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[Toby]

Can someone give me the online delta address please? From Birmingham university I think.

Thanks.

[the saint]

Eh? This question doesn't really make sense. DELTA is run by Cambridge and is not online. If you are talking about a distance DELTA you need to speak to the British Council here in Seoul.

More info about the DELTA itself can be found at
http://www.cambridge-efl.org/teaching/delta/index.cfm

and the Distance DELTA at
http://www.thedistancedelta.com/index.cfm

Maybe I've misunderstood what you are asking for...

[Zed]

I just got an e-mail yesterday for an information session about an upcoming DELTA couse at the British Language Centre in Madrid where I did my CELTA. Where are you looking to do it? I'm sure you must have read through enough threads here about distance courses to know that the CELTA is virtually useless (unrecognised) here. I would assume the DELTA would be the same.

Maybe PM TECO about it. He seems to have all the information about those things.

[Toby]

[Zed]

Considering the way the CELTA was taught and scrutinised by Cambridge I don't understand how the DELTA could be taught online. Is it that different in approach?

[Toby]

[VanIslander]

Check out the details of the DELTA course.

It is NOT entirely by distance. You have to go to an initial intensive week of classes at institutions authorized to provide the training, and I think Hong Kong is the closest site to us.

Plus the diploma route is more reflective for experienced teachers, more theoretical and more reflexive (where teachers put their lessons into practice wherever they're teaching while taking the so-called distance DELTA).

I would think even an Australian degree mill Master's would be a better investment of a year of one's time if one intends to teach in Korea long term.

But if one plans to be an international traveller and EFL teacher throughout Europe and Latin America, then the DELTA looks like the way to go.