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bittersweet
Joined: 10 Aug 2009
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 Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:00 am Post subject: teaching as a NON NATIVE in Taiwan/China/Korea..possible? |
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My girlfreind is Dutch, speaks and understands English totally fluently without accent She is a graduate, CELTA qualified, 30 years old.
My question is is it possible to teach legally and gain working visa as a non native speaker in Korea (pretty sure its not), Taiwan (unsure), or China(pretty sure it is).
We are in Japan at the moment but jobs seem to be scarce, so we are considering nearby alternatives.....
any advice would be appreciated, we have found it hard to find out definitively one way or the other, lots of conflicting advice....
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Carla
Joined: 21 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:10 am Post subject: Re: teaching as a NON NATIVE in Taiwan/China/Korea..possible |
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| bittersweet wrote: |
My girlfreind is Dutch, speaks and understands English totally fluently without accent She is a graduate, CELTA qualified, 30 years old.
My question is is it possible to teach legally and gain working visa as a non native speaker in Korea (pretty sure its not), Taiwan (unsure), or China(pretty sure it is).
We are in Japan at the moment but jobs seem to be scarce, so we are considering nearby alternatives.....
any advice would be appreciated, we have found it hard to find out definitively one way or the other, lots of conflicting advice....
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You are right about Korea and China. Taiwan I have no idea. On an E-2 visa for Korea, you must be a native speaker of the language you teach, and have a degree from a native speaking country. And for you, assuming you are a native speaker, the schools have mostly finished hiring for right now, but there are still some jobs. But probably the same situation like Japan. If you wait a few months, there will be more positions, but right now the pickings are getting slim, especially for public schools. |
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smoggy
Joined: 31 Jul 2009
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| In many locations of EF in (Yiwu, Xian) they hired non-native teachers to teach English as long as they had CELTA or TEFL. I had a real ignorant teacher from Poland who thought that she was native-fluent, but made major grammar errors and pronunciation errors, but she was Sr. teacher. The Brits who worked there had no use for her, it was the same for me. |
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thoreau
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| Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 3:54 am Post subject: |
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Conrad B Hart
Joined: 27 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:26 am Post subject: |
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Even as a teenager I met Dutch peers whose English was as good as, and in some cases even better than ours.
I can't speak about Korea and Taiwan as I have no experience of those Countries, but I know for a fact that in China (it is a MASSIVE country after all) they do employ non native English speakers to teach English even if said English teachers English ability isn't all that hot. |
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andrewchon
Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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| The Dutch system of second language learning is something Korea ought to implement if Korea wants fluent speakers. |
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Epicurus
Joined: 18 Jun 2009
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I thought most countries that issue visas related to teaching English specify that you must be a citizen of the "big7"?
US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ, S. Africa |
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