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- ELT World TEFL Website of the month: ELT ChatELT Chat With the current big bang-scale increase of the twittersphere, a new type of chat has surfaced for English language professionals. The wonderful #ELTChat is currently being moderated by Twitter TEFL heavyweights @ShellTerrell, @Marisa_C, @englishraven, and @olafelch (although the … Continue reading → […]
- United States: Subject Matters – Reading, Writing… and Readying for TestsIt��s the best of times and the worst of times, exclaims the unusually Dickensian CNN, for English teachers as they find themselves more accountable than ever for the academic success of their students, while balancing new technologies that change time-honored … Continue reading → […]
- United States: Feds Make ELLs a Priority for Tests Based on Common-Core StandardsThe federal government, notes Education Week, is intending to provide grants for the development of English-language-proficiency assessments that are aligned with the national common-core standards. The proposed grant competition would push the country toward more uniformity for the definition of … Continue reading → […]
- Vietnam: Pilot English Teaching Project is Hit by Staff Shortage and Poor SkillsFactors including a serious lack of facilities, as well as a shortage of qualified teachers have adversely affected the Ministry of Education and Training’s pilot English language teaching programme for primary school children, notes VietnamNet. Read more on this… Post … Continue reading → […]
- Would you have done this for a job?Simple question: would you have done what this person did to try and get a job in the Gulf? She flew me to Qatar on a 1-way ticket (despite my several written requests for a return ticket since it seemed … Continue reading → […]
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Yearly Archives: 2009
Nepal: U.S. Embassy Sponsors ‘English by Radio’ Program
Good news for all mountain lovers. The U.S. Embassy-sponsored ‘English by Radio program’ went on air as of December 25th, on Radio Sagarmatha. The 52-segment (whatever that may be) English language program is produced by this community FM radio station, … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, News, nepal
Tagged American Institutes for Research, American Peace Corps volunteers
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Expats asked to teach English in China
A non-profit social club in downtown Jing’an District is calling for expats to join them and provide free English lessons for poor children in the community because the English school they planned to work with has been closed. Bless. The … Continue reading
United Kingdom: Mind your slanguage!
Cor blimey, guvnor: “Young people are growing up with a new form of composite language. It’s a bit cockney, a bit West Indian, a bit West African, with some Bangladeshi and Kuwaiti – and it seems to be replacing traditional … Continue reading
Native English teachers establish a labour union in Incheon
South Korea: In an intriguing news item from the Korea Times, a labour union, comprised of native English teachers working for a hagwon (Korean language institute), has been established in Incheon, with representation from a legal expert on labour. Amazingly, … Continue reading
Teh impotence of proofreading
Thank you to the ever wonderful EFL Geek, who gets full credit for discovering this… Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.
Interpreting a TEFL/ESL/TESOL Job Advert: Beyond the Rhetoric
A fantastic guest piece on the perils of the TEFL job ad by Will Pearson: Few professions in the world have such a unified online job market. Schools now see the Internet as the first place to advertise, while a … Continue reading
Posted in Jobs, Lead articles, job security
Tagged Dave's ESL Cafe, dave's esl cafe is crap
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When TEFL interview questions are not an option
When you’ve been in the profession for a few years you might find yourself going for a big job in a location like the Gulf, and, more often than not, the actual selection process goes through a recruitment agency operating … Continue reading
Posted in Interview answers, Interview questions, Jobs, Lead articles
Tagged TEFL interviews
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How to survive the world of TEFL #1: Never volunteer for anything
One of the great fallacies of the twentieth century was that it was somehow wrong to be a pessimist. The idea that one is in the wrong if you view the proverbial glass as being half empty rather than half … Continue reading
Posted in Lead articles, professional development
Tagged How to survive the world of TEFL
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Do you ever lie when people ask you what you do for a living?
Sometimes there are questions that make you stop and think, ‘Wow, does that apply to me?‘ As soon as this thread started at the ELT World forum (thank you 31), I knew that it would result in some fairly emotive … Continue reading
Philippines: Teachers blamed as English standards fall
English standards in the Philippines are slipping, according to the results of a ‘major international testing system’. This can only mean one thing, the teachers are to blame, of course. This ‘major international testing system’ also showed Malaysians have taken … Continue reading