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Many teachers, presented with the opportunity (or the mandate) to attend a TEFL course in Plymouth wonder exactly what they will be learning. They may be concerned that TEFL may fall under the category of a politically required certification that does not actually apply in the real teaching world. The good news is that teachers taking a TEFL course in Plymouth experience a recognizable difference in the response to their teaching, as concerns foreign language students. The results are measurable as well, as these students obtain higher general test scores in a shorter period of time. This is not only important to the conscientious teacher who wants to make sure to reach all of her students. As teachers continue to get more and more of the responsibility when students fail to learn, their employment may be on the line. Part of the core of TEFL training involves a set of teaching techniques to improve the comprehension and learning process for foreign language students. The components of these techniques are reading, communicative language teaching, and blended learning. It may surprise many parents (and some teachers) that reading is a focus of teaching a second language through a TEFL course in Plymouth. Many believe that learning a language as a youth or an adult focuses on speaking and listening. Some teachers start with a basic vocabulary, and then teach the students how to use that vocabulary byproperly attaching articles and adjectives to the nouns, and properly conjugating the verbs. Once sentence structure is learned, then it becomes a race to inculcate the student with even more vocabulary, as quickly as possible. Reading and writing play a secondary role during this process. For TEFL, reading receives the focus. Students are presented with literature targeted for their age group. The style of writing for these books is more conversational than anything else. The interesting narratives of the stories interest students more than learning the language through conjugation tables. Students and teachers may read together several times. The student will not necessarily understand everything after the first pass, but comprehension and learning will continue in future passes. Communicative language teaching (CLT) focuses on interaction of the students. It emphasizes the students' response to each of the new things they learn, as opposed to simply listening passively to an English lesson. Blended learning takes advantage of the new technologies for teaching through the internet. It is a combination of live teaching with online courses. The latter is known as computer-assisted language learning or CALL. The content for the online portion of teaching is standardized, and results are measurable and published. These are the components of the techniques learned through a TEFL course in Plymouth. About Author Robert Law is offering intensive TEFL course in Plymouth and TEFL courses in Plymouth is an accrediting body of TEFL/TESOL courses and course.
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