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[reddevil79]

Hi,

Does anyone know where one could find facts and figures related to the TEFL industry? I have been scouring the web for days and have very little to show for my efforts Any links to websites with statistics would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[reddevil79]

In response to my own query (!?), The British Council has published an interesting book entitled 'English Next'. An interesting read for all those involved in teaching English.

http://www.britishcouncil.org/learning-research-englishnext.htm?mtklink=learnng-research-english-next

[Guy Courchesne]

I hear Matt is a fountain of stats...

Why, he once told me that 34.7% of all TEFLers, once asked, admitted to having jaywalked at least once in their lives.

[lozwich]

[RyanS]

[geaaronson]

I have a dear friend who not only has never jaywalked in her lifetime but she always goes to the street corner to make her way across the street.
She is an art teacher, though. Can`t include her in the 63% fold.

[M@tt]

don't jaywalk in germany. 3 times out of 7 you will be ticketed.
a parallel statistic: 3 out of 7 ESL teachers are well-adjusted, fully functioning adults.

[RyanS]

Jay Walking saves weeks of my life to later wasted.

[Ben Round de Bloc]

I think many times it's probably safer to jay-walk in the middle of a block than to cross at an intersection. For one thing, at intersections cars can zip around a corner and get you, while in the middle of a block, you have a decent chance to see them coming. Also, when there's a traffic police person directing traffic from the middle of an intersection, the hand signals aren't coordinated with the traffic lights. The cop motions drivers to go while the light signals drivers to stop and vice versa. Half the people watch the person directing traffic, the other half watch the traffic lights, and pedestrians are pretty much on their own to try to get across the street without becoming a hood ornament.

[ls650]

Isn't jay-walking the sort of thing that depends on the time and place? There are some places where it's perfectly fine to jay-walk, and other places where it isn't.

[MELEE]

Speaking of crossing the street, has anyone seen the new cross walk lights in Oaxaca City? They have an animated person who looks to be running (not walking) and below that a count down of the number of seconds until the light changes to red. I remeber being indoctrinated as a child to never run while crossing the street. These lights are like they are saying "�Correle!"

[Ben Round de Bloc]

New lights in downtown Merida, too, but they aren't animated. Just a little stick figure of a person that changes colors and flashes ( ) when it's about to change. No countdown timer, but then people here know that if they don't move it right along, they're going to get caught in the middle of the street when the little stick figure flashes at them for about 3 seconds and then changes color.

[Guy Courchesne]

[some waygug-in]

I guess my whole TEFL career can be summed up as one big "jay walk" then.

He was always a quiet and polite boy.....he should have known better.

[tonydicer]

Too much time on your hands, Guy