Shweta Ramkumar

I am a native English speaker from Australia and speak with a neutral accent. I am TEFL certified, have a Bachelors Degree in Biomedical Science, Masters in Teaching and have taught for 10 years in Australia, UK, Thailand and online. I have been teaching English as a Foreign Language to students online from all over the world since 2016. As a language teacher, my aim is to help my students become more confident communicators and apply their English language skills effortlessly in any situation. My teaching style is personalised, student-focused, centred around students' learning styles and needs and involves frequent inquiry, interaction, discussion, communication and collaboration. I use various resources catering to students' learning needs and styles, mainly communication-based activities, but also those that build their grammar and vocabulary. Some of these include written texts, visual aids, short videos, audio clips, role plays, comprehension exercises, debates on various current affairs and controversial issues and discussion questions. I ensure that my students get enough practice, gain confidence and give them ample opportunities to communicate and practice their English conversation skills. I also regularly provide and receive constructive feedback during and after lessons and always use positive reinforcement in my interactions.

My teaching style is personalised, hands-on, student-centered, uses a lot of inquiry-based and collaboration and a lot of positive reinforcement and encouragement in my interactions with students. I structure my lessons by first interacting with students to build a rapport with them and find out what areas they are struggling in. I then use quizzes, worksheets and simple tasks as pre-assessment tools to find out their strengths and weaknesses as well as their learning style. Based on the results, I use a variety existing teaching and learning resources and develop new ones to cater to their learning needs and styles, including role plays, debates, dialogues and other communication-based activities, worksheets, power points, animations, videos, audio clips and more hands-on activities. I ensure that my students get enough practice and gain confidence in the skills needed to improve upon at all times. Providing and receiving constructive feedback to and from my students is a critical component in my teaching and I ensure this is done on a regular basis during lessons and after correcting students' work.
I have assisted in the preparation of annual tutoring curriculum for my students, a subject booklet summarising the topics to be covered in the year, brief notes specific to each topic, assessment tasks and hints and tips for preparing for examinations; preparation of my own notes for students in each topic, giving them individual assistance on any topics they are struggling with, helping them with assignments and other assessment tasks, giving them weekly revision tasks as homework and correcting them and also assisting students with exam preparation.


Aside from general conversation and discussion-based lessons, I also assist students in improving their written communication skills for academic and professional purposes, help them build their confidence in speaking to a large varied audience, prepare for job interviews, presentations, seminars and examinations such as IELTS, TOEFL, TESOL and PTE. I have taught and can also teach business English, health and medical English (since I have a background in Biomedical Science and am a Science teacher too), customer-service and admin based English and finance and legal English. I teach students from the ages of 12 to university students and predominantly adult professionals.

Through working closely with me over the years, my students have managed to accelerate their academic results, have developed a clearer understanding and appreciation of the nuances and concepts of the subjects I have taught them and have been able to apply them in an articulate, coherent and confident manner. I have received very positive feedback from my students, their peers, parents and fellow teachers through my services and have formed lifelong constructive professional relationships with them.