Did you know that you do not need to know the local language to teach English abroad? Along with a qualification such as TEFL, you will usually only be required to have fluent English. But how do you teach English to learners who do not yet know it at all? The main challenge of teaching English to foreign learners is content instruction. Instructions of how to do a classroom activity will usually be delivered in English, which obviously is an obstacle for young learners who c

To be sure that students are absorbing the information you are teaching them in lessons, it is useful to understand how students learn. The question of how human minds acquire knowledge, however, has been heavily debated. Here are three different learning theories to consider in your approach to teaching. Behaviorism This theory states that learning is achieved as a result of changes in behaviour after being exposed to a stimulus. This stimulus in a learning environment is p