking systems for fluency and ideas of how to use your resources and teaching environment along with the progress your students are making to modify your syllabus. This was a...  [Read more]

  So let's take an example of what those drills might involve. So here is an example of a repetition drill. I will model the language and then my class will repeat after me. So "This is a cup." "Spoon" ? "This is a spoon." "Knife" - "his is a knife." Thank you. The reason that it's called or also called the army method is that it was the method adopted by the United States military who had personnel stationed around the world at the end of Second World War and they realized that they needed those personnel to pick up the language very quickly and one of the positive things about this particular methodology is that you do very quickly learn vocabulary. Another positive thing about it is that you quickly learn the correct pronunciation of that vocabulary. However, there are some...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas In 1945, globalization boomed and developing countries in Europe and Africa were quickly realizing that to become technologically advanced, English was the language to pursue as it was establishing itself as the international technological language. The first textbook to be published to educate students in a specified field of English was The Structure of Technical English (Herbert, 1965), which opened the door to the development of textbooks based on register analysis. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Nicholas P. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Strevens (1997) described the phenomenon of teaching Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) as fundamentally dependent on the...  [Read more]

  In this TESOL review video, Munki tells us about his experience studying with ITTT. Munki found the course to be an interesting and enriching experience. One of the main things Munki learnt from the course was the ESA methodology that he was able to implement in his own class while taking the course. His students really benefited from his new knowledge and also enjoyed the class. The course also helped Munki to better manage his classes and understand how to deal with difficult students. 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...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shiyang 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. This was the most interesting and useful unit so far and exactly what I was hoping for in this TEFL course. It gave specific theories of teaching with the best theory to use as a new teacher. I liked learning about the various theories, especially the expanded description of ESA. I also like the game ideas. I will immediately start using the ESA theory in my classes ...  [Read more]

  In this TEFL review video Scott form the USA discusses his experience on the in-class TEFL course in Prague. In addition to its online courses, ITTT offers in-class TEFL/TESOL course at training centers all over the world. 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 covers Modal verbs, Phrasal verbs and Passive Voice. It gives a detailed description of different types of these grammar structures, their usages, most common students' mistakes and areas of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hongchuan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Meishan 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. Dear Sir, Madam in this unit it was nice to refresh my knowledge of general roles of a class teacher and learners. the description of English Learner s levels is also useful. Yours faithfully Tanya Akkaya Dear Sir, Madam in this unit it was nice to refresh my knowledge of general roles of a class teacher and learners. the description of English Learner s levels...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xinmin 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. The list and description of theories and methods were comprehensive and provides a large variety of teaching styles. The amount of examples provided in the Engage, Study, Activate section was particularly helpful and I expect to revisit these sections later when lesson planning. The list and description of theories and methods were comprehensive and provides a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Fankuai Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dazhou 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 unit I have learnt the description and stages of learning and developmental theories. These are really explanatory and educational. The explanations of second language acquisition gave me an idea. I have understood the differences between a methodology for group 1 and a methodology for group 2. I learnt the environment of classroom setting. In this unit I...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yitunbulake Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Bayinguoleng Menggu Zizhizhou —? 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 was very insightful but challenging, there is a lot of information to absorb and I feel unready to begin teaching these lessons myself. I struggled to understand the description of the Present Continuous Form, I feel it could be defined more clearly, but looking at the examples I then understood its meaning. This unit was very...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Riwu 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 is about teaching methodology. It introduces some of the most common methods and techniques in EFL, with a brief description of these. Then, the ESA method is presented as one of the most effective to be applied in the classroom and as the method on which this TEFL course will focus on. ‘ESA’ stands for Engage, Study and Activate and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Acha Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ganzi Zangzu Zizhizhou — Garze? 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 helps us understand the importance of the materials used in a classroom, as well as detailing various ways to utilise these materials effectively when planning a lesson. This unit explores the types of materials that can be used in a classroom such as worksheets, communicative activity sheets , visual aid , audio aid, real objects ,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jinshijing Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Leshan 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 was an introduction to a proffecion of a teacher. In general now it’s more clear about the difference of teaching different age students. I liked a description about plenty of roles a teacher can do, and the exact occasions for these roles. Also a useful thing is a notice about what a good teacher should do, and what he shouldn’t; which actions can...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qushan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhoushan 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 gives an overview of the different types of future tenses along with several examples of use. Each tense is further discussed in detail with description of form, usage, teaching ideas and common student mistakes or errors. The chapter also revises present simple and present continuous with connotation to future meaning. This provides a clarity on when to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xinqiao 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. The list and description of theories and methods were comprehensive and provides a large variety of teaching styles. The amount of examples provided in the Engage, Study, Activate section was particularly helpful and I expect to revisit these sections later when lesson planning. Apart from that, the breakdown of Boomerang and Patchwork Engage, Study, Activate lessons...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qinglong Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dazhou 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 unite I learned many ways to develop a course for young learner, and students levels ( starter, elementary, pre-intermediate, intermediate and upper-intermediate)and it's descriptions and what the students needs are , and the most important thing is that I got a good ideas about syllabus design and what type tests and examinations In this unite I learned...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qingquan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Mianyang 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 made very clear the qualities of a teacher and a learner. Divided teachers by their roles in the class with an efficient explanation of each role. Divided learners and specified the differences between young learners and adults. Explained difficulties that the teacher could have in any case depending on the age, the origin e.t.c. Stated the levels from...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hongling Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dazhou 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. Unit two of this specialized course addresses a wide range of material. Beginning with a summary of the principal general theories of development and learning, the unit moves on to considering how one learns a language, comparing and contrasting the learning of L1 and L2. The pro's and con's of various learning environment arrangements are addressed. An analysis of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Menghai Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xishuangbanna Daizu Zizhizhou? 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 6 gives description of Past Tences group. It shows formation of affirmative, negative and interrogave forms  of Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous Tences. Also it reveals the usage of above mentioned tences and the most common mistakes student make. It gives understanding what type of activities teacher...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas Although courses may vary in length, subject matter, level, or approach, a systematic process, a syllabus is essential to plan and structure a course to achieve instructional goals effectively. Teachers will need to design, modify, revise or evaluate a syllabus or rethink and re-examine their syllabi throughout their career. Being a systematic process, syllabus design follows a set of steps and requirements, as outlined in the following paragraphs. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Soundous D. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Before starting the syllabus design, teachers need to collect some information to help them in this process....  [Read more]

  In this video Linda breaks down the difference between ?aloud? and ?allowed?. 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 covered the topic of productive skills. These skills are speaking and writing. Speaking English correctly and fluently is the ultimate goal of the students, and both accuracy and fluency are important. One cannot be taught exclusively. Writing can be a more difficult task, for some languages had completly different writing...  [Read more]

  Marcelo completed the 120-hour online TEFL certificate course with ITTT. In this TEFL review video he describes how the course is great for those who need to fit studying in around their schedule and how the materials he received are still useful to him in his teaching career. 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 covers the past tenses-- which include past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous. This unit also mentions...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Fuxing Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Suining 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. Unit 2 Grammar/Parts of Speech gave a general overview of basic grammar rules and description for English teachers. Although most of this unit was a review for me, I did find it useful to re-read all the rules and review some of the particular contexts and usages of the different parts of speech. For example, reviewing some of the usage rules of adverbs and their...  [Read more]