Date posted:2011-02-08 | Writer: The Language Academy | Email: [email protected]
Prestigious international school is presently interviewing experienced ESL teachers for summer and year-round positions in Fort Lauderdale. Both part-time and full-time positions are available. The ideal candidate is a dynamic language professional with a minimum of a B.A. or B.S., plus a TEFL or equivalent 120-hour certificate. Cambridge, TOEFL, IELTS, GRE and/or GMAT experience preferred.
E-mail your resume to the address given on the job heading.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.
The phonemic alphabet and how best to instruct it form the bulk of this unit. It almost seems counter intuitive to teach a meta-alphabet for a language but with a language as complex as English I can see the value of breaking the learning down into how to write it and how to say it. Learning a secondary alphabet is far simpler than learning all the exceptions and special cases that words in English have.This was a really interesting introduction to basic English linguistics and how to teach pronunciation to foreign learners. The attention to how vocal chords work and where in the mouth and throat the sound is coming from is an important yet often understudied component of foreign language instruction. The use of a universal phonetic alphabet is important for helping students learn correct pronunciation.
