ELT World News

World: 7 Tips to being a TESOL teacher

david — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:13:03 +0000

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 more on becoming a TESOL teacher have a look at these top tips:

Learn any acronym, jargon, and anything related to TESOL
Find information on TESOL career opportunities.
Be qualified.
Choose a school that you are in your interest.
Catch up with current technology and engage it in your teaching.
Deal with the culture shock.
Make friends with the local people.

World: ESL students turn to essay writing services

david — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:02:14 +0000

Essay writing is capable of turning your student years into a monotonous and challenging time of life. Custom Essay Order is an essay writing service that assists students in terms of decreasing the scholastic encumbrance. Students desire more than enough time to be engaged in supplementary activities other than course work. Except for opening up extra time for students, online essay writing services are becoming increasingly popular as they are offering a degree of assurance in terms of academic success.

A key factor in the proliferation of essay writing services like Custom Essay Order is the ever increasing number of students studying in English medium universities: writing services are delivered by experienced English writing professionals. These writers are accomplished in giving the type of assistance that speakers of other languages need when preparing their written work in English. Such students have a model of academic English, written by an expert, from which to develop their ideas.

Importantly, freelance paper writers must be zealous, imaginative and have outstanding writing skills as far as following a line of investigation, use of language, organizational skills and their dexterity in document formatting are concerned. Custom Essay Order delivers papers that are tailored to individual needs and prerequisites. They always take into account specific specifications.

Inventiveness and creativity are fundamental considerations in academic essay writing. For these reasons, Custom Essay Order ensures that they offer unique freelance writing services. Each piece of writing starts from scratch and papers are put up against sophisticated plagiarism detection software. This service also has a sturdy quality control department who verify that the work is both original and not imitative in any way. Deadlines are a major ingredient in the levels of stress students have to deal with in their academic environment.

Another reason for the widespread success of online essay writing services like Custom Essay Order is that the primary goal is making sure that a customer’s needs are met.

South Korea: Seoul to let all native English speaking teachers go by 2014

david — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 06:52:52 +0000

YTN reports that Seoul plans to gradually sack all native English speaking instructors teaching English at elementary, middle and high schools throughout the city by 2014.

A Seoul Metropolitan Council official said according to a poll, students and parents preferred Korean instructors fluent in English over native speakers, and that the council plans to slash Seoul Office of Education’s budget for personnel costs for native speakers. In the next fiscal year, the city plans to reduce the 30 billion won budget for native speakers by 4.9 billion won; it appears 707 native speakers—57% of the 1,245 total—will leave their schools.

UK: Is coding ‘the new Latin’?

david — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:04:52 +0000

The campaign to boost the teaching of computer skills – particularly coding – in schools is gathering force.

Today the likes of Google, Microsoft and other leading technology names will lend their support to the case made to the government earlier this year in a report called Next Gen. BBC News notes that the UK government argued that the UK could be a global hub for the video games and special effects industries – but only if its education system got its act together.

The statistics on the numbers going to university to study computing make sobering reading. In 2003 around 16,500 students applied to UCAS for places on computer science courses.

Worldwide: 2nd language students turn to essay writing services

david — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:18:52 +0000

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 flow of ideas in their 5-paragraph essay improved upon. Although some question the ethics of these websites, custom essay writing services generally have their customers’ best interests at heart. For instance, they deliver according to the precise directives of the individual customer.

For the student who is not a fluent English speaker, these services provide valuable help in the composing of a response essay, irrespective of how multifaceted or multifarious the topic might be. What is more, custom essay writing sites guarantee to meet your deadline. Those services do not meet customer satisfaction quickly go out of business in this cutthroat niche of the education market. So, essay writing services are not merely a collection of recycled papers for, say, your art essay from con artists who, while seemingly getting paid to do complete your homework, are actually ruining you academically.

The best of these websites are devoted to contributing high quality essays that are plagiarism free. Discretion regarding the customer’s requirements is of paramount consideration to effective essay writing sites. Aside from privacy, the better writing services also make room for applicable amendment appeals from the student.

Why use an essay writing service?

david — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:08:55 +0000

To be able to get high-quality grades and keep away from humiliation and chastisement, students need to write non-plagiarized essays. Illegal use of another’s work is a fundamental academic crime and people can and will be harshly punished – to the extent of being thrown out of their academic institution.

Basically, if you’re a student, don’t plagiarize an essay because your educator will be aware of it immediately. We all know that making inquiries and then getting down to writing is not always straightforward, so a lot of companies have been set up to deliver brand new essays for those who wish to use their services. It is easy now to buy custom essays online.

Some of these companies might offer you a free original essay, but don’t be fooled by this. You will probably be tempted to buy custom term papers and turn them in to your teacher. However, a large amount of these freebies are not brand new, unique essays.

You will find that such documents will only ever lead to your ultimate failure. Order from a company that writes original works and you will at least get a non-plagiarized piece of work. Look for companies that use writers who possess excellence in research and writing skills. If you have overcome the ethical dilemma of paying for someone to do your writing and are ready to buy essay papers online, make sure you don’t go to a company whose writers directly copy information without referencing, more than ever if your topic is multifaceted in nature.

Berlitz eyes expansion of online lessons after Japanese earthquake

david — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:11:03 +0000

Japan: Teaching-English-in-Japan-Education-Yukako Yukako Uchinaga, CEO of Berlitz has cited worried teachers leaving Japan and the threat of blackouts as having had a significant effect on the language school operator’s business immediately following the March 11th earthquake, with 40% of its teachers becoming unavailable. She noted that the Bennesse subsidiary has consequently realized “the need to change how we offer lessons”.

Speaking to the Nikkei Marketing Journal, Uchinaga commented that online lessons “had little support within Berlitz before the disaster. [Classroom-based lesson] are important, of course, but as we were forced to close classrooms after the quake, many of our employees realized the importance of having another teaching style”.

Language Testing Rules Criticized as Unrealistic

david — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:18:57 +0000

Tennessee – US: Shuler Pelham spent Wednesday morning trying to explain to a 15-year-old Mexican boy why he should come to school. The teen arrived in Nashville in March, attended one week at Overton High in August and then disappeared. A truancy court ordered him back to Overton.

Read more on this here.

DODEA teachers step into war zone to teach English to Afghans

david — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:33:12 +0000

Afghanistan & Japan: When Pamela Tucker last deployed to Iraq, she wore a uniform and carried a weapon. On her current deployment to Afghanistan, notes Stars and Stripes website, she’s armed only with the language course curriculum that she uses to teach Afghans English.

Tucker, a Department of Defense Education Activity teacher from Misawa Air Base, Japan, leads a small team of Civilian Expeditionary Workforce employees who teach Afghan military, police and government employees at oftentimes Spartan locations across the country.

Iran: ILI to host conference on ELT in the Islamic world

david — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:45:37 +0000

Forget TESOL Arabia (which apparently doesn’t occur annually in the Islamic world)!

The Iran Language Institute (ILI), one of the leading language teaching centers in Iran, will hold the First Conference on ELT in the Islamic World from December 1st to 3rd in Tehran, notes the Tehran Times.

The objective of this conference is to enhance the understanding of English language training and the use of ELT theories in second language classes by practitioners and further develop its relationship with other disciplines such as discourse analysis, inter-language pragmatics, and sociolinguistics.