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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chengdu-shi? 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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| Unit 2 covers learning theories, classroom environments and teaching methods for young learners The second unit, Teaching and learning There are various theories that describe the developmental process of young learners, however the theory of cognitive development varies from those listed...  [Read more]

  In her ninth video diary instalment, Chantelle discusses unit 9 of her online TEFL course from ITTT. This unit covers lesson planning and the importance of being well prepared for your lessons. The unit discusses whether there is a need to plan lessons, how a lesson plan should be written and what should be included in a lesson plan. It also looks at ways to plan a sequence of lessons and how important it is for teachers to reflect on past lessons to help improve future classes. 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...  [Read more]

  When our answers are not correct then, obviously, they need to be corrected but it is quite important that we go through a process of correction that will help students. Quite often they've made a mistake simply because of something like reading the incorrect answer out or misrepresenting what they've actually written down. So, always give the opportunity when a mistake has been made for the student to self-correct first. We can often do this in a nonverbal way to show them that they're not actually correct. We might repeat back what they've said to us in a questioning manner or we may just make a gesture to make sure that they understand that they're not correct. So, we allow for a process of self-correction. It may be that the student has actually got the answer wrong and so we...  [Read more]

  Linda updates us on her progress with ITTT's 120-hour online TEFL course. In the ninth part of her TEFL review video journal, Linda tells us about her progress with units 9 and 10 on the course. As Linda points out these two units are closely related with unit 9 covering lesson planning while unit 10 looks at two very different lessons, one good and one bad, taught by the same teacher. 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 essential section elaborates...  [Read more]

If you want to know what it is really like to take part in one of our courses then take a look at the following selection of graduates discussing their own personal experiences.  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lidu 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. To know about teaching, learning and developmental theories is very important when we are preparing classes and choosing activities to students. It is also essential to understand young learners' needs and skills. There are many differences between kids from 5 to 9 years old and from 9 to 13 and we must be aware of it when in the classroom. How we acquire and learn L1...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dushi 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. Young learners can be divided into two groups. Group one is students aged 5 to 9 years old and group two is students aged 9 to 13 years old. The style and how a lesson should be carried out would be different as the needs and attention span are different. A teacher also got to play multiple roles in a lesson; a facilitator, a counsellor, an instructor or even a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Baiba 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. The unit discusses, four major groups of learning and developmental theories. Maturation theory states we are pre-programmed, a natural sequence of events, regardless of any other stimuli. Environmental theory, states our behavior is a reaction to our surroundings. Constructivism says, we construct our own settings in which learning can take place. The unit also,...  [Read more]

  The idiom "white elephant" refers to an expensive item that is costly to maintain, for example: Shortly after Tanya inherited her aunt's castle, it turned out to be a white elephant she could not afford. The phrase originates from a long time ago when white elephants where regarded as precious and even holy in Asia, especially in Thailand. When the king was displeased with someone, he would gift them a white elephant as the upkeeping would likely ruin them. 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...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dongyue 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. This unit looks at teaching and learning. It identifies the four major groups from which teaching methodologies have been based upon. It then looks at the differences between L1 and L2 and looks at learning versus acquisition. In terms of adopting a teaching approach it is necessary to split the group of 5 to 13 into 2 groups, group 1, 5 to 9 and group 2, 9 to 13....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hujia 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 learned the importance of the two groups of young learners. When teaching a group of 5 to 9 year olds, lessons should be prepared with fun games, activities, less talk time, and more movement. Get the students up and involved in their lesson will ensure students participation and full engagement. When teaching groups of 9 to 13 year olds, the use of...  [Read more]

  We can see that this particular usage of the unfinished past can be used for both the present perfect and the present perfect continuous. Where we've got action verbs, we usually prefer to use the present perfect continuous. However, there are state verbs which don't usually go into the continuous form, such as 'know'. We would say 'I have known her for 10 years,' not 'I have been knowing her for 10 years.' So when we have these state verbs, such as 'know', 'be', 'seem' and 'appear', we would usually put these in the present perfect but with the action verbs, such as 'play', 'cook', 'work', we will use these in the present perfect continuous. Normally, we also use the present perfect continuous fairly frequently with words, such as just or recently to express a recently completed...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Duanjia Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Baoji 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. For many years, English teachers have used the PPP (Presentation, Practice, Production) as the preferred teaching model. However, since 1998, with the book by Jeremy Hamer « How to teach English », a new method has been in use: ESA (Engage, Study, Activate). In this book, the author had elaborated the methodology and in depth the use of these 3 elements in teaching...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wucheng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Linfen 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 my mother was, and still is today a teacher in the USA, she has given me lots of advice about teaching. One of the best things she and I discussed recently, in coalition with my submission of Unit 9 of this ittt course, was with regards to lesson planning. Though she has been teaching for decades, I have still much to learn. For this summative task, I chose to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Baisha 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. The unit factors regarding 'language acquisition' and 'language learning' was interesting, yet there was one challenging question on the test that I was not sure of. I think test questions 3 and 9 were difficult and challenging. I appreciate you providing the names of theorists for each group of thought. The unit factors regarding 'language acquisition' and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tanmu 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 3 Focused on course development, how to test level and students need analysis. It brings a sample of level test for age 9 to 13 and also a sample of needs analysis. It explains some possible limiting factors and how to approach them. I've learned how to design a syllabus on different theories and all the main ways to prepare different types of test, examinations...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shengli 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. In this unit I’ve learnt about 9 roles of the teacher, which are: manager, organizer, assessor, prompter, participant, tutor, facilitator, model and observer; why each role is important and which type of activity a certain role is appropriate and effective. In addition, I have also learnt about different types of learners; how age, motivation, previous learning and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Pingtan 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. The study of general theories of learning and development are appropriate for the proper use and creation of pedagogical approaches. In this unit we focus on the language learning process from infancy to maturation. We find that it is wise to study the L1 and L2 components separately in order to best facilitate students' mastery of the L2 language. This unit also...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Changxi 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 learned that the mains learning and developmental theories are Constructivists, Environmentalists, Maturationists and Other. The First and second Language acquisition are learned differently and need a different approach. The young learner are separate in two groups : 5 - 9 and 9-13 years old. The two different group will need different approach. a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lanting Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shaoxing 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 reinforces how important it is to carefully plan lessons beforehand. This includes having a clear and achievable objective, a lesson plan that fits that objective, and activities that are engaging and relevant. While of course each lesson design has its uses, I believe the boomerang setup will be particularly useful. It provides a clearer outline, helpful...  [Read more]

  In this video TEFL review Cesar from Spain talks about his experiences completing ITTT's TEFL/TESOL online course. He outlines the challenges experienced and the rewards gained from the course. Cesar completed his course taking the tutor support option. 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 various technology or mediums for a teacher to convey information in a classroom. There are a large array of possibilities presented and examples of how...  [Read more]

  The idiom "elbow room" refers to having enough room to move in or having the ability to act freely, for example: The concert was so crowded that there was hardly any elbow room at all. This means, there were so many people at the concert that you could barely move. 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. Conditional and Reported Speech could be two of the most difficult parts for students, even higher level students. Enormous mistakes and errors could be made...  [Read more]

  This TEFL review is from Paavani. She is from Ohio, USA, but just moved to South Korea where she will work as an English teacher. As this will be her first full-time teaching position, she decided to take our online TEFL/TESOL program to get the best possible foundation in teaching before starting her new position. After completing the course, she feels ready and prepared to teach Korean students in her own EFL classroom and she recommends this course to other new teachers. 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...  [Read more]

{ "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ [ ] ] } Acronyms are an essential tool used in all professions and technical writing. They are powerful tools to reduce word content. However without knowing what the acronym stands for, they can form a barrier to understanding. In the ESL (English as a Second Language) teaching world there is certainly no shortage of acronyms. Here we look at a few and one in particular, TEFL. Some useful teaching acronyms are: ELT: English Language Teaching. This is a general term for teaching English and applies to the teaching of English to both native and non-native English speakers. ELL: English Language Learner. This is a general term for anyone learning English and applies to learners of English who are...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Fujia 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. The unit first describes the characteristics of a good teacher which can be summarized as follows: A good teacher is someone that cares about his teaching but cares even more about the learning of the students. The unit then identifies 9 different roles a teacher might have during a lesson. The role the teacher has to adapt mainly depends on the type of activity, the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Baxian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ankang 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. Child development involves the stages of learning and growing that every human goes through. This includes the physical, emotional, intellectual and social changes which set the foundation for a healthy or problematic childhood. For this reason, the early stages of a child's maturation are crucial as it is in this period that a child's experiences can have a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Linba 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. This unite talks about the different ages of our students, also the different learning stages they will be in.. How to plan our lesson according to age. A 5 yr old needs a completly different lesson than a 9 yr old. Also it mention that we might learn the same was as L1 by being fully involved in the language. This is something I agree with, since I myself am learning...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiaojiazhuang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Luliang 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. Learning modes: Young learners vs adults Learning process of humans goes through several stages from early childhood to adulthood and acquiring or learning a language is just one of the abilities we develop. Among other human skills the ability to learn and use language is somewhat special. There is a long-standing debate in psycholinguistics and cognitive...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas As a teacher, I have noticed that students have not only different tempers but also different learning styles and ways of perception. When I hear about 9 bits of intelligence I was really surprised because I assumed that there are only those students who prefer more physical activity, visual learners and those who like to hear things. No, it turns out that this field has been widely studied by Howard Garner, a professor and an author of many books on neuropsychology and brain functioning. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Aija N. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. H. Gardner devised a Multiple Intelligence theory presuming that there are separate human capacities,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Miaozhuang 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. A young English language learner is acting out in my class. Should I punish the child? Will punishment have the desired effect of controlling the child’s behavior? Classroom management in the younger years is more about keeping the children engaged and active rather than punishing for undesirable behavior. Young learners are those learners within the 5 to 13...  [Read more]