The “skills” in English language teaching are: reading, writing, listening and speaking. These are sometimes broken down into sub-skills.
Each one requires a different approach, different exercises and activities, and different assessment. Some students will have a bias towards one or more skills and in a very general way, some nationalities will also. This depends on how they have been previously taught as well as how their mother-tongue compares to English.
The articles here look at the different skills in TEFL and how you can deal with them as a TEFL teacher.
Study Skills are those skills useful for students at university, college, and suchlike to increase their ability to study and pass exams. They range from organizing and retaining information to understanding assessments; from effective reading to concentration techniques; from examination taking techniques to time management. With EFL/ESL students who want […]
Speaking is one of the four main language skills. In general it is the second skill to be acquired after listening. Later comes reading and writing. There are many areas to speaking and this article looks at the main concerns you, as a teacher, should have here. General Ideas about […]
Reading is one of the four main language skills along with writing, listening and speaking. There are various considerations when you use a text in class. There is the matter firstly of choosing the right text and then of how you present it to the class. Finally, what happens when […]
Think of the way most EFL students read. In classrooms across the world they pick up English books in order to study them. After students have read a text they know that the next step is likely to be them being tested on the meaning of various words, some grammatical […]
Reading Comprehension is one of the basic lessons often given by TEFL teachers. It simply consists of presenting a class with a text, have them read and analyse it, then check for understanding. There may be a few follow up activities based on the subject. This article looks at simple, […]
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