Songs are a useful tool in language acquisition. Language teachers can use them to open or close their lessons, to introduce topics or themes, to add variety or change the pace, to present new vocabulary or recycle known language structures. Simple, repetitive songs often contain a recurrent grammatical...
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06/03/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Teach Listening Activities
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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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Language learning is not easy. It takes time and effort. Games can sustain students’ interest and work so they ought to be at the heart of teaching the foreign language. Perhaps they are often used as short warm-up activities or when there is some time left at the...
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20/02/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
TEFL to Young Learners
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Reading is Best Taught Using a Combination of Three Methods: Auditory training – training for the ears to prepare the child’s brain for phonics. Phonics – knowledge of letter(s) sounds. Whole Language – immediate application of phonics into connected sentences and stories. It’s clear from the research that...
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17/02/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Teach Reading
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If you want to make a success and teach a great English language lesson, you should consider the following before stepping into the classroom: Be aware of the aims of teaching the English language in the country where you are working and in the educational stage you are...
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14/02/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
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Who is a low-achiever student? If the student doesn’t or achieves to a low extent the required objectives at the end of the lesson, unit or course, it is important to recognize and identify him/her as a low achiever. In this case, a remedial plan should be designed...
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12/02/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Low Achiever Students
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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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There are five main components of any successful lesson. You need to rethink your lesson plan if you miss one of them. These five components are as follows: 1- Objectives: Write what you expect your students will do by the end of the lesson e.g. by the end...
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29/01/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Lesson Planning
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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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