Fernando is originally from Buenos Aires but spent the past 12 years working in the United States. As he has now returned to Argentina, he wants to become an English teacher. In his TESOL review he shares his thoughts on the center in Buenos Aires. He learned a lot regarding teaching techniques and lesson planning. He is confident that he can now lead his own classroom and is excited to start working as an English
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.
In this unit, I learned what the difference of productive skills for speaking and writing. Both are very different but have the same goal that is to communicate. I also learned the difference from an accuracy lesson and fluency lesson. Accuracy focuses on correct language that is controlled by the teacher and fluency allows students experiment and be creative with the language.Receptive skills include reading and listening skills. These two skills are equally important. As for reading, students may have more chance to understand as the text is captured on the paper, but for listening, students need to learn how to capture the important words to understand the meaning, in case they can?t listen to all the conversation, as they can only hear once.
