BBC's TeachingEnglish team has posted a video on using literature for English language teaching and learning. The TeachingEnglish team says, "This is the first of our British Council Seminar videos.…
Those that speak English as a second language have many opportunities open to them. Being bilingual is a tremendous attribute to possess and those that learn English with great proficiency can procure many excellent opportunities. Of course, the beneficial nature of the opportunities will often be based on the skill the person possesses speaking English. That creates a demand for those that have the potential to teach English successfully and this means there are tremendous opportunities for ESL employment.
There are many different approaches one could seek when looking for ESL employment. This is a good thing because the flexibility in terms of the jobs that are open allows different people with different needs and situations to find a job that fits them. This keeps them in the proverbial game as far as landing a solid job offer. Some of these ESL employment opportunities include:
Overseas employment: As the name implies, this method of teaching English as a second language entails signing a contract with an ESL employment service and traveling to a foreign country. Once in the country, the instructor would be assigned to a student in which to teach. (more…)
As Hopkins (1993 cited in McDonough 1997) describes, observation is a “pivotal activity with a crucial role to play in classroom research” (p 101).
The purpose of this observation is to inspect the various interpersonal interactions between instructor ,aids and learners. Observations is not a rigid technique, it should be a dynamic one, this dynamism keeps the class going on.
Teacher in the role of observer creates the awareness feeling within the learners which allows the teacher to impose his/her actual plan in the class-room, the teacher drops syrups then the bees come around. (more…)