What Is Functional Language

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liyang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ningbo 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 7 gives explanation about teaching a new vocabulary, grammar forms and functional language. It reveals the criteria for choosing new words to be taught, gives understanding of what students need to know about new word or grammar structure. It shows what type of activities could be used in Engage, Study and Activate phase of the lesson for teaching new vocabulary,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shilin Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hangzhou 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 demonstrates detailed guides of Past tenses. Each guide provides the functional and structural rules and focuses on giving clear examples and explanations of Past tenses' usage . In addition , it gives us useful ideas about classroom activities to enhance the students' understanding process and prevent them from making mistakes . This unit demonstrates...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gulin Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ningbo 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 very short chapter. As a matter of fact the topic is very simple: vocabulary, grammar and functions. The structures are once again mentioned (as they were in chapter three) but there were interesting parts, as when and what should be taught to students about vocabulary and grammar. the teacher must choose wisely what is important and functional for the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Sankou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hangzhou 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 demonstrates detailed guides of Past tenses. Each guide provides the functional and structural rules and focuses on giving clear examples and explanations of Past tenses' usage . In addition , it gives us useful ideas about classroom activities to enhance the student's learning . This unit demonstrates detailed guides of Past tenses. Each guide provides...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences Just as quarks are the building blocks of atoms and the periodic table of elements, letters are the building blocks of words. And just as the 118 elements are the foundation of our physical life, the 26 letters of the English alphabet are the foundation of the 470 000 words English language (Wikipedia, 2019), so that each word with all its variation and diversity is part of a living and evolving cosmos of vocabulary. Today the English language is one of the most diversified and colorful languages alive and numerous words evolve to enrich this lexicon each year. It is this diversity that allows free and fluent thought in English that is the epitome of native English speakers and it is for this reason the vocabulary forms the basis for English...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tongyu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Weinan 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. Just as quarks are the building blocks of atoms and the periodic table of elements, letters are the building blocks of words. And just as the 118 elements are the foundation of our physical life, the 26 letters of the English alphabet are the foundation of the 470 000 word English language (Wikipedia, 2019), so that each word with all its variation and diversity is...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tianxing 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 is about course development and consist in: - Level testing and needs analysis: - Level testing; - Level descriptions ( Starter, Elementary, Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper-intermediate) - Needs analysis; - Limiting factors: - Employer; - Time constraints; - Resources; - Cultural issues; - Students. - Syllabus design: - The structural syllabus; -...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in SantanghuZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hami Dìqu — Kumul? 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 had the opportunity to review basic English grammar. It has been many years since I thought about specific verb tenses. That being said, it is imperative to remember the importance of being able to effectively teach students how to speak proper, not merely functional, grammar. This is truly the difference between fluency and stagnated...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qingchengshan 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 is an introduction to the training course of teaching English to young learners. This unit is an overview of what the course content consists of, and it also includes the further possibilities on professional development. The teacher must be highly trained and effective in the classroom to such impressionable minds professionalism is key. To develop...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Luchang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Liangshan Yizu 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 devoted to the aspects of both good teachers and good learners. The teacher section both described a variety of important positive traits, emotional and functional, and also described different roles that teachers take throughout class times. I had never really broken down the different roles before and found that eye opening. More novel...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dajiao 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. Is it normal to praise students? Is it normal to praise students? Yes, surely praise is normal in most language lessons. The open questions are: what kinds of praise are there and can they be used more effectively, and can I learn how? It runs all through the course’s study materials (CSM) that praise is normal. But what is ‘normal’ and what is ‘praise’....  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Teaching business English presents teachers with a degree of freedom that is perhaps not enjoyed by those teaching in, for example, State Schools that have curriculums set by the education arm of Government or other international organizations. Some teachers may relish having the opportunity to design their syllabus while for others it may be something rather daunting. Regardless, gaining experience in the field of syllabus design will likely prove invaluable for a teacher in their personal career development. Several considerations are required when designing a syllabus for a course in Business English and these will be discussed throughout this essay along with the methods and resources necessary for their implementation. The essay will address both...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Fangcheng 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. Despite English being included in the Thai public education system, the overall proficiency of English speakers continues to be low in Thailand. There remain several ongoing common problems encountered by Thai English learners. Here we will discuss their public curriculum, general problems faced by Thai learners, solutions for EFL teachers, and why “practical”...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yuanqiao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dezhou 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. About a year and a half ago, I began a part time job teaching English in Japan. The school I taught at, Sunny Club, was a small cram school run in the first level of a two-story home. The physical space could accommodate only 20 students at a time, and it meant that there was very little room to breathe during lessons. While the small size was definitely a hindrance...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Ningbo-shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Ningbo-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 7 reminds me of unit 3 and in a way it acted as a bridge in connecting the "ESA" model with unit 7 and it further elaborates the ESA approaches, such as 'boomerang (Engage -> Activate -> Study -> Activate),' 'straight arrow (Engage -> Study -> Activate)' and 'patchwork...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Sangxi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hanzhong 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’s necessary, first of all, to understand the differences between acquiring a native and foreign languages. The native language is a language the child acquires since being born. The foreign language is one of the variants of the non-native languages. Another variant of a non-native language is the second language. It is admitted the native language as a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wutai 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. Emotion and behaviour - these are things that have been molded through our development during childhood. Child development is about so much more than just the child’s ability and opportunity to learn a language in the classroom. I think about how this topic influences us as educators - aiding us with the knowledge to know better and do better. It’s about discovering...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Maliu 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. Young children require a less formal approach to acquiring the use of the English language. Their acquisition is focused on learning through play. It is similar in some respects to acquiring their first language, through example from the teacher and the repetition of the daily routine. Language skills are learnt through listening before speaking. Therefore it is...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Nanwei Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xianyang 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’s my dream to be a teacher since I was a little girl. It’s so lucky, I became an English teacher after I graduated from school. I like my job, I always prepared a lot before my class, such as materials, flashcards, teaching plan and so on. Because I hope my students will enjoy my class, and gain knowledge through my class. I heard that a good teacher must be...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lingkongshan 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. Songs can be used in language learning by the teacher playing songs for language learners to listen to, distributing song lyrics to learners, and eventually encouraging learners to recreate songs. Songs are useful aids for language learning for three main reasons: they stimulate interest and engagement, they are useful memory aids, and can help learners...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ChenluZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Tongchuan 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 role of a teacher is constantly changing throughout the day. The teacher’s role can be influenced by: the lesson, the students, and the circumstances that might arise during a classroom session. Teachers frequently perform various roles when teaching students, some of these roles include: instructor, facilitator, mentor, psychologist, counselor, and policeman....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Puzhou 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. I arrived in China for the first time, to teach for the first time in a new and foreign land. With this in mind you can understand my situation and why my confidence level was so low at the time. I believe that true confidence in the classroom can be acquired with some time and experience in the classroom when dealing with five to ten year old students at a...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences The introverted Nathaniel struggled immensely through primary, high school, college, and music school. His first battle was learning how to read. At this point, no one knew he possessed a learning difficulty. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Nathaniel F. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Although he had an impressive spoken vocabulary for a boy, when he looked at words on a page he could not match them to their sounds, therefore pronunciation was not possible. This struggle with phonetic decoding was overcome over a few years by reading books borrowed from the library, tracing the words with a finger while listening to the audiobook version until the words were...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences About a year and a half ago, I began a part-time job teaching English in Japan. The school I taught at, Sunny Club, was a small cram school run in the first level of a two-story home. The physical space could accommodate only 20 students at a time, and it meant that there was very little room to breathe during lessons. While the small size was a hindrance at times, working for Sunny Club was one of the most fulfilling experiences that I have had. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate MARY T. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. At Sunny Club, I taught students whose ages ranged from 5 or 6 to 40 years of age. Working with these students taught me about being in teacher in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Geermunongkenyouxian Gongsi? Are you interested in teaching English in Haixi Mengguzu Zangzu 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. Although there are many teaching models for structuring lesson plans, the ESA format created by Jeremy Harmer works as an effective teaching model in EFL classrooms. The “Engage, Study, Activate” format assists in providing a strong and consistent lesson structure, as well as encouraging students to discover and explore...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas With the democratization of English as the go-to business language of the world, it has become ever more common for businesspeople to seek assistance in improving their English competency. A common misconception is that older, more established business leaders will bring forth an easier teaching experience, but nothing can be further from the truth. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Francois B. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. First of all, their ages can vary from in their mid-20s until beyond their late-50s, meaning that there are significant age-gaps between the students. The challenge here is that it may be difficult to choose content that is relatable to all...  [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]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas “The role of grammar is perhaps one of the most controversial issues in language teaching” (Richards and Renandya, 2002, p.145). From the past to the present, there have been so many changes in methodologists’ views on which grammar items should be taught and how to teach them. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Man C. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. In the past, in a traditional classroom, grammatical competence and explicit knowledge of language rules were emphasized. Grammar teaching held such an essential part in language teaching that other aspects became either ignored or downplayed. People assumed that if the grammatical rules of a language were mastered,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Biaojiao 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. The term business English is used to cover the English taught to a wide range of professional people, and students in full-time education preparing for a business career. There’s a lot more to learning a second (or third or fourth!) language than just vocabulary and grammar because languages are used differently in different contexts. Business English is the type...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences Unlike many other countries, India does not have a national language. There are over 30 official languages spoken in India. English has been adopted by the government for judicial and administrative proceedings, and most Indians have a functional understanding of English. However, many Indians struggle to learn and use English effectively. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Tejaswini K. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Native languages influence pronunciations of English syllables/words, e.g. people who speak north Indian languages usually pronounce the word ‘here’ as ‘hare/hair’, people from the east often interchange the /s/ and /sh/ sounds while speaking...  [Read more]