Do children have all the advantages when it comes to learning a foreign language? This article looks at the fundamental general differences between language learning amongst adults and children. Talk to any family who have moved abroad with young children and you’ll soon find out that whilst the children have […]
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TEFL Teachers: Appropriate & Inappropriate Touching in School
Touching, has the power to enrich lives but also to ruin them and touching children is a potentially thorny issue and one which can cause difficulties across cultures. This article looks at various aspects of the way in which teachers and children can interact and how this works teaching English […]
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A Teaching Portfolio (sometimes also called a Teaching Dossier or Teaching Profile) is a valuable tool used by TEFL teachers to document who they are, what kind of teacher they are and what they have achieved. It’s also a great tool to help you get that TEFL job! That’s because […]
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TEFL Teaching Methodology looks at the general approaches or methods used to teach English as a foreign language. Over time they have changed and borrowed from research, developed from each other and expanded on previous methodologies. As you will see below, many of these methods overlap and often teachers will […]
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Quite simply, a TEFL Lesson is a set period of time where you – as a TEFL teacher – work with your class in learning English. It is part of the hierarchy of learning English where the yearly syllabus is divided into short periods: English > Syllabus > Lesson > […]
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