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Question: teaching English outside of Korea?
Chris Backe - AKA Chris in South Korea —
Authority: 468
Jenny writes asking the following: Hi Chris, Thanks for your blog. I really enjoy reading it. Ive actually been teaching in Korea for the past year. I just got back to the US, but I plan on returning to Korea for one more year. Ive been thinking about trying to teach in another country after that. ...1 day ago -
Teaching English As A Foreign Language In French Public And Private Schools
Degree Space —
Authority: 126
English is one of the world’s most common languages, spoken on every continent. Yet many countries close to home are falling behind those further afield in terms of the standard of English that students are taught. And now the President of France Nicholas Sarkozy has led an assault on the old fashioned and ...4 days ago -
Fugitive Uses Surgery To Change Looks
Sinlung —
Authority: 156
Police went to the hospital where the patient had a follow-up appointment Police in Japan have released a picture of a man suspected of murdering a British woman showing how he is now thought to look after plastic surgery. A man resembling Tatsuya Ichihashi recently had plastic surgery in Japan, according to news ...4 days ago -
I got a flu shot
Wheat-dogg's world —
Authority: 118
JISHOU, HUNAN — Today, while I was working on the computer in the office, my deans asked me if I would like to get a flu shot. That’s the way they phrased it, anyway. The real meaning, however, was, “We really expect you to get a flu shot. Today. With the rest of the staff.” But such directness is very ...4 days ago -
Losing my best students
TEFLtastic with Alex Case —
Authority: 122
Getting back to my paranoid fears of the last post (because a blog might be time consuming and pay nothing, but unlike seeing a therapist it’s free), there definitely does seem to be one kind of student I have lost more than others since I’ve been in this school. While I know the reason why, that hasn’t helped ...5 days ago -
Today’s commute by the numbers
China Hope Live —
Authority: 121
What a half-hour’s bike ride during Friday morning rush hour can get you in Tianjin: People who stared at me: 4 People who took no notice of me: hundreds Red lights: 8/11 (meaning I had to stop for 3) Buses I wanted to curse at: all of them, but 4 especially noxious ones in particular Groups of ...5 days ago -
H1N1 as a reason for cancelling classes
TEFLtastic with Alex Case —
Authority: 122
… or just an excuse? You have to wonder. That is, you have to wonder if you are always paranoid about your last performance class. Sorry- sometimes my AmDram lovey side and my TEFL teacher side seem very close indeed, and I expect all observation feedback to be “You were wonderful, dahling” to shore up my ...6 days ago -
What’s in a (Chinglish) name? I’ll tell you…
China Hope Live —
Authority: 121
I like that Chinese people sometimes choose unusual English names or transliterate their names into English (when they can), not because we get to laugh at the occasionally odd results (though that is fun), but because a good Chinglish name often contains some self-expression while still being workable in English ...1 week ago -
The Crucial Decision That Helped Me Thrive in a Recession
New Globals —
Authority: 108
Back in 1982, I had just returned to the US from a year-long study trip through Asia during my senior year in college. I’d had a fantastic experience in a dozen countries, I had some college loans to repay, and I was ready to go home and get a job. The economy had other ideas for me. This was during a terrible ...1 week ago -
Dictatory — Dictation + Story
Stopping to smell the roses —
Authority: 129
A novel approach for using dictations in the EFL classroom I got this idea from and ESL/EFL forum and tweaked it a bit for my classes A “dictatory” is a dictation that is a continuous short story that spread over 8-10 lessons depending on the length of each dictation (approximately 40-50 words). Instead of an ...1 week ago -
The KOTESOL International Conference
Buhay sa Korea —
Authority: 121
I didn’t update my blog for a week. No thanks to a very hectic schedule that occupied even my weekends. I was down with a cold last week that I was only able to attend the Sunday session of the KOTESOL International Conference. There I finally met Nhemskie who traveled all the way from Busan. [...]Related posts: ...1 week ago -
How did you end up in Korea? Part 1: Lost Luggage, Digestive Crackers, and David Letterman
Stopping to smell the roses —
Authority: 129
“I turned left at Japan.” When you decide to leave your country and travel halfway around the world to live and work-in my case to teach English in Korea-there are some things that you are never going to forget about your experience abroad and your life as an expat. It goes without saying that for every ...1 week ago -
Teach English in Thailand in 10 Days
Pattaya Hotels Booking and Travel Guide —
Authority: 132
If are a native English speaker with a college degree in ANY subject you can easily find work teaching in Bangkok within 10 days, just follow the steps below. Before You Leave: There are several things you’ll want to have in order before you leave to make your job search easier once you arrive in ...1 week ago -
Golly gosh, not Geos too??!
TEFLtastic with Alex Case —
Authority: 122
Two years after the demise of Nova, by far the biggest chain of Eikaiwa (English conversation) schools in Japan, rumours are that one of the remaining big three, Geos, is also showing signs of strain with late payment of wages, pressure on students to pay further and further ahead and massive branch closures planned- ...1 week ago -
Teaching English in a Foreign Country
Trifter —
Authority: 545
England used to be a world power, but that is something you’d find in history books by now. However, both countries have left their imprint on the world as we know it, and that’s why we find that English is still the most important language in the world, in terms of its use and by how many people speak it. ...2 weeks ago -
OMG – Japanese learn about internet acronyms and smileys
Japan Probe —
Authority: 651
An NTV news short about a promotional event for the release of “Gossip Girls” in Japan introduces some of the acronyms and emoticons used in English language mobile phone text messages: Their reporter visited Temple University’s Japan campus, where an American guy teaches them about “gr8″ and “b4.” ...2 weeks ago -
Playing around with kids at a Japanese school
Japundit - Published news —
Authority: 451
I was invited to teach English (along with some other foreigners) to the students, of grade-1 to grade-6, of the local Elementary School in Saijo (Higashi-Hiroshima). It was a day to remember. Whenever I visit to a school or see a school kid, I cant stop myself from going down into the memories of that special day...2 weeks ago -
Use all your talents when teaching
TEFLtastic with Alex Case —
Authority: 122
at the Idol Foreign Language Academy in Akihabara, Tokyo. Only in Japan…2 weeks ago -
All Quiet on the Eastern Front
Stopping to smell the roses —
Authority: 129
It’s 7:00pm on quiet Friday night in Daejeon, South Korea (for those of you not familiar with South Korea, Daejeon is about 100 miles south of Seoul)—quiet in that I am sitting alone in a classroom at the Woosong (pronounced oo-song ) Language Institute waiting for one or two students to show up for their 7-9 ...2 weeks ago -
What Is The JET Programme
Leanne Boyd - 1WebDiva.com —
Authority: 141
by Bill Williams Have you considered staying in Japan for a year or more? Many people share this dream because they long to understand the culture and long history of the Land of the Rising Sun. However Japan is a pricey place to live, and this is a difficult issue that seems to discourage many hopeful individuals. ...2 weeks ago
