This is the official information from the University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations website.You have opted for the rewarding career of teaching English to speakers of other languages, and now need to consider a higher qualification in order to develop as a teacher and be eligible for new roles.What is DELTA?If you have substantial experience of …
Monthly Archive: June 2007
Jun
20
Living and Teaching in Argentina
Buenos Aires is a mixture of the cities of Paris, Rome and Madrid. It’s one of the most sophisticated cities in Latin America, and very European.As any other city in the world tourists need to take precautions when going out, but nothing more serious than in any other cosmopolitan city. Just don’t go out with …
Jun
08
Living the dream
Moving abroad to teach English is an exciting prospect, but you need to do your planning properly, says Jenny Johnson The complete article can be found at Education Guardian.Christmas is over and along with all those New Year’s resolutions you have decided to follow your dream and look into teaching English abroad. How do you …
Jun
08
Baptism of ‘absolute freak-out’
Elizabeth Buie’s full article can be found at the Times Educational Supplement. The language development of migrant children is one of the most common political challenges, conference is told Failure to make provision for the broad range of community languages in this country could be straying into institutional racism, a languages expert has warned. The …
Jun
08
ELT reconstruction in post-invasion Iraq
Ala’ Hussein Oda surveys the task of ELT reconstruction in post-invasion Iraq Teaching English in Iraq has undergone drastic changes since the fall of the former regime. The first in a series of eight textbooks, The New English Course for Iraq, was published in 1973. The New English Course established the audio-lingual method of teaching …
Jun
06
Teaching with a Smile in Vietnam
Cheap living and charming students make working in bustling Ho Chi Minh City an unexpected pleasure, reports Rebecca Norris This article originally appears in the Education Guardian. Vietnam is the twelfth happiest country in the world, according to a recent survey by the New Economics Foundation (the UK ranks 108th). This may seem surprising considering …
Jun
05
Searching for Jobs in Brazil
Job SearchIt is always possible to arrange the future job beforehand. A lot of positions you can find on different web site that offer the relative information; the job offers can be like from private companies and from schools predominantly if you want to work and live in São Paulo, the cultural centre of Brazil …