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ced0802
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 Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:51 pm Post subject: teaching english as a second language |
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Hi everybody ,
I'm french and i'm really fond of english and i would like to teach it abroad as a second language.However i don t know how to manage to do this..I heard about CELTA , or certTESOL ,but it s not really clear for me ..And my english level is medium..Is there some school to prepare to those exam?
What can i do?Is there some french who have done this before?Who teach english abroad?
I really need your help
I m looking forward reading your answers
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SueH
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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Location: Northern Italy
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| Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:22 am Post subject: |
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Why not teach French in an anglophone country whilst improving your English? I had an Italian colleague when I was teaching Italian at evening class in the UK who went on to teach English at a private college and now I believe teaches at an Aussie university. I think she did the CELTA at some stage, but only after she'd been in the UK some time studying and improving her English.
We had some interesting drink fuelled multi-lingual conversations and discussions on language (with a Swiss-French colleague as well) which really helped us all. To give an example she asked me the difference between 'manky' and 'grotty' and ISTR 'grubby'...  |
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Chris_Crossley
Joined: 26 Jun 2004
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Location: Still in the centre of Furnace City, PRC, after eight years!!!
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| Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 4:18 pm Post subject: Non-native speakers of English gaining TESOL certificates |
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| SueH wrote: |
| I had an Italian colleague when I was teaching Italian at evening class in the UK who went on to teach English at a private college and now I believe teaches at an Aussie university. I think she did the CELTA at some stage, but only after she'd been in the UK some time studying and improving her English. |
When I was studying part-time for my Trinity Certificate in TESOL during the 2000-01 academic year at an adult education centre in the Medway Towns in Kent, England, one of my fellow students turned out to be a tutor of Italian, who had been in England for at least 15 years (having married an Englishman), but still spoke with a very strong Italian accent and consistently made grammar mistakes in both her oral and written English.
She did, through sheer persistence (resisting the temptation several times to drop out of the programme), gain her Certificate in TESOL at the end of the course, though she was still teaching Italian (but not English) at the same centre two years later when I dropped in on her one evening shortly after completing my first two-year stint in China.
Hence, it is certainly possible for non-native speakers of English to gain a certificate to teach English as a second or foreign language, yet there is no guarantee whatsoever of employment as an ESOL teacher afterwards. |
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Englishish
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| Most jobs that I see advertised on the internet ask for native speakers. Other ask for native or near-native speakers. I think it would be much harder to get jobs if your English is 'medium'. I think Sue is right - look into teaching French. Perhaps you could use that time in an English speaking country to improve your English and get teaching experience at the same time before going on to do a CELTA. 2 birds, 1 stone! Seems like a good step forward! |
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