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[Sashadroogie]

As I have said, repeatedly, Celta centres DO turn down people if their English knowledge level is not up to snuff. That is tested for. And not just non-native speakers of English.

Cripes! See what I mean about people who just cannot seem to take on board basic info?

[Sashadroogie]

[buravirgil]

Thanks for that clarification, John.

Swan? That Krashen hating hack? Let me lay out something here. The university system of the United States is a formidable magog of research because no matter what the topic, hundreds of institutions turn their departments to feverishly publish behind paywalls and skirt peer review, appropriate the work of women researchers and threaten their agency, refuse health coverage to adjunct professors to ask but one question: Will it make money?

But I don't like Swan anyway.

[buravirgil]

[buravirgil]

[VietCanada]

[johnslat]

Dear VietCanada,

" . . . it seems convenient that CELTA can't turn anyone down . . ."

You are reading this thread, right?

"I am thinking of taking CELTA, but I have applied once before and got rejected .. and now I am thinking of applying again."

http://teachingenglishinaforeignland.blogspot.com/2012/04/5-reasons-to-do-celta.html

"After attempting to enroll in San Francisco, near where I lived, I was promptly rejected on the basis of two factors. One was a lower than average test score for their entrance exam (despite all my years of being a published author and teaching History and Science, apparently I wasn't schooled well enough in all the nuances of English Grammar) in order to do that well with their test; the other was overcrowding of the class."

http://teflchiangmai.blogspot.com/2011/08/considering-celta-personal-quest.html

"1. If a CELTA center accepts a lot of unsuitable candidates, this will be picked up by the Cambridge assessor who visits each course, and the situation will be investigated. In my experience, it is very rare for CELTA centers to knowingly accept unsuitable candidates.

2. I think you will find that pretty much all TESOL training centers, including those in colleges and universities, have a clause allowing them to cancel courses if they don't have enough participants or for other reasons. "

http://www.eslcafe.com/discussion/dz1/index.cgi?read=1408936778

"Relish:
Hi everybody

I am an non native student with masters in English Literature, Now I was looking for CELta but my application has been rejected saying that the answers I wrote in application form were not up to the standard. Can somebody hepl me as I m from literarture background."

http://www.englishforums.com/English/EnrollingInCelta/xhdzp/post.htm

Regards,
John

[Sashadroogie]

Sashadroogie wrote:
As I have said, repeatedly...
I understand that, but what did you say?



That something mysterious happens to the human brain once enrolled on a Celta course. All ability to process oral or written info shuts down. Only vast amounts of repetition from trainers can ever hope to overcome this massive learning handicap, and even then some trainees may never get past their own over-inflated opinions of how superb they are in a classroom. Even after they limp across the finish line and collect a bare minimum pass, awarded for reasons that no angry trainee ever enquires too deeply into, for fear of learning they might have almost failed.

[Sashadroogie]

Anyway... The point is... That it is simply preposterous that Celta trainers' qualifications are being called into question by the very people who nearly failed the course, or by those here who have never taken one. The former usually fail or have to withdraw because they show no ability to implement any the principles of the input sessions. The latter because they know next to nothing about the course except what they have heard from bitchy potty-mouths.

Blame the trainers - of course! That makes perfect sense.

[buravirgil]

Everything I learned about the CELTA came from a manual downloaded from the Internet. This one guy? He took it to a printer's shop and had it bound.

[VietCanada]

[johnslat]

Dear VietCanada,

"Don't you dare make a bad impression on the trainer."

Probably not a good idea for any student, anywhere, on any teacher.

Regards,
John

[nomad soul]

[spiral78]

This thread has devolved into an effort by people

1. who've never taken a CELTA
and/or
2. one furry remnant who took a substandard CTEFLA a decade and a half ago

to drive those of us who actually know something about the course mad.

I'm outta here. Off to train some more teachers. Generate more positive evaluations from new teachers - and from their students (actually track student evaluations of our teachers, by the way).

[spiral78]