Writing Skils

  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 structures and letters.This unit brings me back to those English lessons during primary and secondary. The structure of this unit is simple and concise, which can be easily understood by students. The

Federico Riva TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas The second of the productive skills is writing and here again we'll have a look at the background needed to create a typical lesson for writing skills. One of the things to be aware of in a writing skills lesson is that writing tends to be more formal than spoken English, so there will be some differences between the two. An example is that writing very often uses less contracted forms. On the other hand, there are also many similarities between the two skills. This means many of the considerations that we had for a speaking skills lesson will also apply here to a writing skills lesson. Within writing skills itself there are some sub skills that we may want to teach and those sub skills could include but are not limited to; hand writing, spelling and punctuation. Hand writing tends to be a personal thing but it is very important for our stu

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Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas For this Summative Task, I will be discussing the topic of teaching productive skills in the classroom. As opposed to receptive skills learned previously (reading and listening), productive skills focus on speaking and writing. Regarding writing, this function of language education is often the most neglected in the TEFL world, due firstly, to the fact that teachers and students don't want to monopolize class time with quiet individually driven work. Writing skills are mostly practiced in the form of homework which can often be neglected and completed without necessary focus and effort. Concerning speaking, this function requires a higher deal of language fluency as well as an understanding of the accent and pronunciation of vocabulary. Additionally, speaking does not include a level of foresight and study, since the language used is delivered on the spot. This post was written by our TEFL certification gradua

  In this TEFL review, Athena talks about her experience on ITTT’s online TEFL course. Athena completed the 20 units of the course over a period of 3 weeks. Athena chose to do the online course because she was already working as a teacher and she needed to be able to fit her studying around her job. 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 was about productive skills which are speaking and writing. I learned about guidelines for teaching and activities for both speaking and writing. I learned reasons why students are reluctant to speak as well as problems that come up for writing a new language. I practiced understanding how to crea

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas “Language is any form of sound or sign a living being can produce to convey some form of meaning to another living being”, that being said Business Language can be defined or explained differently. “Business Language is the commodity that is being bought and sold in our daily lives, the exchange of goods and currency takes place to just add weight to said Business Language” and as English is the most spoken language in the world, it also makes English the universal Business Language. As any language Business English also consists of four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. ESA grouped listening and reading skills as receptive skills; and speaking and writing as productive skill, however Business English has to group the skills based on verbal (i.e. listening and speaking) and textual (i.e. reading and writing) because of the similarities in requirements. Also read: Top Mistakes to Avoid i

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas In the process of building a strong foundation for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), there are many items to consider. Some of these include parts of speech, theories and methodologies, tenses, lesson planning, and testing. One of the most important parts of this process is teaching productive skills, including speaking and writing, to students of all age groups. While the lesson planning for speaking and writing will be different, they are both used for the primary purpose of communication. When people are communicating with each other, they want to be able to say something through proper communication. They also want to listen and be able to hear what is being said. Productive skills can have immediate gratification but also be very time-consuming. Accuracy and fluency are both very important when teaching speaking and writing skills. This is why the teacher will need to bring the desi

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas For students to be able to communicate effectively, they need to be proficient in the four language skills. Productive skills are known SPEAKING and READING, then you have your receptive skills known as READING and LISTENING. All four language skills are of importance and should be combined during lessons as they are all of importance to teach students to communicate with others. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Natalie B. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. If a student or a student comes to a language teacher, it means he/she has a clear goal to be excellent in productive skills. he/she undoubtedly wants to be perfect in either speaking or writing or in both, speaking and writing. Also Read: What is the EPIK program for teaching English in South Korea? Speaking is a tool for communication, where reading is a learning skill.

  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word nepotism. This word refers to people in power favoring and giving powerful positions to friends or family. Some synonyms of the word include favoritism, bias, partiality, or partisanship. 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 is basically about productive skills which are Speaking and writing, and the purpose of speaking and writing which is for communication. learnt the guideline for a creative speaking activity such as Give simple and clear instructions.Ensure students have enough preparation time for the activity. Choose a topic that will motivate the students.This lesson ad

Mark Crocker Teaching Ideas Image by Alice Bolden via Writix Of all the language skills that are taught in the ESL classroom, teaching writing skills is often seen as one of the least popular. Some teachers consider these lessons to be a bit boring, hard to evaluate and somewhat limited in what you can incorporate into them. However, this doesn’t have to be the case as teaching writing skills to your ESL students can actually be interesting, fun and productive. Take a look at these ideas for spicing up your English writing skills lessons. One of the most common reasons why writing lessons are sometimes seen as boring is that many teachers stick to a traditional approach that rigidly focuses on structure, grammar, and punctuation. While these are an important part of the writing process, if you want to engage your students and make your classes more interesting, you should consider mixing things up a bit. Here are a few great writing activit

  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word thorough. This word is used as an adjective and means being careful about detail. The word comes from the Middle English word thorow, which came from the Old English thurh. 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. There are so many ways to keep lessons interesting and to use many different forms of activities in teaching. This keeps excitement and interest in the students as well as the teacher. Variety is as important for the teachers as it is for the students so that nothing goes stagnant. The best way to develop skills is to use them in many different forms.It good for me to learn the i

  Greg took the 120-hour online TESOL course with ITTT to improve his teaching abilities. In his TESOL review video, Greg introduces us to some of his English students from all over Latin America and shows us some of the resources he is using in his lessons. Greg and his students seem very happy to be teaching and learning English together. 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. In this unit I was able to review the basic parts of speech and what each one means including, nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, articles, gerunds etc.. This will greatly help me to explain to my students how the English language works and how its put togeth

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences For this task, I have selected Korea as a choice for some students having difficulty learning. Korea is one of the countries investing a lot in the field of English education. Also, results achieved by Korean students on the TOEFL test improved by 10 points over the past six years. However, there still seems to be less proficient skills in writing and speaking in English. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Heejeong K. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. When I taught teenage students in Korea, I watched them being reluctant or struggling to speak and write in English even though they had more than average scores in reading and listening tests. I think this problem has been caused by the system solely being focused on grammar and memorizing vocabulary in order to achieve high test scores in these areas and potentially do well

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas The productive skills, in my definition, are skills that require the students to articulate or produce words, sounds, speeches, or sentences either in written or typed form. The productive skills are speaking and writing. The productive skills are essential and are needed for communicative purposes in our day to day activities. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Taiwo B. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Other skills are being taught in the English language, which is reading and listening (receptive skills). However, while these other skills are important, the most important of them are productive skills, particularly speaking skill. This is because for effective communication and understanding to occur between individuals, they must be able to speak a common language. On the contrary, most schools at the primary and secondary

  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word "bunkum". This word is a noun and refers to foolish talk or nonsense. The word came into existence after a representative for Buncombe County, North Carolina, held a speech on an irrelevant subject in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1820. Soon after, the word "bunkum" became known as a synonym for nonsense. 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 lesson gave good details on how to help the students with their speaking and writing. The lesson gave very nice suggestions on how to encourage the students to speak and not feel ashamed. It also encouraged the use of games in class. I thi

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas In this course, I learned so many new and helpful things about teaching, grammar, teaching methods, students, groups, ESA methods, lesson planning, games, etc. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Teodora R. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. I also learned about teaching skills and which part of them we can say that they are important. We can say that there are many positions we can call teaching, professors, tutors, and teachers. But let’s talk about actual skills. I can say that there are two types of teaching skills, but they are both equally important. What can I say about receptive skills is that they are a very important part of teaching. 2 basic types are: reading and listening. Students always have problems with reading and listening so the teacher should always try their best to keep students focus and encourage them

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas The process of learning a new language is complex and time-consuming. As the demand for learning a new language increases or rather the process of learning the primary language in a given society is taken into consideration, methods to teach become variable, as the most optimal way of learning is sought after. This does not always result most efficiently, however. For this very reason, certain factors must be taken into consideration when evaluating the way a language is learned since the easiest way is not always the best way. The concept of a language is very detailed, meaning that because of this it is commonly very confusing, but if dialed up to the top of the branches one can see that there are two main variants that are involved in the language learning process: an active and a passive form, which equally carries the utmost importance. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Hasan K. Ple

  In this ITTT TESOL review video Stratton talks about his TEFL experience in Phuket, Thailand. He talks about some of the course content including grammar, phonology and Thai culture and traditions. He also talks about the many advantages of doing the course, meeting new people and experiencing new adventures. 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. During this lesson, I have learned the productive skills of speaking and writing. I have learned that during speaking, it is important to focus on accuracy and flunency. Both of the components are important, but I have learned which one to focus on during each of the stages. I have also learned that d

  In his TESOL course review video Wenming tells us about his experience taking the 120-hour online TESOL course with tutor support and videos from ITTT. Wenming felt he learned a lot while studying his course and he was most impressed by the lesson planning task at the end of the course. Although his first attempt at the final lesson planning task was not successful he took on board the detailed feedback he received and his second attempt was successful. 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 was about teaching productive skills. For students to be motivated to improve speaking and writing skills the teacher should create the need to co

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences Productivity could be described as what someone or something creates or in other words produces. In the world of education, and reference to students, most tangible progress can be seen and heard through two specific means of production, the productive skills of speaking and writing. However, it is important to ask, how important are these productive skills? From the perspective of the teacher, they must understand that in the instances that individuals wish to converse with one another there is a cause, they have a purpose, a need to say something, a need to listen to something, or they are interested in what is being said. (ITTT, 2011) When a teacher can understand this, they can conjure and create a meaningful reason for a student to want to communicate. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Devaughnte H. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or o