teaching English as a foreign language ( in china)?

I taught English in Taiwan and always aimed to teach my students a usable form first — after that, as they grew, I wanted them to learn as if they were English speakers because their goal was to go to an American boarding school when they went to high school. I think you need to find out the goals of the students — if it’s academic, then you need the full depth. It the goal is to communicate — then you will want to build on a very basic form of usable English

It’s Rhodes scholar. But that’s beside the point. The language level depends upon which group you are teaching. If you are teaching the beginner, basic level, it will be just that – very basic, very beginner, with lots of pointing to objects, pictures of objects, making up sentences and practicing on each other with simple, everyday phrases. Hello. How are you? What is your name? Where do you live? etc.

As the level of comprehension goes up, you will begin to work on the grammar and sentence construction.

You’ll learn about this in the TEFL classes – and you will enjoy them.

You’ll find students in China are eager to learn and, unlike students in North America, discipline isn’t a problem. Nor is homework. If you assign it, it will be done.

I have my BA in education and was teaching elementary in the states before arriving to Okinawa, JP. As a western teacher, you don’t usually teach them grammar, unless they know nothing of the English language–because many schools are already teaching them “English.” A lot of the students that I teach over here on Okinawa, have been taught grammar in school–they just don’t know how to apply what they have learned in school to the real world. What they learn in school is academic based, and not “real world” or “conversational english.” Hope this helps.

For a first rate activity in Japan you will prefer some preparation/journey in coaching EFL. you will additionally earn greater money, however the value of residing is larger. China has greater possibilities for those with much less journey/preparation in coaching. eastern is way less annoying to earnings and understand. chinese language has tones, which will properly be very confusing for nonnative audio device. you could learn some basic eastern to get with the aid of in a pair months in an in intensity direction. human beings in the two countries are very style to community English audio device, so they may assist you to. In significant cities you will discover English audio device who can assist you to, yet in smaller cities you will easily prefer a minimum of a few basic language skills.

Yes, you can teach English, what they need to know is how we speak, not as much written grammar,IE(you don’t need to teach them how to break down a sentence), it gets too confusing. You will be working on conversation language skills, and which pronouns apply,(he verses him,she/her).