Do China Speak English

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Lhasa, China? Check out our opportunities in Lhasa, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! In this unit, I have learned the difference between accuracy activities and fluency activities. They are equally important but have different focuses. A teacher should encourage students to speak and have...  [Read more]

  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word "bunkum". This word is a noun and refers to foolish talk or nonsense. The word came into existence after a representative for Buncombe County, North Carolina, held a speech on an irrelevant subject in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1820. Soon after, the word "bunkum" became known as a synonym for nonsense. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next. Thank you for the cours. It was very...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Haikou, China? Check out our opportunities in Haikou, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This section proved to be interesting reading for me, as a native English speaker we take these processes for granted. Listening skills are a very important process in learning a new language as...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Quanzhou, China? Check out our opportunities in Quanzhou, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This unit teaches us how to pronounce words correctly and to control our pitches and volume to correctly express the words we wanted to say. this also helped learn more about phonetic scripts, it will...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Guangzhou, China? Check out our opportunities in Guangzhou, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Students in Japan, where I teach, have particular difficulty with conditionals because Japanese is very ambiguous with regards to tense, and the reader/listener is expected to grasp the tense of a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhalantun, China? Check out our opportunities in Zhalantun, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Going through Unit 4 today, I now understand how and why we structure lessons in ways which allows us to tackle certain class topics. For example, if we were to have the aim to be able to speak...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Chaozhou, China? Check out our opportunities in Chaozhou, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This unit talks about teaching the two productive skills -- speaking & writing. Speaking & writing, compared to other two receptive skills of reading & listening, involve output. Thus...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Xianyang, China? Check out our opportunities in Xianyang, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This unit addressed different methods that the teacher can use to manage student behavior in the classroom. It addressed topics such as building rapport, maintaining discipline and encouraging students...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Benxi, China? Check out our opportunities in Benxi, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This unit covered introducing new language to students. Introducing new language depends on the level of the students, but this unit attempted to speak about the issue generally. I learned about how the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Jingdezhen, China? Check out our opportunities in Jingdezhen, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This unit covered good ways to establish rapport and motivate students while heeding to the different class situations and students that a TEFL teacher would face. I liked the ice-breaker...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Sanming, China? Check out our opportunities in Sanming, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! The productive skills of writing and speaking are of equal importance. Once again, when teaching and planning a lesson, the teacher must create the desire in students to communicate. So, when introducing...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Qinhuangdao, China? Check out our opportunities in Qinhuangdao, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! One of the key learning points from this chapter is the importance of building and maintaining good rapport between student and teacher. Good rapport can be achieved through choosing ideas and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Wafangdian, China? Check out our opportunities in Wafangdian, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This unit discussed the productive skills, speaking and writing. In order to engage students, the teacher should choose topics that interest students and encourage student interaction. Students...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Liuzhou, China? Check out our opportunities in Liuzhou, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This unit discusses the importance of writing and speaking in learning a new language. Writing is definitely the understated part of this process. People do tend to pick up speaking the new language...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Ruichang, China? Check out our opportunities in Ruichang, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Based on the videos and the two teaching styles, the primary take-away is that the attitude that the teacher comes in to the class with, will have a huge effect on the success of the lesson. It is...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Dandong, China? Check out our opportunities in Dandong, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! In the English classroom, pronunciation is often forgotten about in favor of other topics. However, language learners are just as concerned about pronunciation as they are about other crucial topics,...  [Read more]

With around 100,000 foreign teachers working across the country each year, China is now the world leader in ESL teaching jobs. This recent boom has been brought about by a buoyant economy that has given more and more families the financial freedom to provide a good education for their children. There are an estimated 300 million people currently learning English in China, so potential jobs are widespread and relatively easy to come by. As there is often a shortage of available teachers in many areas, schools are increasingly offering high salaries and other bonuses in an effort to attract teachers to their door. The exact figure you can expect to earn will vary considerably depending on the type of employer and the location you choose, but the average is between $1,000 and $2,500...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Dazhou, China? Check out our opportunities in Dazhou, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! When teaching English, it is important for instructors to keep their audience, or students, in mind. Are the students beginners? Is it an individual student, in a one-on-one session? Are the students young...  [Read more]

  So let's have a look now what might take place in a typical writing lesson and, again, we're going to use the format of a straight arrow ESA lesson. Our first stage is to the go to the engage stage and, if we think back to what we said before, what we need to do is try to generate interest. So, an example here could be we show a picture first of all taken from a newspaper or magazine and then we can ask the students some questions. From looking at the picture we can ask them if they can tell us what is actually happening now as shown by the picture. Then, we can generate a bit more interest by asking them to give us ideas about what they thought was happening before this picture took place and what happened after. So, here we're just trying to build up the idea of a sequence of...  [Read more]

  The popularity of China as a destination for English language teachers has steadily increased in recent years, and it is now right at the top of the list with an estimated 100,000 foreign teachers working in the country each year. As a result of an extraordinary economic boom, Chinese parents are more willing than ever to spend thousands of dollars on their children's English education to give them the best chance of success in the future. With over 300 million people learning English across the country, China's insatiable demand for English language teachers looks set to continue. As there are often more job opportunities than there are teachers to fill them, schools are willing to offer very good salaries and other benefits to attract teachers. Salaries vary depending on the...  [Read more]