TEFL in China

By knowing and being a able to distinguesh between the different theories, methods and techniques the teacher will be able to guide his class and prepare him/her self properly for the lesson. It is im

It has helped me to find out ways to identify what level the student is at in order to effectively teach them. It also has advised me on which tests they should be taking in order to see their develop

Unit 4 is dedicated to the usage of Present Tenses such as Present Simple, Present Continuous,Present Perfect, and Present Perfect Continuous. They have positive, negative, question forms. Each tenses

In this unit, it focuses on common situations teachers may encounter and how to treat those problems. For example, for the first lesson with students, teachers shouldn't use the course book to teach b

Vocabulary is very important to the students ,especially at the early stages when students are motivated to learn the basic words they need to get by in the language . In this unit I learnt that how e

This unit explains in detail the various forms of how a sentence is structured in the English language. Based on the information from this unit, I learned the specific terminology of each word in the

Previous to this unit, I had not considered how different seating arrangements or groupings may effect the students ability to learn. I had also not considered that the overall atmosphere of the schoo

This unit examine the qualities , roles and responsibilities of both a teacher and students in a classroom . It goes further to give some characteristics of a good teacher such as ; .A good teacher s

I've refreshed past tenses in my memory. It was useful to repeat grammatical rules for proper usage of these tenses. I've also got a perspective on past tenses in general, realizing how important the

This module was slightly confusing and took a while for me to get my head around. However i have learnt about the key points to teach students when learning new vocabulary and grammar. Furthermore th

This unit describes the possibility of having to teach English to Business students. It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of this type of lesson and gives good examples of activities that co

this was another fairly different unit. so many grammar rules become second nature and we dont stop to think of why we say things the way we say them. This unit goes over some fairly common mistakes w

Coming to an end, this Unit reviews and clarifies many aspects that we all deal with: problem situations or better, real life people facing a new activity in their lifes. That's why troubleshooting ta

Unit 20 briefly addresses some basic troubleshooting methods for new teachers. This unit provides suggestions about how to tackle the first lesson by building rapport along with how to use warmers to

I learned, in this lesson, the proper approaches to teaching an English foreign language class. By following the tefl methods and theories presented in this lesson I now have greater understanding of

From this unit, I have learned in details and well how to make a perfect lesson plan, why planning is important and why teachers need to plan their lessons. So, after learning this unit, I feel I know

As a follow-up to Unit 11, Unit 12 teaches productive skills, namely speaking and writing. The unit differentiates the objectives of the activities employed in teaching these skills, by those that foc

Many learners of English language don't have the opportunity to live in an English speaking environment while studying. This is a disadvantage in the way that, the contact with the language may be jus

In unit 14 I have learned about coursebooks and lesson materials. Authentic materials are what we normally would see and hear, like a newspaper article, menu or a radio show, while creative materials

Completing this unit helped me to acquire a better-structured view of teaching-learning English as a new language, built on the three main components: vocabulary, grammar and functions. In this perspe

Unit 1 Teachers and Learners is the basic fundamental topic on how to understand the behavior of teacher and students in the class. Being aware of the role of a teacher and how to demonstrate each rol

In this unit I learned about teaching beginners, individuals, children, and business people. I am considering teaching multilingual classes, so it was interesting to read about how they are different

This unit detailed the most difficult of the tenses in English, Future. Like past tense, this tense does not easily translate from Asian languages, and so students have trouble with it. I'm glad to

This unit included the uses of past tense in grammar. I found this to be very useful as well as a good refresher on this area of English. It was also helpful be shown the irregular verbs as English of

I have gained much more from this course than I initially expected to. The course has gone into a lot more depth than I thought it would, and has comprehensively covered all aspects of EFL teaching. I

Unit 19 discusses special groups that TEFL teachers may teach. The first group to be discussed was beginners. There are actually 5 different types of beginners. Learning about the different types of b

Over the course of this unit I had the opportunity to learn a good deal about adverbs, articles, as well as the various verb forms. In regards to the first, I was able to learn about the various types

In the Unit 2 we are getting quick look at some learning and developmental theories. Some of them are based on so to say ?pre-installed? rules of child?s physical development, some on environmental in

Unit 9 Lesson Planning is all about being detailed, organized, and creative in making a lesson plan. Lesson plan is important because it is a basis or a guide for teachers in their daily learning acti

In this unit I have learnt to distinguish between the four aspects of the present tense - present simple, present continuous, present perfect and present perfect continuous - and how to break these do