Remembering Student Names is important in building up a good relationship with your students. If you know their names and use them it makes you more approachable. Over time you will remember their names, but it’s important to try and get them off pat as soon as you can. With […]
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This is an interesting way to keep order in a classroom. Basically you find out from your Director of Studies what the usual punishment in the school is be it detention, lines, expulsion from the class, calling parents, etc. Next, prepare a couple of cards: one yellow and one red. […]
Continue ReadingRecasting & Uptake in TEFL Teaching
Recasting is a form of error correction from a teacher to a student; uptake is how the student reacts to this. Basically, recasting is when the teacher repeats what the student says but in correct English. Uptake is when the student hears the correction and repeats the phrase. This is […]
Continue ReadingQualifications for EFL/ESOL Students
Qualifications for Students indicate how well a person knows English. NB For qualifications in order to teach, see Essential Qualifications to Teach English. There is no single, standardized qualification system showing how well a person can use English, however over the years a number of qualifications have risen in popularity […]
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Production, in TEFL terms, is simply producing language; in other words, speaking or writing. It is taking the raw material (language) and forming it into coherent utterances and sentences for others to hear or read. Language learning often follows this pattern: INPUT > COMPREHENSION > PRODUCTION In general terms, the […]
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