Alex ‘TEFLTastic‘ Case is fast emerging as my favourite TEFL blogger. Where the man finds time to sleep is beyond me, such is his prolific rate, not only of writing new articles but also for producing materials and teaching ideas that he freely shares on his blog. He has just added a great list of [...]
Tunisia: Middle East Online reports that the Tunisian Ministry of Education and Training signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the British Council in London Tuesday, to prepare for a huge project aimed at English language teaching reform in all state primary and secondary schools in Tunisia.
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Thanks to Martin (mmcmorrow for pointing this one out on the ELT World Forums).
That’s right folks, ELT oligarchs TESOL are offering a fairly comprehensive range of free six-week online teacher training courses. You don’t even have to be a member of TESOL to participate, although lunch is not included, apparently. Seriously though, all those organising [...]
TESOL are offering a fairly comprehensive range of free six-week online teacher training courses, notes ELT World, and you don’t even have to be a member of TESOL to participate. All those organising and running the online courses are giving their time and expertise freely in order to serve the profession.
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Wherever our TEFL careers have taken us thus far and however much we may feel like we’re destined to remain an English teacher forever, we have to remember that there are always opportunities out there to change course and start again in completely new fields.
If you’ve always wanted to spread your wings and even try [...]
Happy new year to all of you, wherever you find yourself mired in the life of the professional TEFLer. Now, I’ve never resorted to getting my kit off in order to teach a particular language point and I’m sure my students are very grateful for that. Nevertheless, this particular ‘methodology’ may have something going for [...]
The latest edition of Horizons ELT Quarterly Journal is now available for free download. The contents of the current issue are as follows.
English teaching in Israel can be immensely rewarding
by Michelle Simmons
Facing financial crisis? Then move your teaching career abroad
by Kelly Blackwell
Things to consider before accepting a job
by Sharon K Couzens de Hinojosa
Teaching in Japan [...]
United Arab Emirates & United Kingdom: The British Council has been present and active in Sharjah for 10 years, and has significantly increased the size of its teaching and support staff over this time, to meet local demand from an increasing number of students for English language courses, which is one of the main areas [...]
India: Parents across India recognise the importance of English to their children’s futures but the state education system is struggling to keep up with this new demand, notes Guardian Weekly. Those charitable rogues at the British Council are helping to set up cascade training programmes that it is hoped will improve English language teaching skills [...]
English can be a tough language to learn, just ask the misunderestimated outgoing president of the United States, but the federal government hopes to make it easier with a free website intended to improve access to language instruction for immigrants, as well as ex-presidents.
The website, the innovatievely titled usalearns.org, is a free and easily accessible [...]
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