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| Australia |
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3% |
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| Canada |
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10% |
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| New Zealand |
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4% |
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| South Africa |
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0% |
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| United Kingdom |
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29% |
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| United States (of America) |
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45% |
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| Other Anglophone Country |
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2% |
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| Non Anglophone Country |
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2% |
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LongShiKong
Joined: 28 May 2007
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Location: China
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bridgetc: Sorry about the ambiguity in my comment. I completely understood what you meant by 'active recruiting' and I'm glad you enjoy TEFL as much as I do and I can appreciate why you may feel that way about Mexico--I had the good fortune to teach some wonderful Mexicans and S. Americans in Vancouver.
I just found it strange that more than any other overseas region, England had the most recruiters at our on-campus B.Ed career fair a year ago--no doubt, it's the low salary and job satisfaction because England's unemployment, I believe exceeds Canada's. I've heard that if you can survive a London classroom, you can survive anywhere. Therefore, it's not surprising that those wishing to teach in the UK might choose TEFL or int'l schools--hence the disproportionate number of UK TEFLers: this poll shows 30% whereas the UK makes up only 14% of the world's English speaking population based on my previous post.
At the previous American-owned private school I worked for, some of the most senior foreigner staff were from England. Nothing sinister about them. |
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ayisha881
Joined: 28 Feb 2011
Posts: 9
Location: USA
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm from the USA. |
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johntpartee
Joined: 02 Mar 2010
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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| I wasn't expecting a big surprise when I put in my two cents. I didn't get one. Precisely what I expected. About half from the good ole USA. |
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LongShiKong
Joined: 28 May 2007
Posts: 1082
Location: China
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 2:27 am Post subject: |
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| LongShiKong wrote: |
I did a rough calculation based on current pop stats. As I suspected, and especially given the fact at least a 1/3 of Canadians are not native English speakers, it makes Canada the most overly represented country in TEFL and possibly in int'l school teaching.
USA: 312,833,000 = 72% (of the total of these 5)
UK: 62,300,000 = 14%
Can: 34,605,346 = 8%
Aus: 22,800,812 = 5%
NZ: 4,432,800 = 1% |
But by my estimate, our current poll figure of 45% US representation is roughly 25% less than the US's % of the English-speaking world. Anyone care to speculate on this? |
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Perilla
Joined: 09 Jul 2010
Posts: 792
Location: Hong Kong
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:09 am Post subject: |
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| LongShiKong wrote: |
| But by my estimate, our current poll figure of 45% US representation is roughly 25% less than the US's % of the English-speaking world. Anyone care to speculate on this? |
US citizens are less inclined to travel overseas - only 30% have passports. In terms of overseas travel/work potential, this effectively reduces the US population to about 94 million - more or less in line with our little survey. |
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LongShiKong
Joined: 28 May 2007
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:08 am Post subject: |
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| LongShiKong wrote: |
| US citizens are less inclined to travel overseas - only 30% have passports. |
That's probably the same for Canadians, or at least until Homeland Security made border crossings feel more like immigration interviews. |
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LongShiKong
Joined: 28 May 2007
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:08 am Post subject: |
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| Perilla wrote: |
| US citizens are less inclined to travel overseas - only 30% have passports. |
That's probably the same for Canadians, or at least until Homeland Security made border crossings feel more like immigration interviews. |
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spiral78
Joined: 05 Apr 2004
Posts: 11534
Location: On a Short Leash
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Actually, I found stats that indicate 53% of Canadians own passports. They do go places other than the US....and I think they are very strongly represented in the TEFL works, despite the overall many fewer numbers of Canadians who exist 
(There are 'only' about 33.5 million Canadians, so it would see that they TEFL at far higher rates than USAisns do).
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Isla Guapa
Joined: 19 Apr 2010
Posts: 1520
Location: Mexico City o sea La Gran Manzana Mexicana
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| spiral78 wrote: |
| Actually, I found stats that indicate 53% of Canadians own passports. They do go places other than the US....and I think they are very strongly represented in the TEFL works, despite the overall many fewer numbers of Canadians who exist |
Thinking about my TEFL friends and colleagues in Mexico City, most of them are Canadian. |
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etoile
Joined: 01 Sep 2007
Posts: 34
Location: Mexico City
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm from Ireland. So far there's only 3 votes for "other anglophone countries", I'm curious to know where the other 2 voters are from! |
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Perilla
Joined: 09 Jul 2010
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Location: Hong Kong
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 4:30 am Post subject: |
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| Isla Guapa wrote: |
| Thinking about my TEFL friends and colleagues in Mexico City, most of them are Canadian. |
When I worked in Korea (back in '97-'99) I was surprised at the number of Canadians - IMO certainly representing the highest proportion of TEFLers there at that time. Waaaay more Canadians than Brits for sure. I'd be interested to know if this has changed since. |
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LongShiKong
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spiral78
Joined: 05 Apr 2004
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Location: On a Short Leash
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks - it would be interesting to have a larger base of data. |
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