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Good Idea I think he should do this on this website. There are too many unsuspecting natives falling foul of these language schools in Turkey.

Thanks for the reply but I was already living in Turkey when I began in these schools. I actually went into the school to speak to them so how can you know they are bad schools this way? Like I said they feed you BS. Others I got from word of mouth in the area but I actually spoke to all the patrons...

Im a TEFL teacher returning to the UK this weekend. There has been new legislation regarding immigration. The government announced immigrants have to now be able to speak English if they wish to continue to live in the UK and so there will be a need for TEFL teachers. How would I find out how to get...

Further to my othe posts I was interviewed by a guy who runs NPL in Taxsim. This was another dubious set up. This guy does hypnposis on his students and natives are used for conversation. I noticed it was all guys there teaching. I went for an interview and so did my female friend and so did my othe...

I have 2 Turkish students that have to take the speaking part of the KET exam. Ive not had any training on this. Is there anyone on here who has any ideas or has done this with students? Need some help. To be specific I need help in knowing how to condense their question responses for the 8 to 10 mi...

I just want to warn native speakers thinking of teaching in Turkey that its not as easy as one might imagine. :( My first job was with Dilko in Bakirköy. One day I got sacked for no reason and so did another perfectly good and qualified Turkish teacher. We were gobsmacked when the manager trumped up...