Job interview question: What interests you about this job and what skills and strengths would you be able to bring to it?

Your potential employer wants to know how much interested you are in the position and how well prepared you are for the job interview. If you are a strong candidate, you should be able to relate your skills to specific job requirements. 

 Answer

 You should probably say the following:

 (1) Explain why this job is so attractive to you
(2) Tell your basic skill or skills (choose at least the one that might be useful to the institution)
(3) Tell your three basic strengths (and explain why they would be useful to them if they employed you).

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What are your weaknesses?


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What color is your brain?


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What is your English teaching philosophy?


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Job Interview Question: Teach me something I don't know in the next five minutes

Possible answer:

 Choose any topic related to the job you are applying for, and explain in five minutes. 

 For example, tell how crocodiles fly. Then check their comprehension by asking a question like ''Can a house fly?'' or ''Are you flying now''?

 Crocodiles can fly by plane. Put them on the plane and let them fly.

We are all flying at high speed around the Sun.
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If I walked into your classroom, what would I see going on?


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What are your classroom rules? 


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How do you know how long to spend on your objectives?


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What are the most important issues facing your profession today?


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Job interview question: What video lectures would you recommend to your ESL students?

Answer:

 To improve academic listening, note-taking and test preparation skills, I would strongly recommend the following three video lectures:

Improving listening skills

 How to take lecture notes

 How to remember for tests
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Why the majority of the students cannot communicate in English fluently having studied English for 12 years in a school?


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What is your classroom discipline philosophy?


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What salary do you expect? 


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Why are you leaving your current job?


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What are your classroom rules? 


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What online audio materials do you use? Explain why?

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How to answer the following ESL job interview question: What is your English teaching philosophy?

Answer (an example only!):

 Every teacher is a personality and has his or her own English teaching experience, and consequently, English teaching philosophy. Therefore, your answer should focus on your English teaching experience. 

 First, discuss your own personality. Tell briefly about yourself professionally. Then explain why you decided to become an English teacher. In addition, you should explain who influenced you as an English teacher most of all and what aspects of teaching English you consider the most important. You can briefly discuss a few linguistic theories of second language acquisition and explain who had the most profound impact on you as an English teacher. You can mention, for example, Noam Chomsky, Geoffrey Leech and Stephen Krashen. Perhaps you could express your opinion about language learning and language acquisition and explain differences between them. Do your students learn ESL or EFL or do they acquire it? You could probably add that a second language acquisition requires meaningful interaction and your students are concerned not only with the form of their utterances but also with the messages that they convey to the recipients. You should also consider what aims of a second language teaching and learning are. Most foreign language instructors and researchers claim that the aim of learning a foreign language is communication, either spoken or written. You should also discuss your role in the language classroom: explain what you teach and how you teach. In addition you can tell how you prepare your teaching materials and lesson plans.

 As you probably know, students learn a foreign language better, if they are motivated to learn. Therefore, it is important for you to show that you are the teacher who knows how to motivate your students. Here are a few aspects to consider.

 First of all, it is important to teach students how to study. Most students do not know how to learn vocabulary, how to develop their listening skills, and how to develop their thinking skills in English. A few useful tips might increase your students’ knowledge and motivation. Second, your students should understand that acquiring a foreign language means that students pick up the language practical skills that they need for communication purposes. Students should not try to memorize randomly grammar rules, syntactical structures and phrases. Language is a way of learning about the world and it is most effectively acquired in the meaningful context. Meaningful contexts stimulate students to think and learn about the world through the use of the target language: students learn effectively if they try to classify, contrast and compare certain facts and solve problems in the classroom. Third, you should explain which English language teaching methods you use with certain groups of children - based on their interests, age, class size, and course requirements. Also, you should explain how you motivate your students by using various strategies, such as learner-centered activities, informal assessment and cooperative learning. 

 Finally, you should mention that an effective teacher should contribute to their school not only through teaching but also through community service, administrative responsibilities and research activities. 

 You should summarize your statement by telling how you relate teaching to education and how you share your teaching experiences with other teachers and with your students’ parents. 

 English Teaching Philosophy Example...

Personal Statement Example...

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What types of assessment do you know?

Answer:

 Assessment can be divided into the following types: initial, formative, and summative.  In the classroom environment teachers conduct informal assessment and the final exams are considered as formal assessment.

 Initial assessment (also called a diagnostic test) is conducted before starting the teaching process. 

 Formative assessment basically involves qualitative feedback which is important to a teacher and to a student. For example, an English teacher asks students to use the correct forms of irregular verbs in a sentence. If all students perform the task correctly, the teacher moves on. If some students do not perform well, the teacher explains the rule. If most students do not understand the subject, the teacher reviews irregular verbs and pays students' attention to the most difficult or confusing cases. Formative assessment actively supports student learning and if conducted properly, it can motivate students. It is often called assessment for learning. 

 Summative assessment monitors educational outcomes. This type of assessment, according to Bloom, 'assures adaptation of teaching and learning activities in the ways that enable students to attain intended learning outcomes'. Summative assessment is aimed at accountability and grading and is often called assessment of learning.

Assessment can also be distinguished as objective and subjective. Objective assessment is based on observation of measurable facts. Subjective assessment is based on personal opinion and personal interpretation.
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Research topics in the field of English stylistics

 Stylistics and literary criticism.

 Text abridgement.

ESL job interview question: 
What are your weaknesses?


 Job interview question: 
What color is your brain?

Job interview question: 
What is your English teaching philosophy?


 Job interview question: 
What is the purpose for using KWL charts?


 Job interview question: 
What are the duties and responsibilities of a teacher?

Job interview question: 
What ESL activities in small classes would you suggest?


Job interview question: 
Why the majority of the students cannot communicate in English fluently having studied English for 12 years in a school?

Job interview question:
What is your classroom discipline philosophy?



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What English pronunciation teaching resources are best?

Answer:

 There are quite a few useful resources, for example, "Test your pronunciation" by Michael Vaughan-Rees, Underhill's "Sound Foundations", and "English Pronunciation in Use" by Mark Hancock – there are 60 lessons with CDs, phonemic chart, stress and intonation.

There are quite a few excellent online resources, too. You will find them in ESL Teacher Reference Desk.

ESL learners who wish to improve their English pronunciation should develop their listening skills. Many listening skill development resources are available here...    

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If I walked into your classroom, what would I see going on?

Job interview question: 
What are your classroom rules? 

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How do you know how long to spend on your objectives?

Job interview question: 
What are the most important issues facing your profession today?

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Describe yourself as a teacher in three negative adjectives.



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What three tips would you give to your ESL students to improve their pronunciation, intonation, and accent?

Answer:

 1. ESL learners should record their voice and then listen to it. This exercise can help them to detect the mistakes that they are making.

 2. ESL learners should use audio books more frequently. While listening, they should look into the text and read at the same time. They should record themselves reading texts of the audio book. Then they should compare the pronunciation and accent of their own English with the English of the native speaker from the audio book.

 3. ESL learners should read aloud in English for at least thirty minutes every day. 

 To improve American accent and pronunciation, use the following links and resources:
http://www.esldrive.com/americanenglish.html


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What color is your brain?

Job interview question: 
What is your English teaching philosophy?

Job interview question: 
What is the purpose for using KWL charts?

Job interview question: 
What are the duties and responsibilities of a teacher?

Job interview question: 
What ESL activities in small classes would you suggest?

Job interview question: 
How do you know if you met objectives? 

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