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explorer25 · Joined: 18 Jul 2004 Location: Korea

I checked the website but Seoul is not listed as one of the locations...
any ideas?? Crying or Very sad

i wanna start in January....

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

What TEFL?

There is the Sookmyung University program, but it's maybe 3.5 million won. Not sure when it starts.

What are your reasons for doing the TEFL?

explorer25 · Joined: 18 Jul 2004 Location: Korea

I 'd like to get the certificate...TESOL TEFL...is it not the same thing?? Shocked

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

Yeah, basically the same as far as things go. There are differences, but not important here.

You don't need it to teach in Korea. You can get an online one for $300 and that's good enough to please the public schools.

maingman · Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Location: left Korea

http://icalweb.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Statistics

Wink

agoodmouse · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Location: Anyang

maingman · Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Location: left Korea

part of reply to me, earliier this year from ical
A Certificate is the standard qualification required to teach English as a Second or Foreign Language in the private sector. Accepted all over the world, the 100hrs ICAL TESL/TEFL Certificate is regarded as a benchmark by which other online courses are judged and we are proud leaders in this field.

We have many ICAL graduates who have found suite employment tin the countries you mentioned thanks to their ICAL certificate and related papers. In fact, the ICAL 100hrs TESL/TEFL Certificate is even accepted by the Education and Manpower Bureau in Hong Kong.

I assume you already have a degree so adding a TESL certificate to your r�sum� will increase your marketability in those countries.

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IATQUO moderates only those course providers listed on their website. To be listed on the IATQUO website you need to pay them not only a registration fee but also a commission for each student you have on your books. So as you can see their validation is hardly independent and unbiased. In fact IATQUO was originally set up for a school (TEFL International) that couldn�t get accreditation through the usual channels.

Of course to be 100% certain you should contact the school or relevant government department and check with them first. This will, of course, prevent any problems later.

May I also suggest that you do this even if you take a course from an organization other than ICAL. There is currently NO independent accrediting organization for TESL/TEFL Courses and so it is up to the individual school or government to determine which courses they accept. And in many situations it is left to the individual school; there have been cases where one school in a town will accept a particular certificate but another school in the same town will not.