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  • 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 such demand [...] […]
  • 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 take a [...] […]
  • Popular movies – Teaching English online using scenes from YouTube October 20, 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 […]
  • 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 to [...] […]
  • 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. A [...] […]
  • 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 [...] […]
  • International TESOL training and EFL contexts: the cultural disillusionment factor. September 14, 2010
    Md. Raqibuddin Chowdhury’s article reports on a study examining the implementation of communicative language teaching (CLT) in Bangladesh in general and at the University of Dhaka in particular. When CLT was first introduced across Europe, the English as a foreign language (EFL) context in which it would inevitably be applied was not considered. Here univers […]

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How a TEFL certificate can help you live and earn abroad

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 take a [...]

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October 30th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Advice, Benefits of certificates, Louisa Walsh | 3 comments

5 Things You Must Check Before Choosing a Tefl Course

By Lisa Walker
Unfortunately there has never been one single regulatory body for the TEFL industry. Right now there are numerous TEFL schools springing up everywhere, all claiming that their course is better than the rest or, that they offer the most accredited TEFL certificate. It can be a daunting task trying to select the right [...]

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December 9th, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: Advice, Benefits of certificates, Getting started in TEFL, Lisa Walker | 2 comments
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