This is your first introduction to the classroom and issues involving teaching.

1. You are about to undertake a TESOL Certificate course. This may be your first look at what Teaching in a Foreign Country means.

In this Module we introduce three articles:-

The first article considers what does it mean to be an English Language Teacher.

Read this article first. Don't worry if you do not understand everything - the pieces will fall into place.

Article: An Expose of 'What Is An English Teacher'.

Secondly, you should read the article that looks in a general way at the differences in three countries, Greece, and EFL country, Korea an EFL country, and Czech Republic, EFL country. See
A Comparison of Korean, Czech and Greek Second Language Learning Systems

ESL means English as Second Language -that is, the English language is already found in that country. Example, those non English speakers who go to live in the USA (Hispanic, Mexican.)

EFL means English as a Foreign Language. In countries like Korea, Japan, for example, the only English is the spoken in classrooms - hence EFL.

The next article to read to complete this Module, is
'Assessing Dictionaries in Asian EFL usage.' This topic considers the value if using Dictionaries in the EFL/ESL classroom. You should also look at the article entitled,
Dictionaries Usage in EFL and Learner Development

Finally, read The relationship of school year, sex and proficiency on the use of learning strategies in learning English of Korean junior high school students for an example of the differences in learning styles that boy and girl students may show.

Your assignment:-

(1) Imagine you are entering the classroom (let's say for this exercise we are in Asia) for the first time. It is expected you will be teaching this class for the next year. The students are aged 12-13 western age, (13-14 Asian age) and have been studying English for about 3-4 years.

Your School Director has asked you to spend time getting to know the students and introducing yourself and anything you wish to do.

Write your response discussing:-
(a) what you would like to achieve in that lesson
(b) the issues that you would consider
(c) and how you would present the lesson.
(d) how you would conclude the lesson - the last 5 -6 minutes might involve a fun game for example
(e) after the lesson what steps (analysis) could you take to review your lesson style and how it went?

Assume these students are very excited to see you and may have many questions.

Submit the answer to
asianefltesolc@yahoo.com
and include your student number.

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