Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Michigan? Are you interested in teaching English in Frankenmuth, Michigan? Check out our opportunities in Frankenmuth, 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!
The main reason for my taking this course is due to my lack in grammatical knowledge. Grammar is by far the part of teaching I fear the most. I grew up in a home speaking two languages fluently. I remember in my own school days, a foreign student asking me what a rule was or why something was the way it is, and I couldn’t answer her – because I simply knew what I had been taught to say. Now again, working in Korea, I find Korean teachers occasionally also asking me questions I can’t answer. As a teacher I don’t mind being asked a question I don’t know the answer to (I can’t know everything), but as an English teacher I always fear being asked a grammar question I can’t answer – I don’t want them to lose their confidence in me.
In this unit, I really appreciated that everything was introduced from the absolute basics. There is so much I need to learn and retain, and it reminds me of the pressure my students are under, but equips me to help them and become a better teacher myself.
When I hear the words parts of speech, I cringe. But as I read through the materials I found myself amazed at how I knew many rules without knowing how. Although, I also came to understand that I write the same way I speak, which is often not grammatically correct, as I tend to speak as I do in my South African dialect rather than formal English. This has encouraged me to improve my English!
I have just been teaching Comparatives, and was delighted to now learn from this unit how to explain when to use the word more. I was also aware of verbs that were not simply actions, and couldn’t identify what they were. But thanks to this unit, I not only discovered state verbs, but also now understand transitive, intransitive and auxiliary verbs. I am battling with verb forms as I don’t understand how to define which is which. Although continually checking myself, I am slowly picking up on all the areas I need to relearn or remind myself.
