Classroom assessment is the act of collecting information about students, curricula, and methodology with the aim of making decisions concerning students’ needs and teacher’s objectives. Classroom Assessment Should Help the Teachers in: Determining students’ strengths and weaknesses. Determining the learning styles of the students. Learning about students’ interests in various topics. Classifying students into groups […]
8 Things You Must Do to Improve Your ELT Performance
1- Asses Your Students’ Prior Knowledge & Skills. Sometimes students know more than we think they do. Sometimes they have misconceptions about the content. The only way to know what information that students bring to a course is to test them to collect information that reveals their current levels of knowledge and understanding. That information […]
16 Tips to Prepare a Good Language Test
How to prepare a good language test? Here is a list of 16 tips to consider when you are about to prepare your test. 1- Determine the purpose of the test. 2- Define the content area to be tested. 3- Choose and prepare appropriate and relevant items. 4- Base your test on your students’ abilities. […]
Top Seven Skills You Need to Be a Successful EFL Teacher
Understanding well your students knowing well their characteristics. Understanding well how the process of learning occurs anticipating problems and preparing solutions. Creating a relaxed atmosphere in the classroom and a friendly relationship with the students. Creating various & interesting activities and suitable learning environment to get your students’ attention all the time. Selecting & using […]
Quite Simply, Teaching English Individual Sounds & Intonation
English as a language is actually made up of many smaller sound units, called phonemes. These small pieces of sound are the “building blocks of words.” Beginner readers should develop phonemic awareness by learning to hear and break down words into individual sounds, blend sounds, manipulate them to make new words and then, say the words […]
5 MUST-HAVE SKILLS FOR A SALES REP IN 2019 – Guest Post
In the world of influencer marketing, today’s customer is savvier than ever. Sales reps benefit from new tools and technology, but they face new obstacles, too. Consumers no longer want to be “sold to.” They look for recommendations from friends, family, and trusted accounts on social media. The decades-old sales tactic of “telling, not asking” […]
Top Tips For Creating A Typical EFL Lesson Plan
A lesson plan is a framework for a lesson. If you imagine a lesson is like a journey, then the lesson plan is the map. It shows you where you start, where you finish and the route to take to get there. Whatever the level of your experience, it is important that you take time […]
Watch How Easily You Can Teach the Four Language Skills
The English language involves the use of four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Each skill has main features and there are some techniques to teach and develop each skill. Although the four language skills should be integrated into each lesson, I am are going to focus on each skill separately: Teaching Listening Listening involves some […]
How to Teach Language Functions Based on Communicative Principles
What is Language Function? A language function is a reason why we communicate. Every time we speak or write, we do so for a purpose or a function. Here are some examples of functions: Examples of Language Functions Apologizing. Greeting. Clarifying. Inviting. Advising. Agreeing & disagreeing Accepting & refusing Expressing obligation Expressing preferences …………. etc. […]
15 Tips to Regain Control of Your Class NOW
Maintaining order and discipline especially in large classes is one of the major challenges that most teachers encounter nowadays. It’s a common teacher challenge. As a matter of fact, it’s a struggle to keep students quiet and under control in a classroom including about sixty students. They talk, move and make much noise. Maintaining order and […]