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winterwawa
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 Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 5:23 am Post subject: TEFL / CELTA certificates - required? |
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| I have seen a lot of ads that require a TEFL, or CELTA certificate. Is that absolutely required everywhere in China? I have a MA in TESOL and 12 years teaching experience. Do I really need those certificates? |
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therock
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| Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 8:05 am Post subject: |
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Rooster_2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 1:13 pm Post subject: Re: TEFL / CELTA certificates - required? |
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| winterwawa wrote: |
| I have seen a lot of ads that require a TEFL, or CELTA certificate. Is that absolutely required everywhere in China? I have a MA in TESOL and 12 years teaching experience. Do I really need those certificates? |
No.
In terms of specific TEFL qualifications, there's a hierarchy, and any item on this hierarchy makes everything before it obsolete:
1. Absolutely nothing
2. Online TEFL cert
3. Budget on-site TEFL cert
4. Cambridge CELTA or CELTYL/Trinity CTEFLA
5. Cambridge DELTA
6. MA TESOL
7. MA Applied Linguistics
8. PhD in any TEFL- or applied linguistics-related field |
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winterwawa
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| Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks Rooster. Appreciate the low down |
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