Writing Scaffolds

  We are going to move on to the second of the productive skills, which is writing and, again, we'll have look at the background, too, and create a typical lesson for a writing skills session. One of the things to be aware of in a writing skills lesson is that writing tends to be more formal than spoken English. So, there will be some differences between the two, such as writing very often uses less contracted forms and so on, but having said that there are many similarities between the two particular skills. So, many of the considerations that we had for a speaking skills lesson will also apply here to a writing skills lesson. Within writing skills itself there are some sub-skills that we may want to teach and those sub-skills could include, but are not limited to, hand writing...  [Read more]

  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 now what might take place in a typical writing lesson and, again, we're going to use the format of a straight arrow ESA lesson. Our first stage is to the go to the engage stage and, if we think back to what we said before, what we need to do is try to generate interest. So, an example here could be we show a picture first of all taken from a newspaper or magazine and then we can ask the students some questions. From looking at the picture we can ask them if they can tell us what is actually happening now as shown by the picture. Then, we can generate a bit more interest by asking them to give us ideas about what they thought was happening before this picture took place and what happened after. So, here we're just trying to build up the idea of a sequence of...  [Read more]

Yes, TESOL teachers can definitely work in literacy programs. Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) involves teaching English language skills to non-native speakers, which is essential for literacy development. TESOL teachers are trained to work with students of various proficiency levels, including those who are just beginning to learn English and may have limited literacy skills in their native language. In literacy programs, TESOL teachers can play a crucial role in helping students develop their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills in English. They can create and implement lesson plans that focus on phonics, vocabulary, grammar, and reading comprehension to improve students' overall literacy abilities. TESOL teachers are also skilled in providing...  [Read more]

  So, for the study phase what we're going to do is to show them the idea of the cartoon strip. In the cartoon strip what there's going to be are some people with speech bubbles and this is going to represent where dialogue will appear and in the bottom, there are these rectangular boxes, where there will be descriptive things happening. So, it will explain the actual situation that these people are in. So, we get across the idea, first of all, that these are speech and these are for description and we can then show them a blank one of these cartoon strips and try to elicit from our students what could possibly the people be saying and in what actual situation are they in, in order for them to say that. Once we've gone through that, we can move on to our first study activity and in...  [Read more]

When it comes to learning a new language there are four main skills that need to be covered: Reading, writing, speaking, and listening. These four skills are further divided into two areas: Productive skills (writing and speaking) and receptive skills (reading and listening). In any ESL classroom all four skills need to be fully covered to ensure each student has a rounded English ability. It is great if all your students can speak English clearly and confidently, but if they struggle to read or write in English then they will have real problems later on when they need these skills in the workplace, for further study, or when traveling, etc. When learning our native language we first learn to listen to all the language going on around us. For ESL students listening is a vital skill...  [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]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Hengshui, China? Check out our opportunities in Hengshui, 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! I have learned the importance of listening and reading, and now I just learned the importance of speaking and writing. I do feel the same way that writing is the most neglected skill, I sometimes feel...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Russia? Are you interested in teaching English in Nizhnekamsk, Russia? Check out our opportunities in Nizhnekamsk, 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 productive skills: speaking and writing. These two skills should be balanced with reading and listening in each lesson. When speaking and writing, there are two types of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in France? Are you interested in teaching English in Beauvais, France? Check out our opportunities in Beauvais, 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! Again, I appreciate that the four skills (reading, listening, writing, and speaking) were broken up in two sections of reading and listening, and writing and speaking, because they work a little bit...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Venezuela? Are you interested in teaching English in Catia La Mar, Venezuela? Check out our opportunities in Catia La Mar, 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! What I've experienced as a student is that when it comes to writing teachers will always ask you to create stories, that's the most common and useful excercise, of course they'll always...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Chaozhou, China? Check out our opportunities in Chaozhou, 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 talks about teaching the two productive skills -- speaking & writing. Speaking & writing, compared to other two receptive skills of reading & listening, involve output. Thus...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Panama? Are you interested in teaching English in San Miguelito, Panama? Check out our opportunities in San Miguelito, 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! Lesson 16 discusses the importance on focusing on speaking and writing in the classroom. It is important to understand that speaking is broken down into fluency and accuracy, both being...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Mexico? Are you interested in teaching English in Mexicali, Mexico? Check out our opportunities in Mexicali, 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! Similar to the previous unit, this unit is also the basic skills of learning English. Productive skills, speaking and writing are mentioned in this unit. From this unit, we can know the reasons of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Japan? Are you interested in teaching English in Machida, Japan? Check out our opportunities in Machida, 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 is talking about productive skills, i.e. speaking and writing. These are also important for students to learn English. In my opinions, speaking and writing are more difficult for learners...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Baoshan, China? Check out our opportunities in Baoshan, 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 focuses on teaching productive skills, meaning speaking and writing. Although it says that writing and speaking carry equal importance, it is also pointed out that writing, in the classroom, is...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Brazil? Are you interested in teaching English in Americana, Brazil? Check out our opportunities in Americana, 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 touched on teaching productive skills: writing and speaking, both with the main purpose of communication. With regard to the skill of writing, it specifically highlighted the sub-skills...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in India? Are you interested in teaching English in Vizianagaram, India? Check out our opportunities in Vizianagaram, 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! At the end of this unit, I am able to know the types of productive skills: speaking and writing. From my experience, the use of punctuation is very relevant in writing as it ensures smooth flow...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Peru? Are you interested in teaching English in Trujillo, Peru? Check out our opportunities in Trujillo, 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 I learned about speaking and writing skills and the various methods in which to teach them. Both skills are used to accomplish the task of communication but are taught in different ways....  [Read more]

  Regardless of which particular business English setting you find yourself teaching in, there is a typical process that is recommended to go through before you start your course. Watch this video for helpful tips and tricks for anyone who is teaching business English classes. 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 12, teaching productive skills was a very mind opening uni. Not only did this unit take into consideration, such things as...  [Read more]