Teach English in Macamic - TEFL Courses

In today's world, there is less need for long, formal written work in the classroom. With the technology that is forever changing and expanding, emails and word processors with spell checkers, the majority of the people do very little written work except for short notes to friends and collegues also rely on this technology to suggest or correct any grammer and vocabulary mistakes automatically. However, students may have very specific needs such as those preparing for the examinations where written work is improtant. Writing allows students sufficient time to process information whereas speaking doesn't. To convey a similar amount of information, a written text is shorter than speaking because the student has time to be more specific. A good thing to remember is that students tend to learn to read and write faster when they have a real reason to communicate. This could be in the form of letter writing to a pen pal, or in a journal. Furthermore, it is a good idea to create certain situations where they will need to write real invitations, requests, thank you notes, morning news, commercials and opinions. As an extension to this, students' can conduct surveys and interviews or make their own books by drawing or cutting out pictures, writing captions to match the picture. It is important to be clear as to the aims of the writing task before the lesson starts. A good starting point is to begin with a fluency activity and only focusing on accurate use of the language at a later stage. Always remember to correct any writing structure, handwriting, spelling, and punctuation and format mistakes. Speaking In the world of speaking, it is important for students learning english to listen to the language first as this will help them to understand how the words are sounded and pronounced. To become a great speaker you will need to be a great listener. Students will need to listen to abundance amount of everyday english through use of various kinds of media: music, lectures, speeches, announcements, news, weather forecast, dialogues, english speaking TV channels etc. What if they listen to these in english, pariticulary spoken by native speakers? Most of them would find it difficult to follow. That's because they are not used to the sounds of english. Therefore, listening comprehension is something we must help them in class, whether it is listening for particular information or listening for gist, is something we need to guide them too. There are some micro-skills involved in speaking that he/she has to: - Pronounce the distinctive sounds of a language clearly enough so that people can distinguish them. This includes making tonal distinctions. - Use stess and rhythmis patterns, and intonatin patterns of the language clearly enough so that people can understand what is said. - Use correct forms of words. This may mean, changes in the tense, case or gender. - Put words together in correct word order. - Use vocabulary appropriately. - Use the register or language variety that is appropriate to the situation and the relationship to the conversation partner. - Make clear to the listener the main sentence constituents, such as subject, verb, object, by whatever means the language uses. - Make the main ideas stand out from supporting ideas or information. While learning a foreign language, learners go through a period of silence and come across a bunch of meaningless sounds. Gradually this sound will turn into a meaningful sound to them. Through proper guidance and regular practice, we can help our learners develop their listening skills and speaking skills for them, as well as being prepared for the world of speaking and writing in english.