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Rt · Joined: 02 Jan 2011 Posts: 14 Location: India

I'm an Indian hoping to teach English abroad. I have a degree in Mass Media and 4 years' experience as a journalist. I plan on doing CELTA soon.
I have a couple of queries:
Are Indians welcome to teach English in Japan?
Will a good CELTA grade be enough?

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

Rt · Joined: 02 Jan 2011 Posts: 14 Location: India

I hope to teach children or young adults. I'd happy to update my skills with DELTA once I gain a footing.

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

So, eikaiwa or ALT (or maybe business English)?

baki · Joined: 29 Dec 2010 Posts: 72

Are you a native speaker? How's your accent?

Students tend to follow their teachers' style and accents so they might not want an Indian accent.

gwynnie86 · Joined: 27 Apr 2009 Posts: 159

You don't need CELTA but you need a university degree... unless you can somehow get a working visa and find enough private students once you're here to fund your lifestyle. There are a lot of Indians in Hamamatsu but they're all engineers from what I gather... hmmm... the big ALT companies (JET, Interac) only hire from certain countries... I think you have to be living in one of them (USA, Canada, UK, Australia, NZ, South Africa, Jamaica?) and to have been in English education for at least 12 or 13 years... some companies won't mind about nationality, though, as long as your English is good... maybe Berlitz (I think some Brazilians work for them), there's a private language school called FISK in Hamamatsu, you just have to look around...

elliot79 · Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Posts: 14

I'm 2nd generation Pakistani, born and bred in England and I'm living and working in Himeji. *touch wood* no problems, the people are friendly and my employers are great. Having said that, my employer did spend 3 years in England, so he has an understanding of multi-culturalism.