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World: 7 Tips to being a TESOL teacher

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The great thing of being a TESOL teacher, notes Rida Afrilyasanti, is to know and explore other countries, recognize and experience different cultures and people while still earning money.

This path of career, suggests the EFL (English as a Foreign Language) website, really offers you unique rewards and challenges. Thus, to make you ready [...]

Worldwide: 2nd language students turn to essay writing services

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Essay writing services seem to be the ray of light at the end of the tunnel for non-native students whose language isn’t English and are inefficient in grammar. Any student taking their first steps in an English-medium university has, through such online services, an opportunity to have their grammatical errors, sentence construction, and their [...]

Russia: Kicked out of school?

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Moscow’s City Duma has suggested an amendment to a new law that would require all teachers to apply for work permits… in addition to the work visas which currently allow them to teach here. Also, according to the amendment’s author, Tatyana Potyayeva, the deputy head of the City Duma’s Science and Education committee, the [...]

United Kingdom: English teaching ‘outstanding’ at Challney Boys

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A school where more than 40 different languages are spoken by pupils has just been commended by the ever reliable Ofsted for its ‘outstanding’ English teaching. At Challney Boys School nearly all of the pupils are from ethnic minorities and 86 percent don’t have English as their first language.

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‘One-answer’ IELTS comes under scrutiny

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United Kingdom: Academia’s leading language exam has won favour among immigration authorities, but that could be about to change if calls for more diversity in assessment gain a hearing, reports Max de Lotbinière at the Guardian. With international student mobility has booming in recent years, so has the number of candidates taking the Ielts [...]

Pearson purchases English teaching business in China

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United Kingdom & China: UK publishing group Pearson is buying Wall Street English, one of China’s top English language-training companies, for $145 million (in cash) to cement its position in a critical growth market, according to Reuters. Pearson, the world’s biggest educational publisher, will combine Wall Street English’s training centres for adults in seven [...]

British Council launches portfolio of newservices at TESOL Arabia 2009 – Dubai

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United Kingdom and UAE: Those loveable rogues the British Council, the world’s infamously largest English language teaching organisation, has launched a range of new global English teaching and learning services, debuting the new services in the UAE, at the TESOL Arabia 15th annual International Conference which concluded on 14 March.

These new services, [...]

Tunisia to launch English language teaching reform project

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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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British Council marks 10 years in Sharjah

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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 [...]

India ‘Cascades’ Skills to Close Language Gap

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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 [...]

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