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| Who would you want as an EFL teacher? |
| Teachers with a Masters Degree or higher |
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26% |
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| Teachers with a Cambridge CELTA/DELTA |
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73% |
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The Lemon
Joined: 11 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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| waterbaby wrote: |
| The Lemon has an MA Ed (not TESOL specific) and he recently did the CELTA course in Bangkok so I'm sure he'd have some interesting comparisons to make between the two. |
Without question, my non-TESOL MEd was less practical for me than the CELTA. I'd had the MEd for two years before doing the CELTA last summer.. I'd recommend the CELTA to ANYONE. Really a great course. However, though they claim it's a "pre-service" course, most of the people in my class, including me, had already been teaching in Asia for years. The true beginners had a much harder time of it, though no one found it "easy".
Bangkok's CELTA has a couple of advantages - it's pretty much the cheapest CELTA in the world, and you're practice-teaching friendly and keen Thais instead of what I'd guess to be uptight and intense British Council-attending Koreans.
The CELTA isn't very well geared to the Korean ESL teaching model ("they pretend to learn, we pretend to teach"). It assumes an agressively motivated learner that I've seldom seen in my 5 years of Korean teaching. Most jobs in the Korea don't call for the CELTA - it's more useful if you're ever planning to escape the Korean ESL market.
Good luck! |
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TECO
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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Lemon, I agree.
I think Bangkok is definitely the place to go for this.
CELTA = EFL TEACHER BOOT CAMP LOL!!!
The M.A. is a piece of p i s s probably compared to the CELTA or DELTA |
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happy
Joined: 19 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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| The person with the Masters degree will move on to a university or management position so they won't stay long! |
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