Tesol Quarterly Editorial Board

  One of the major ideas here when writing on the board, is that we need to be aware that whenever we're using the board to write down information, we should not be talking and whenever we are talking we should not be writing on the board. This will inevitably lead to what's known as dead time when nothing is being said as we're putting information on the board. This dead time is not a problem but we can actually minimize it by using a number of techniques. We could use pre-prepared material. So we put information onto large pieces of paper and then instead of writing on the board, we actually stick those materials onto the board as we go through the class. Another idea is to actually ask students to write on the board for you. Another thing is that we could actually put work up...  [Read more]

  So let's have a look at some of the more general issues when using the wipe board. Perhaps the most important thing to start with is that we should start with a clean board. Secondly it's always very useful to make a board plan so that you know where things are going to appear on the board by the end of your lesson. It?s very simple to do a board plan. Just take a sheet of paper, which is similar in shape to the board that you're going to use, and then onto that piece of paper decide where all the information that's going onto your board is going to be by the time that you've finished. So a very simple board plan just to show where the information is going to be. Also it's very useful if you make use of tables and columns to separate different areas of your work and in the same...  [Read more]

  The first part of my study phase is going to be the board work and I'm going to use the information that I generated in the elicitation part of my engage phase to move on to the actual board work. What I'm going to do is to show the structure of this particular tense. So, the phase study I'm expecting to take about ten minutes on this particular part and, again, the interaction will mainly be the students talking to me. So, how am I going to achieve that with this information? Well, we could ask the students to have a look at the sentences themselves and to tell us what they can see. If we look at each of the first words in here, then at this level, I should hopefully be able to elicit from my students what each of these words have in common and they may well give an answer that...  [Read more]

  There's another activity for comparing and contrasting the tenses focusing here in this activity on the present perfect and the present perfect continuous. So in the activity, students will start at the start and roll a die. Perhaps they can roll a 5. They will read 'something you've been learning for a long time'. The appropriate sentence may be 'I've been learning English for a long time.' The next student may go and roll 4. They read 'a beautiful place you've visited.' Then, rather than the present perfect continuous, they would use the present perfect tense: 'I visited Paris.' You can encourage students to even ask follow-up questions, which would also include other tenses: 'What was so beautiful about Paris?' Now, this activity will be particularly good for your more...  [Read more]

  There are some other classroom management issues that we need to consider and they may include issues such as writing on the board, giving students individual attention, the use of teacher talk time, the way in which we should give instructions to our students, the building and maintaining of rapport with our students, and finally the one that perhaps most new teachers particularly spend a lot of time worrying and thinking about, is the issue of classroom discipline. So what we'd like to do is to take each of these in turn and look at some of the major issues surrounding these classroom management issues. 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...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yimen Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xinzhou 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 proper use of various resources in the classroom can make teaching interesting and fun; and learning more effective. There are many resources that are likely to grab and keep the attention of students rather than sitting and reading from one form of hard copy during entire class session/s. Some of the resources that are helpful in the classroom are: black/white...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shiqiaozi 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. Our world is quickly changing all the time and especially recent times. Modern technologies are a part of our everyday life and even more children can't imagine this world without gadgets. Our generation saw the world without digital technologies, and we have an opportunity to compare it “before” and “after”. But children see all new modern technologies...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Mashan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jinan 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. Teaching aids in the classroom are an important part of a student learning abilities. It is important because they create a visual and interactive experience for the students in the classroom . Teaching aids and equipment can also be used to make lessons more interesting to the students. To help with the students in the class we use equipment such as the white/black...  [Read more]

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ITTT has recently opened a TEFL & TESOL training center in Columbus Ohio. If you wish to be TEFL/TESOL-certified and would love to take a course in Columbus Ohio, this is an opportunity you cannot miss. Check out course details and fees for ITTT's Columbus Ohio. TEFL/TESOL center here! Check out Tesolcourse.com about TEFL Marysville Ohio and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: Games play an important role in teaching english. They are encouraging, motivating and enjoyable part of the learning process. It makes the whole learning process more fun. Almost any game can be adapted for learning purposes....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhua 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. Teaching is a creative enterprise and creating your own materials is very satisfying. There are many positive reasons for a teacher to create their own materials. Purposely created materials are inexpensive, tailored to specific grammar and language topics, adaptable for different language levels, specific expansions on the course resources, culturally sensitive and...  [Read more]

Check out Tesolcourse.com about TEFL Hezhou and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: O.S. - Russia said: Games play an important role in teaching english. They are encouraging, motivating and enjoyable part of the learning process. It makes the whole learning process more fun. Almost any game can be adapted for learning purposes. For example, “Pictionary”, can give students an opportunity to revise their passive vocabulary, learn new words. “Twister” can help to learn different colors and parts of body, etc. It’s so much easier to learn new material playing games. There are different types of games that...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gaoqiao 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. English language is the most speaking language after French language. This language is easy to grasp with lot of practice. Many EFL teachers use many ways to teach british language to native and non-native english speakers. Teachers use many ways and aids to teach it. There are many different ways in which a trainer can make the learning experience more interesting...  [Read more]

Check out Tesolcourse.com about TESOL Certification Orange United States and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: There is a great variety of Teaching equipment. they include; 1) white board or black board; all classrooms have some kind of board or flip-chart. keep in mind that start with a clean board There is a great variety of Teaching equipment. they include; 1) white board or black board; all classrooms have some kind of board or flip-chart. keep in mind that start with a clean board  [Read more]

Jon ITTT TEFL Information Teaching Ideas Unless you are working in some really impoverished regions of the world, the chances are you will have access to some form of classroom technology. This may be as basic as a chalkboard and tape player or as advanced as a class of children with tablets that connect to an interactive whiteboard. In this article I look at some of the most common forms of technology that you are likely to encounter in the TEFL classroom. Interactive whiteboards or IWBs are large touch sensitive boards that can be used both as a traditional whiteboard and a large computer screen. They enable you to connect your computer or the computers of the students to the whiteboard in order to show images, video, access the internet etc. Also read: The Benefits and Risks of New...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xinglong 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. First I would like to start by saying that I´m a non-native speaker ESL Teacher. I have studied English as a second language since I was in grammar school, and at 19 years old I took a 120 hour local Teaching Training Course. I have taken several English courses since then, and even lived in Philadelphia, USA for one year and in London, UK for 6 months in order...  [Read more]

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