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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Teach English Now! Foundational Principles by Arizona State University

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Through a series of engaging metaphors and stories, prospective and current EFL/ESL teachers will identify, summarize, and evaluate 7 basic language learning paradigms. Learners will be presented information on such foundational principles as motivation, risk taking, two different modes of learning, and balancing the teacher profession. Learners are also given an understanding of basic techniques founded on those principles, such as teacher talk, looking “ridiculous” in order to lower the affective filter, and networking. With these foundational principles in mind, ESL/EFL teachers will scrutinize common assumptions about language learning by comparing how they stack up to research-based core principles....
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CR

May 13, 2020

Simply amazing. Loved every single minute of it. I feel myself a much better teacher, I’ve learnt how to see resources to give a better class as well as offer my students better practices of learning.

VM

Apr 10, 2020

Great course! Nice content and great presentation of the material. Useful not only for ESL teachers, but for all language teachers and even for teachers in general. Thank you for creating this course!

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By Ezequiel R

Aug 19, 2023

Very good one!

By Bomkazi L

Feb 26, 2021

Understandably

By Ali H

Feb 13, 2021

Mostly helpful

By Khasan

Sep 14, 2020

Nice course 😊

By Mohamed M

Apr 1, 2020

it's very nice

By Marco B R

Sep 26, 2017

It's marvelous

By Esther F

Mar 4, 2023

quite useful!

By Ngân N

Aug 1, 2020

Great course!

By Sharon E L

Feb 27, 2019

Great course!

By Rocio

Feb 2, 2017

I enjoyed it.

By Duy T

Sep 6, 2016

Very useful!

By ghaith a

Nov 5, 2018

Good course

By Reem K

Feb 1, 2016

too general

By Cynthia L

Jan 16, 2019

Thank you!

By Jordan F

Dec 22, 2018

Good stuff

By Mou C

Jun 20, 2022

excellent

By Asmae B

Jun 16, 2021

great

By Rejoice C

Feb 7, 2025

Good

By Хаврюченко Н В

Apr 1, 2020

Cool

By Huynh q h

Jun 5, 2016

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Jan 15, 2022

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Jun 22, 2017

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Dec 20, 2015

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By Kristine

Mar 31, 2020

Content is high quality and the professors are engaging. Videos need more visuals than just someone speaking at you 90% of the time though. The quizzes are decent in that I had to actually go back and look at the material a few times to remember the answer, so they're not too easy. But the writing assignments are kind of a joke in that as long as you write a few sentences of anything remotely related to the content you will get a passing grade. It's good practice to read other people's assignments to see what you might be dealing with in a real English class, but you're not required to actually grade it either. I suppose if you do a video you get to practice speaking to an audience. I plan on doing the full certificate so I hope the next assignments are more worthwhile. For the price of $50 a month it's a good deal. I was able to complete this first part in 2 days, but I suppose if you're working full time or have a family it could take you a lot longer.

By Maya W H

Dec 17, 2016

There was interesting information in the class, but the peer review questions were not well developed to stimulate thought and new ideas. Many of the answers I read were just repetitions of what was learned in class. I think the objectives and expectations could have been more clearly communicated and the statement themselves better thought out. I also did not find the peer review process to be that productive as a grading tool. The parameters for grading were extremely simple and the feed back was quite subjective from students that did not understand the assignments.

While I learned some useful information, I won't continue with this course.