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lingua · Joined: 15 Mar 2010 Posts: 3

Hi all!

I am new to the forum and new to TEFL. I have a Magister in Teaching German as a Foreign Language, minors include Education and Semitic Languages. I am bilingually fluent in English and German and recently got a TEFL certification (online). I am at the moment getting more TEFL certificates in Business English and Young Learners (all online).

I graduated in Feb 2008 and have had 16 months of working experience since then, of which 6 months were teaching English in a university environment. Then I was busy getting married and relocating to KSA so there was no recent employment since Jan 2009.

I am pretty strong in linguistics and foreign language acquisition. I published my Magister Thesis on that subject, for example.

I also happen to be new to KSA. My husband is an expat working here and I came here as his dependant.

Under these circumstances, what kind of job in the language/teaching area do you think I could get?
What should I negotiate in terms of salary?
And oh, I am located in Riyadh.

Thanks for sharing your experience!

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

With a Masters and the ability to teach German as well as English, and being located in Riyadh, you should contact the College of Translation at King Saud University.(Or is that men only ?) The Goethe Institute might also be interested in your services.

Cleopatra · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:24 pm Post subject:

kazazt · Joined: 15 Feb 2010 Posts: 164

Stop wasting your money on this online nonsense.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

c r a p

Can you use words like that here ?

Although I agree with the sentiments expressed.

lingua · Joined: 15 Mar 2010 Posts: 3

Thanks for the comments so far.

The Goethe Institut unfortunately doesn't have a branch in KSA, the only center in the Gulf is located in Abu Dhabi.

But the College of Translation at KSU sounds interesting.

kazazt · Joined: 15 Feb 2010 Posts: 164

doesnt equal -it is a travesty. It would not be a waste of money if you got a job out of it as you are likely to find out. You have no TEFL on your CV just a joke of a piece of paper that you could have made yourself.

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

What people are trying to say... though they are being a bit rude about it... is that few employers will recognize an online TEFL cert. Thus you are wasting your time and money to get a qualification that no one accepts.

What they are looking for is a qualification that includes supervised classroom teaching. Some of us had this with our first degree or MA... others pick this up with a recognized TEFL cert like the CELTA.

This is the problem that you may run into with employers in the Gulf... that said, the fact that you are already there can often overcome things like this. Apply around and see what happens.

VS