United Arab Emirates: According to The National, a substantial number of pupils in state schools applying to university do not have the English-language skills required to begin degree studies, college administrators say. Expressing concern over the time and money taken up by university preparatory courses, they are urging secondary schools to spend more time teaching [...]
Look, we simply don’t get paid enough to have to deal with this kind of crap, OK? We’re in this for the sheer fun of it, the ‘alternative’ lifestyle and the chance to experience exotic locales. The last bloody thing we need is someone trying to turn this into a bona fide profession. However, that’s [...]
Those teachers among you who are interested in starting your own TEFL website or even an online English teaching business are probably looking to find reliable website hosting to support your site. If you’re in business to make money, then you need to consider using a web host that is going to bring the maximum [...]
We have blogging legend EFL Geek to thank for this particular post. OK, so here’s the deal…
1 Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog
2 Share 7 facts about yourself in the post – some random, some weird
3 Tag seven people at the end of your post
4 Let them know they’ve been [...]
No, I’m not talking about the changes in soccer over the past decade or so caused by the huge influx of television money. I’m actually referring to the British Council website of the same name. I originally stumbled across Football culture seven or eight years ago and was immediately impressed. Basically, it was a language [...]
So, ‘which teaching destination will be worst hit by economic meltdown‘ asks Optimus, in a poll over on the ELT World forums. From the looks of it, early voting seems to suggest that TEFL teachers in North America are going to bear the brunt of it.
Join in the discussion here.
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Today I was looking for a few new wordpress themes for my Blogs and eventually I found this site: DreamTemplate. I was surprised to see the amount of quality web templates they have. Not only that, they offer many variety of graphic products, icons, flash web templates, navigation interfaces, etc. and they keep on adding [...]
When many of us TEFL teachers take the plunge and start blogging, we tend first of all to go for a free blog hosting provider. This, of course, is an alternative for those of us who have no budget to buy our own domain and / or a web hosting space. I started out ELT [...]
Thanks to all of you who have visited this blog. I’m busier than ever over at eltworld.net setting up things. The ELT World news blog has been up and running for almost a year now…
Please drop by and learn all the latest TEFL scandal from around the world at the ELT World News blog, you’ll [...]
As you well know, the opportunities to both to blog and to make a genuine income from blogging are expanding all the time. A continuing theme on the ELT World forums is the subject of how to get a residual income and, more specifically, how to get paid to blog. NatureGirl321 raised the subject a [...]
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