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ytuque · Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 55

Can you rank these in terms of employability assuming equal academic qualifications?

1. British English speaker with CELTA
2. British English speaker with TEFL cert.
3. American/Canadian English speaker with CELTA
4. American/Canadian English speaker with TEFL cert.

I know a young 20-something who is trying to decide whether a CELTA is worth getting versus a more available TEFL. There is a big cost difference since CELTA is not available in her city, and she would have to relocate for 3 weeks. Also, what is the Turkish preference for British vs. American/Canadian English?

yaramaz · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:55 am Post subject:

I am a Canadian with a plain old 240 hour tefl certificate (also because there was no CELTA available anywhere even remotely near). I've been here 5 years, working for 3 different schools (a kolej, a university, and now a language school which does a lot of business courses in companies) and I've never felt that my nationality or certificate held me back.

Golightly · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:14 pm Post subject:

By TEFL cert., do you mean a Trinity (Trinity cert. in TEFL/ TESOL)qualification?
If so, then that is as valid as the Cambridge CELTA.
You should do some very careful research into any other kind of TEFL cert being offered, and the company doing the offering.

ytuque · Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 55

I went to the Trinity College website, and a Cert Tesol course is not shown as being available in the US.