English For Purpose

Yes, TESOL teachers can certainly teach English for Specific Purposes (ESP). ESP is a specialized branch of English language teaching that focuses on teaching English in a specific context, such as business, tourism, medicine, or law. TESOL teachers who have the necessary qualifications and experience can adapt their teaching methods and materials to meet the specific needs of students who are studying English for a particular purpose. When teaching ESP, TESOL teachers need to have a deep understanding of the language skills and communication strategies required in the specific field. They should be able to tailor their lessons to the vocabulary, grammar, and communication styles relevant to that particular industry or profession. For example, a TESOL teacher who is teaching English for...  [Read more]

  Our next category in our series of teaching special groups in ESL is English for specific purposes. This video focuses specifically on teaching business English. How is business Enligsh different to general English? Will you be able to teach business English? Find out in this video. 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. Unit 9 explains why lesson planning is a great tool to set goals, measure productivity as well as keeping record of what a...  [Read more]

When it comes to teaching English for specific purposes (ESP) through a TESOL course, it is essential to choose a program that offers specialized training in this area. ESP focuses on teaching English tailored to the needs of particular professions or fields, such as business English, medical English, or legal English. One of the best TESOL courses for teaching ESP is the Cambridge TKT (Teaching Knowledge Test) ESP module. This certification is recognized worldwide and provides teachers with the skills and knowledge needed to design effective ESP courses. The TKT ESP module covers topics such as analyzing learners' needs, designing ESP courses, and selecting appropriate materials for ESP classes. Another excellent option is the University of Cambridge's Certificate in Teaching English for...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in India? Are you interested in teaching English in Bellary, India? Check out our opportunities in Bellary, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! When we teach English, We might have to deal with several conditions. For example student’s age, country, purpose etc. Teacher has to know how to put together them and teach appropriately. Teacher can...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Lebanon? Are you interested in teaching English in Beirut, Lebanon? Check out our opportunities in Beirut, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Unit twenty, the final unit of the course, addresses some common problem situations. Teachers should be supportive and encouraging but never lose sight of their basic educational purpose. First...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Australia? Are you interested in teaching English in Toowoomba, Australia? Check out our opportunities in Toowoomba, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Unit 11 talks about reading and listening. From this unit I can learn more about rceptive skills. I can learn about reasons and motives for listening and reading. People can do it for...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Huaying, China? Check out our opportunities in Huaying, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Thus unit taught us how to teach students to retain knowledge and learn through reading and listening skills. It gives different types of real life situations and reasons for using listening and reading...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in India? Are you interested in teaching English in Guruvayur, India? Check out our opportunities in Guruvayur, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Teaching receptive skills is important so that students will know how to study for reading and listening. There are various purposes or tasks for receptive skills and are as follows: predictive for...  [Read more]

  Before looking at specific teaching ideas for the present simple tense, let's first look at some considerations for teaching ideas in general. We have to remember that these activities will be used in the activate stage of your lesson. Here, the focus will be on building fluency and using the language in a bit more of a free-flowing way yet still focusing on that class' language point. We also have to consider the appropriacy for a number of factors: timings. Whether the activity will be too short or too long. We want to look at ages making sure that the activity is appropriate for young learners or adult learners. We also have to take into consideration our language levels. Will the activity be appropriate for our starters or our pre-intermediates or our intermediates? Will the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in France? Are you interested in teaching English in Grenoble, France? Check out our opportunities in Grenoble, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Productive skills are equally as important as receptive skills. You can't really have one without the other. You have to be able to understand the English language in order to speak it and write it....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Yuyao, China? Check out our opportunities in Yuyao, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Speaking and writing are different, but both are used to communicate for the same purpose. Communication is very complex and continues to change. On the other hand, the generalizations we can make are...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Yiyang, China? Check out our opportunities in Yiyang, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! In this Unit we covered content related to the teaching of productive skills. Although the productive skills which are speaking and writing, have some differences, they also have the same ending which is...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Russia? Are you interested in teaching English in Nizhnevartovsk, Russia? Check out our opportunities in Nizhnevartovsk, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This unit focused on receptive skills: reading and listening. These skills carry equal importance and should be incorporated in a lesson, along with productive skills (speaking and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Dali, China? Check out our opportunities in Dali, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! There are four aspects to every language: speaking, listening, writing, and reading. These are called the four basic skills. These four skills can be divided into two categories: productive skills (speaking...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Argentina? Are you interested in teaching English in Quilmes, Argentina? Check out our opportunities in Quilmes, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Evaluating Students are an important part of a teacher to help students to explore their level of English knowledge every time when students have finished the test. Testing is often appropriate...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Russia? Are you interested in teaching English in Yaroslavl, Russia? Check out our opportunities in Yaroslavl, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Evaluating the students is an important part of the teacher's job, therefore testing is a vital part of classroom work for the students and the teacher. Different types of tests serve specific...  [Read more]

  The dynamics of classroom interaction is often dictated by the arrangement of the classroom itself and the way in which the classroom is arranged could depend upon a number of factors and they might include things such as the age of the students, so for example we're unlikely to have the same arrangement for adult learners as we would have for young learners. It could also depend upon the actual physical space available. The physical space may determine how we have to arrange our classroom to maximize the opportunity for interaction and so forth. It will also depend on what material is available and by material in this case we're talking about the actual desks and chairs and so on and so forth. Perhaps the final thing we might put here is that it could also depend upon the...  [Read more]

  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word categorical. This word is used as an adjective and means explicit and direct. It comes from the Greek word kat?goria meaning ‘statement’. 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 how to teach the receptive skills, which are reading and listenin. An integrated lesson will include both the receptive skills and also both of the productive skills (writing and speaking), but...  [Read more]

  Throughout section on the teaching of productive skills and the teaching of receptive skills our activate activities will usually involve some form of game and our final consideration here will be the use of games in the classroom. We can start with a definition of what we actually mean by a game and it basically has three components. A game is an activity that has rules it should have for its purpose in the classroom a teaching point and by nature to the fact that it's a game it should also include an element of fun. So that will be our working definition for a game that we're going to use in the classroom. There are many different types of games and they range between the competitive and those will require cooperation and there are all sorts of games that involve both of these...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Ecuador? Are you interested in teaching English in Esmeraldas, Ecuador? Check out our opportunities in Esmeraldas, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This module covered the various testing methods used by various institutions and the reason and purpose behind each of these tests. Examples are given of the format of a placement tests to show...  [Read more]