I’m a dosser. I’m lazy. I procrastinate. Just ask Alex Case, who has been waiting for me to answer his interview questions for at least 6 months now. If I can get away with not doing something, I will. The one thing I truly have any energy for in life is the pursuit of avoiding [...]
Another phenomenal guest piece by Will Pearson, this time using his own handouthub.com as inspiration.
Intelligent handout matching, where an online database of TEFL/ESL handouts are matched for use with leading English course books, is where TEFL/ESL supplementation is heading in the future. This article highlights the case study of Handout Hub, which matches over one [...]
It’s headlines like this that make you feel like you’re fighting a losing battle. English-language worksheets featuring bloody Ronald McDonald, extolling the virtues of fast food, is being used by some Swedish schools, ‘to the chagrin of educators, outraging some parents, and apparently ‘unbeknownst’ to the company‘ according to newspaper Svenska Dagsbladet.
The paper, as [...]
Good news for all mountain lovers. The U.S. Embassy-sponsored ‘English by Radio program’ went on air as of December 25th, on Radio Sagarmatha. The 52-segment (whatever that may be) English language program is produced by this community FM radio station, in collaboration with Nepal English Language Teachers’ Association (NELTA), you’ll be delighted to know.
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A non-profit social club in downtown Jing’an District is calling for expats to join them and provide free English lessons for poor children in the community because the English school they planned to work with has been closed. Bless.
The social club, named Sunday Youth but known bizarrely as the Good Man Club among young people [...]
Cor blimey, guvnor:
“Young people are growing up with a new form of composite language. It’s a bit cockney, a bit West Indian, a bit West African, with some Bangladeshi and Kuwaiti – and it seems to be replacing traditional cockney.”
This is the flabbergasted view of Paul Kerswill, professor of sociolinguistics at Lancaster University, who has [...]
South Korea: In an intriguing news item from the Korea Times, a labour union, comprised of native English teachers working for a hagwon (Korean language institute), has been established in Incheon, with representation from a legal expert on labour.
Amazingly, well, for me anyway, this is the second teachers’ union in the country, the first [...]
Thank you to the ever wonderful EFL Geek, from whom I’m blatantly stealing this…
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A fantastic guest piece on the perils of the TEFL job ad by Will Pearson:
Few professions in the world have such a unified online job market. Schools now see the Internet as the first place to advertise, while a great many teachers look for jobs, and are hired online. In this article we look frankly [...]
When you’ve been in the profession for a few years you might find yourself going for a big job in a location like the Gulf, and, more often than not, the actual selection process goes through a recruitment agency operating far away from your potential employer. You probably won’t want to screw up your chance [...]
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