by Johanna Kawasaki | Aug 7, 2023 | Pedagogy (TESOL/TEFL Strategies & Methodology), Teaching English Abroad, Teaching English Online
There’s no single way to teach English and, in fact, there have been many popular approaches over the years. These are a few of the top ESL teaching methods, including communicative language teaching (CLT) and total physical response (TPR), used in the classroom...
by Camille Turner | Dec 9, 2022 | Classroom Games/Activities, Pedagogy (TESOL/TEFL Strategies & Methodology)
If you’re a teacher, chances are that you’ve used realia at some point in your classroom and you may not have even realized it! Whether you’ve held up a real object to elicit a vocabulary word from students or brought in a special item from home to grab your...
by Lorena Siegel | Nov 25, 2022 | Pedagogy (TESOL/TEFL Strategies & Methodology)
Teaching vocabulary in ESL is crucial to a student’s language development and communication skills. After all, without adequate words, it’s difficult to relate thoughts, ideas, and feelings about who we are and how we interpret the world around us. But how do we...
by Lorena Siegel | Oct 10, 2022 | Job Resources, Teaching English Abroad, Teaching English Online
We asked experienced English teacher turned business owner Lorena Siegel, in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, to share her insights into the interview process for prospective teachers. She told us what she looks for when hiring new teachers and shares common TEFL interview...
by Jennifer Collis | Jun 5, 2022 | ELT/ESL Professional Development
You’ve been doing your research into getting certified to teach English as a foreign language (TEFL) and you keep also running across the term TESOL. So, what is TESOL? Is TESOL certification the same as TEFL, or is it different? The short answer is, although there is...