The first thing most of us TEFL teachers do when we make the decission and start blogging is to opt for one of the many free blog hosting providers. This, of course, is one good option for those of us on a strict budget and unable to buy our own domain name or UK Web [...]
Prague is among the most beautiful places to teach English, suggests Athena Lamberis on the Matador Abroad website. Worldwide demand for English language instruction has created opportunities from Chile to China. So if you’re thinking about teaching English abroad, you might as well do it somewhere breathtaking, she suggests.
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Philippines: When Filipino Congress resumes on January 19th, the House of Representatives is expected to be engulfed in a war of words — or languages — over the passage of House Bill 5619, the proposed Act Strengthening and Enhancing the Use of English as the Medium of Instruction.
The Enquirer.com notes that the policy has sought [...]
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 [...]
Did you know that something like one in three expats regularly plays golf, regardless of the country in which they find themselves? The first ever recorded game of golf, would you believe, was played at Bruntsfield Links, in Edinburgh, Scotland, as long ago as 1456, as recorded in the archives of the Edinburgh Burgess Golfing [...]
We all know of the practice of teachers warning others about dodgy schools, don’t we? Quite rightly, there is an ever increasing network of sources on the net warning teachers about the places not to go, the TEFL Blacklist being one of the best known, the schools mentioned often making their way onto the ELT [...]
I’m an english teacher who’s constantly on the move; I’m sure that many of you in this profession are like me in that you love to travel and see the world as much as you can. An aspect of our profession that allows me to do just that is attending and presenting at international conferences. [...]
For the inexperienced and / or uninitiated among you, I should start by explaining what this is all about… World of Warcraft (commonly known by the acronym WoW) is a massively popular online multiplayer role-playing game which is currently being played by English teachers all across the globe. There is even a thread dedicated to [...]
United States: The United States must embark on an aggressive effort to integrate immigrants, including teaching them English and U.S. history, a federal task force recommended Thursday. The report strongly emphasizes that immigrants must learn English in order to fully integrate into American society. Alfonso Aguilar, head of the U.S. Office of Citizenship, said immigrants [...]
For the ‘dilettante’ among you, World of Warcraft (also known by the acronym WoW) is a massively popular online multiplayer role-playing game, played by English teachers all around the World. In April of this year, it was estimated that WoW held more than 60% of the massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) market. Furthermore, with somewhere [...]
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