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ble21ach



Joined: 08 Feb 2007
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:21 am    Post subject: Question regarding TEFL Reply with quote

What should I get? TEFL for business or TEFL for children. I will be getting the TEFL for adult too. I have to pick between business and children. Thank you.

Don't make any remark regarding why TEFL is not necessary. It is because I want to get the working permit in VN. thanks for your time.
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ChuckECheese



Joined: 28 Jul 2006
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It doesn't really matter which tefl you get. Just flip a coin and decide. Laughing

And good luck in getting your WP.
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Mr Wind-up Bird



Joined: 22 Sep 2004
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You have to pick between business & children? What Mickey Mouse training centre are you attending?
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ChuckECheese



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mr Wind-up Bird wrote:
You have to pick between business & children? What Mickey Mouse training centre are you attending?


In my opinion, all TEFL, TESOL, CELTA courses are all BS courses designed to make money and all you're doing is paying for the certificate.
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slug93



Joined: 07 Jan 2006
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:22 pm    Post subject: TEFL Reply with quote

I've found my TEFL class good for THREE things!

1) learning how to write a lesson plan for class from scratch.

2) how to explain things(grammer/words/etc.,) using pictures/examples and hand motions! HAHA

3) live practice with real students

If you have no experience teaching, then a TEFL is a good place to start PLUS getting one in the city or country you want to teach helps get that first job alot easier.

When you teach at a school, most school give you a book and you just follow the book and add something of your own into the lesson. Also, if you teach as a "native-english" teacher then the schools use you for "speaking/pronuciation" lessons. So your classes emphasis those skills more than reading or writing(which is suppose to be taught be the VN teacher). So you find yourself teaching LESS grammer, which i personally find interesting to teach.
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Mr Wind-up Bird



Joined: 22 Sep 2004
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The basic 4-week CELTA/Trinity course is just that - basic. You only start learning to teach once you actually start teaching. The centre I did mine at is one of the best and most respected training and TEFL centres in the UK - excellent tutors, a very professional Trinity course - but even they passed people who shouldn't be allowed within 20 miles of a classroom.

Basically it's all about money. The industry charges you to get a certificate in the first place, then the only way you can get promoted is not by doing a good job, but by paying more money & doing the DELTA.
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