Here is a lovely post from the forum that I want to share with you all, courtesy of sollettspain:
I have a class of 10/11 year olds at elementary level. I teach them twice a week for an hour at a time. I find the behaviour management by far the most difficult thing with this class. [...]
Here are some recent TEFL headlines from around the region.
South Korea: Language education ’starts in the womb’
Bilingual education starts from womb, a research team led by Krista Byers-Heinlein and Janet Werker from the University of British Columbia claims to have found. The researchers compared the reactions of newborn babies whose mothers are monolingual in English [...]
You might be surprised. Click here to read the thread on the ELT World forums. Note that there is probably a difference between ‘live’ and ’scrape by on a TEFL wage’.
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To reiterate what I was saying in part one, teaching is wonderful job and I can’t imagine ever wanting to do something else. As I noted, teaching can be a rewarding and invigorating career, but it can also be arduous, daunting and strenuous. Today’s part two is once again dedicated to all those of you [...]
Let’s face it, teaching is bloody great and I can’t imagine ever wanting to leave this profession to do something else. Yep, the post title was an attention grabber; I’m not planning on leaving TEFL any time soon. Nevertheless, not everyone is me. While teaching can be a satisfying and stimulating career, it can also [...]
Picture this scene, if you will:
‘It all started with a Halloween party at a bar in 2004. Most everyone was wearing a risque costume; the women were showing a lot of skin.
Many foreign English teachers attended. When the photographs made their way to the internet, the English teachers were blamed. Critics objected to the revealing [...]
Two Professors faced the task of teaching English to members of the national police force when they went to Colombia last summer. Their task was to teach English to about 100 members of the national police force for six weeks. Dr. Keith Terry, a UNK professor, noted;
‘They’re working more and more with the American military. [...]
The Malaysian Government’s decision not to continue teaching Science and Mathematics in English does not mean the language is being neglected, at least that’s what the Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin claims.
A number of new initiatives are being planned to upgrade the teaching of English in schools and to strengthen the command of [...]
Alex Case has just written about graded readers and how to effectively review them, and it brought up something that has been a pet hate of mine for many years. I replied in some detail to his post, but I’ll go over the main problem I have with readers again here (thus plagiarizing myself).
Basically, I [...]
The ever wonderful Martin McMorrow has just shared the following statistics concerning the demographic profile of Celta candidates on the ELT World forum:
26% of candidates were over 40, 10% of these were over 50 and 2.5% over 60
68% of candidates had English as their first language and this means for 32% English is not [...]
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