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Definition of Lifelong Learning Nowadays, there is a great movement toward lifelong learning which is defined as it is using both formal and informal learning opportunities to foster learners’ continuous development and improvement of the knowledge and skills needed to be employed to achieve personal fulfilment. There are...
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23/08/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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After you have been teaching for the whole school year, you have the right to decide to enjoy some relaxing days away from paper and pens. Teaching is very stressful especially if you are in your first-year teaching. So, you should learn to cope with this stress. Taking...
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04/06/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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There are a number of training courses and qualifications that you can take, either to be able to gain an ELT job or to develop your ELT knowledge and experience. 1. Certificate in TESOL or TEFL The Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and The...
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30/05/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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Some teachers of English love being in the classroom and working with students, so they spend their whole lives teaching while there are some teachers who taught English for a while and then changed their careers making use of the skills that being a teacher helps them to...
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19/05/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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ECRIF stands for five phases of students’ learning: Encounter, Clarify, Remember, Internalize and Fluency. ECRIF is a framework for understanding learning, looking at how people learn rather than prescribing what teachers should or should not do. ECRIF framework focuses on the learning process that students go through as they...
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01/03/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Lanaguage Teaching Approaches, Lesson Planning, Professional Development
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EFL is taught in most countries as a compulsory subject. However, most students in these countries do not show good English proficiency or ability in using English in daily-life communications. It may mean that there is some kind of failure of TEFL in these countries. The following are...
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23/02/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Lanaguage Teaching Approaches, Professional Development, TEFL to Young Learners
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1. Learn your students’ names. You will be able to control your class better and gain more respect if you learn the students’ names early on. If you are one who has a poor memory for names, ask each student to bring a photo of his own and...
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09/02/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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How to be an effective English language teacher? Keep the following pieces of advice in your mind to realize your desire. 1. Be enthusiastic! Don’t do it just for the money. Students appreciate a teacher who shows genuine interest in teaching. Teachers who are not, should consider moving...
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25/01/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development, TEFL to Young Learners
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A Primary Language Teacher Must have the ability to: 1. understand well the characteristics of young learners whom he works with. 2. link his understanding of young learners with the teaching method and assessment procedures that he uses in the classroom. 3. adapt or create the most suitable...
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21/01/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
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The following are some teaching strategies that EFL teachers should use to help students in the classroom develop their proficiency in English, especially when faced with new structures and vocabulary. 1. Encouraging the use of the language: This should be the key component of each EFL class. Teachers...
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26/12/2018 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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