CertTESOL Useful Links
Language Awareness: Grammar
Parts of speech and basic tenses – check out this introductory video by Kate, one of Active Language’s teacher trainers
Onestop English Grammar Reference – find links here to articles on teaching different tenses with ideas for activities
Verb Tenses – highly comprehensive aid for tenses from English Page
Timelines – we use timelines a lot to help learners understand tenses. This article from the British Council gives further information about why and how we use them
Language Awareness: Lexis
Presenting Vocabulary – a very useful article from the British Council
Is lexis more important than grammar? – a potentially controversial article from Hugh Dellar
Teaching chunks rather than semantic sets – an interesting approach from Leo Sullivan
Dependent Prepositions – a very comprehensive list with verbs, adjectives and nouns
Teaching Collocations – a good guide to different types of collocations and possible issues with them
Language Awareness: Phonology
Cambridge English Phonetics Focus
Onestop English Interactive Phonemic Chart
Adrian Underhill’s site – fabulous input from the creator of the Sound Foundations phonemic chart
HancockMcDonald – excellent resources for teaching phonology
Methodology
An Overview of ELT Methodologies
Miscellaneous
British Council Teaching Knowledge Database – great go-to site for terminology, methodology, classroom management techniques and more
ELT Glossary – my own collection of terms and acronyms
Asking effective ICQs – Giving clear instructions can be difficult and effective instruction-check questions (ICQs) can really help your learners understand the task. This article from eltresource.com has some good tips
About Spanish Speakers
One of the assignments on the course asks you to work with an individual learner, providing a needs analysis based on their linguistic skills and tailoring a one-hour lesson to their needs. As most of our learners are Spanish, the following articles will give you some guidance on typical problems they have when using English:
Verbling – Top 5 mistakes Spanish speakers make in English
Going English – Common errors Spanish speakers make in English