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  • Bridging the gap between ESL and EFL: Using computer assisted language learning as a medium November 20, 2010
    Dr. Saad Al-Hashash discusses how the use of computer assisted language learning can bridge the pereived gaps between English as a second and English as a foreign language. 1. INTRODUCTION As Warschauer and Healey (1998) point out, computers have been used for language teaching since the 1960. However, the decision to integrate Computer Assisted Language [.. […]
  • The top 5 TEFL questions… Answered! November 9, 2010
    Are you thinking of teaching English abroad, but feel like you’ve got a gazillion questions swimming through your head? You’re not the only one! So, Emma Foers asked TEFL tutor James Jenkin, who has over 15 years’ experience, to answer people’s most common TEFL questions. Q) Which TEFL course should I do? A) There is […]
  • How a TEFL certificate can help you live and earn abroad October 30, 2010
    Louisa Walsh suggests how to get started in the TEFL profession. About TEFL There is an absolutely huge demand worldwide to learn English from a TEFL qualified native or near-native English speaking person. This enables thousands of teachers to live and earn abroad in their dream location. The first step into the industry is to […]
  • Popular movies – Teaching English online using scenes from YouTube October 21, 2010
    Websites like YouTube, notes Rowan Pita, have given us the capability of quickly and easily embedding videos into our own sites, blogs and through links. A great way to make teaching English online more creative, is to use this resource with students of any level as an online teaching tool. There are lots of different […]
  • Analysing teaching through student work October 20, 2010
    As a parent and a teacher educator, I am acutely aware of the need to “practice what you preach.” Yet, in both roles, I often find it a challenging axiom to carry out. When I warned my eldest child about the latest research on sleep deprivation, I resolved to make adequate sleep a priority in […]
  • Preparing mainstream teachers for English-language learners: is being a good teacher good enough? October 8, 2010
    Introduction More and more teachers find themselves teaching students from increasingly diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. In a recent report (National Center for Education Statistics, 2002), 42% of the teachers surveyed indicated that they had English Language Learners (ELLs) in their classroom, but only 12.5% of these teachers had received more t […]
  • Teaching English to prostitutes in China October 6, 2010
    By Robert Vance “Quite a few of your English students are prostitutes,” a friend told me today as she recounted a conversation that she had with her hair stylist recently. “The guy who cut my hair told me that many of your training center’s female students come to him two or three times a week […]
  • Without 1, where would we begin? Small sample research in educational settings September 29, 2010
    I study preservice teachers and the ways they attempt to make sense of method course instruction (theory) and real classroom applications (practice). Given the complexity of completing this task my chosen sample size has always been quite small. Coming out of graduate school, I actually thought that what I learned about qualitative research made sense. […]
  • Writing research papers… alternative options September 29, 2010
    Students are turning to alternative methods to solve their time management dilemmas. Employing the services of online research paper sites is becoming an ever more popular solution. Students have a heavy load of work to complete for which they have to study day-and-night, in addition to attending supplementary studies in order to achieve high grades. […]
  • TEFL training courses – accreditation and certification September 15, 2010
    Every TEFL teacher training course should be accredited with “accredited” meaning that an outside institution has reviewed the course, course content and the trainers delivering the course. Accreditation is important for teachers looking to enroll because it is a way of telling that the TEFL course meets a minimum of standards with regards to curriculum [... […]

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What are the Requirements for English Language Teachers?

By Ron Edwards So you believe you have what it takes to be one of the many English language teachers around? You should know that English language teachers are not all of one type – there are differences between English language teachers (just like in other occupations). Types of English language teachers 1. EFL – [...]

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November 15th, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: Advice, Getting started in TEFL, Ron Edwards, TEFL Acronyms | Leave a comment

An Acronym By Any Other Name

By Brenda Townsend Hall I don’t know about you but I loathe acronyms. Yes, I know they have a convenience factor but they also seem to me to be potentially sinister, redolent of George Orwell’s Newspeak. Our field has its fair share of them and woe betide anyone who uses one wrongly. Never, for example, [...]

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August 25th, 2008 | Tags: | Category: Brenda Townsend Hall, Discussion, TEFL Acronyms | 4 comments
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