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| TEFLtastic with Alex Case Updated : Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:44:39 +0000 Body vocabulary for kids Young learner body vocabulary page just updated with lots of links to stories, games and songs, and suggestions for other stories and songs. Will also be adding more worksheets and writing my next TEFL.net article on the topic as I teach this point for the next month or so, so suggestions very gratefully accepted. Publ.Date : Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:23:04 +0000 An A to Z of Japanese English Part Two- D Only had time for the one letter this time, but more coming next time I’m too uninspired to actually do more than a list, so shouldn’t be long… danball (danboru) – cardboard. Not sure why this is seen as a foreign word as don’t think it actually comes from another language deck (dekki) – plimsolls [...] Publ.Date : Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:54:09 +0000 6 Ways TEFL Certificate Courses Try to Rip You Off – Part 3 Another fab guest piece by “TEFLista” “This is the third installment in a series devoted to TEFL certificate courses and consumer awareness. Part Three looks at some of the employment practices that course providers use to entice people to sign-up for their courses. If you’d prefer to start at the beginning of the series or [...] Publ.Date : Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:28:35 +0000 EL Gazette campaign to save UK TEFL As usual, I can find little to add to what the ever fabulous Melanie Butler has to say here, except that if you think this doesn’t concern you, just think about TEFLers fleeing the UK and further flooding the teaching market wherever you are: “Stop press! : Britain closes to foreign students In a move [...] Publ.Date : Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:20:47 +0000 TEFL, stress and me I rather odd effect that I always experience is that the longer I am in one place or with one class, the more stressed I get. When I arrive somewhere, I have the excuse of not knowing the common errors and other peculiarities of that nationality yet, and I also have the buzz of being [...] Publ.Date : Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:50:14 +0000 The Financial Times on EFL in Brighton Reasonably good read, but as little as I know about ESL/ ESOL in the UK, this sounds like complete crap to me: ‘One is “English as a Foreign Language” (EFL), aimed at people who need a modicum of knowledge to skim specialist journals, trade successfully, chat up foreign women or run successful anti-western marches in [...] Publ.Date : Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:56:01 +0000 TEFL jargon from this month’s ETP They do pretty well in English Teaching Professional with cutting down on jargon and explaining what they do use, but I found a few which I thought could do with some clearing up. Academic word list- A secret list of words that teachers can use while speaking to put a student who thinks they are pretty damn [...] Publ.Date : Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:35:40 +0000 TEFL fever Rationally, you’d have to say that it wasn’t the best of lessons. Mentally/ spiritually, though, I had an increasing feeling that things were somehow coming together and making sense. Couldn’t really put it into words, but Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and words like holistic might finally have made some kind of sense [...] Publ.Date : Sat, 17 Jul 2010 06:46:05 +0000 Some provocative quotes on elicitation from the latest ETP and a nice summary of ELT publishers’ marketing from Darren Elliott at the bottom From “Question-and-answer” by Peter Wells, from English Teaching Professional Issue 69 July 2010: “Prone as students are to ignore their teacher, they’re even more prone to ignore their classmates” page 56 “A class is nothing like an organism, and there is [...] Publ.Date : Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:53:19 +0000 Not just your average TEFL prisoner Unlike Japan, there aren’t a lot of good books about Korea. Unfortunately Brother One Cell, the story of an “English teacher” who got imprisioned for trying to smuggle dope, is a typically unrewarding read- you learn next to nothing about Korea and surprisingly, considering the experience, almost nothing about the human condition. Instead, you get page [...] Publ.Date : Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:00:46 +0000 Why are so many Spanish neurotic about their English? They ain’t the Dutch or Danish, they are probably right when they repeat over and over that they have worse listening comprehension than the Portuguese because most things are dubbed in Spain, and no one is going to outdo the number and ages of Cambridge Proficiency passees in Greece, but the Spanish generally do okay. [...] Publ.Date : Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:21:09 +0000 Give us a job! As people who have been reading recently probably knew even before I did, we’ve decided that a change of scene and job (again) is much easier than actually sorting my life out, so the Case family are moving on at the end of October. We’ll probably make use of the free babysitters (i.e. my in-laws) [...] Publ.Date : Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:03:43 +0000 The Disneyfication of English teaching Literally. The main motivation for setting up official Disney English schools in China is finding a product that isn’t prone to piracy, all parts of all lessons are based on Disney characters, and whatever teaching that leaves for people who are in the room is done by “cast members”. However, as the FT article (free registration needed, [...] Publ.Date : Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:02:52 +0000 L1 in the very young learner classroom L1 in the classroom is always a controversial topic, but with very young learners I think it is much clearer than with other age ranges and levels. Basically, my policy is always that I will only speak the students’ language (assuming I can) if they are upset or there is a very extreme danger or [...] Publ.Date : Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:55:35 +0000 No qualifications or experience needed to just teach conversation It’s true, you don’t need any qualifications or experience to converse, although some people seem to lack that basic communication skill even in their own language. Even for the most chatty of one to one “classes”, though, experience of grading your speech is pretty vital. When it comes to “teaching conversation”, as you might not [...] Publ.Date : Sun, 18 Jul 2010 08:44:15 +0000 The number one most important thing you need to know about teaching very young learners My candidate is “A complete lack of interest the first time you do something is absolutely no predictor of how much they will like it the second, third and one millionth time”, but I’d love to hear other people’s suggestions. Publ.Date : Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:13:56 +0000 New Incredible English and phonics worksheets and flashcards Incredible English 1 is a book for primary aged (false?) beginners and so my accompanying stuff should hopefully be useful to those using other books as well. The new phonics stuff is mainly loads of picture flashcards of things containing the sound of the day. If you can’t work out how to use them, article [...] Publ.Date : Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:16:01 +0000 Request for advice- A mixed everything trial class! “Hi Alex, I came across your website and it has fantastic resources! I am, however, looking for something really simple and wondered what you would suggest. We are in Mexico City and work with teams from the US to do community transformation. We work with churches to identify needs and train them in meeting the [...] Publ.Date : Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:56:45 +0000 The Good Enough Teacher? Like a parent, there is always more a teacher could do and always the worry that you are not doing enough. For that reason, although the idea of adapting the ideas of the Good Enough Parent to teaching was something that came to me slowly, a quick bit of googling reveals that I am by [...] Publ.Date : Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:26:13 +0000 The TEFL Why Oh Why series I’m thinking of continuing my series of articles based on the conversational strategies of young kids (continually asking why), so have listed the ones so far here to remind myself and get some feedback before I start on the next one: Why did my foolproof activity just fail with that class? Why your students overuse their [...] Publ.Date : Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:44:39 +0000 |
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TESOL Certification for teaching english abroad in non-native English speaking countries.
