Category Archives: Teaching English in Korea

Letter from a reader- Resistance to games

Posted on 25/03/2009 by alexcase

Will ponder on this and try to get something down myself at the weekend, but was hoping others could also help to with advice, recommended books and links etc: “Hi there Alex. My name is H***** ************ and I have … Continue reading →

Posted in ALT, Teaching English in Korea, Teaching teenagers, Teaching young learners, TEFL games | 5 Comments

Is TEFL recession proof?

Posted on 22/03/2009 by alexcase

March’s EL Gazette (electronic edition) leads with the story “Crunch is good for UK TEFL” and then there’s Private English Education Cost Rises 12 Percent in very much recession (and devaluation) hit Korea. And if we can just get into teacher … Continue reading →

Posted in becoming a teacher trainer, EL Gazette, links, Teacher training, Teaching English in Korea, TEFL, TEFL career planning, TEFL certificate, TEFL in the UK | 5 Comments

An interview with Alex Case of TEFLtastic blog

Posted on 17/02/2009 by alexcase

No, this post is not the ultimate ego trip or a sign of a split personality (or at least not just those things)- Troy from The Blog with the Longest Name in Spain sent me a few questions a couple … Continue reading →

Posted in Cross cultural training in EFL, Cultural differences/ cultural training, first TEFL job, Teaching English Abroad, Teaching English in Asia, Teaching English in China, Teaching English in Japan, Teaching English in Korea, TEFL career planning | 11 Comments

TEFL by numbers Feb 2008

Posted on 05/02/2009 by alexcase

78 pounds How much capital you need to set up an English school in Ho Chi Minh City. Wouldn’t rush out there to set up your own, though, as there are already 474 (!) registered language schools there. At least … Continue reading →

Posted in British Council accreditation, EL Gazette, Guardian TEFL, Oxford Street schools, Teaching English in Korea, Teaching English in Saudi Arabia, Teaching English in Vietnam, TEFL in the UK | Tagged | Leave a comment

Getting out of trouble in the EFL classroom

Posted on 02/02/2009 by alexcase

“Anton is… a tall and sturdy Iranian who came to Kongju to lay low from the Seoul Police for a while… He speaks Turkish, Japanese, Persian and Korean fluently. He doesn’t speak English. This makes classes very difficult for him… … Continue reading →

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The voice of the “free TEFL course” speaks

Posted on 10/01/2009 by alexcase

After my disbelieving post about the truth of claims of free TEFL training (followed by disbelieving comments by my regular readers, both of them), I got a reply from someone in the parent company and sent off some questions that … Continue reading →

Posted in Dodgy TEFL courses, Global TESOL, links, Online TEFL certificate, Teacher training, Teaching English Abroad, Teaching English in Asia, Teaching English in Korea, TEFL, TEFL career planning, TEFL certificate, TEFL conferences, TEFL qualifications, TEFL scams | Tagged , | 24 Comments

TEFL quotes of the year 2008

Posted on 24/12/2008 by alexcase

In reverse order by when they appeared on the blog (the first two are new): “Now Skinner did reign in the land of psychology, and it came to pass that Chomsky smote Skinner and begat Krashen, and Krashen begat Long, … Continue reading →

Posted in ALT, CELTA, History of English teaching in Japan, Kaplan, KOTESOL, Linguistics, applied linguistics and SLA, Teaching English in Asia, Teaching English in Japan, Teaching English in Korea, TEFL chains, TEFL heroes- Scott Thornbury, TEFL in the UK | Tagged , , | 4 Comments

Free online TEFL training???

Posted on 23/12/2008 by alexcase

UPDATE – website now dead, so I guess they are no more So Global TESOL claims, although some of the things written there are a bit offputting- maybe deliberately so as they seem to be warning people off the need to take … Continue reading →

Posted in Global TESOL, links, MA TESOL, Online TEFL certificate, Teacher training, Teaching English Abroad, Teaching English in Korea, TEFL, TEFL certificate, TEFL conferences, TEFL qualifications | Tagged | 17 Comments

Guardian TEFL wises up

Posted on 12/12/2008 by alexcase

The latest TEFL infomercial from the alleged newspaper the Graudian doesn’t, for once, have a by-line saying it was written by a representative of a TEFL course provider with everything to gain from the industry selling more courses and nothing … Continue reading →

Posted in Cactus TEFL, Dodgy TEFL courses, finding good TEFL jobs, Guardian TEFL, Job security, links, Teacher training, Teaching English Abroad, Teaching English in Korea, TEFL, TEFL career planning, TEFL certificate, TEFL scams, TEFL working conditions | Tagged | 6 Comments

An A to Z of Korean English (Konglish) expressions

Posted on 01/12/2008 by alexcase

UPDATE: List now much expanded and polished up, including more listing of when it is the same in other languages. I’ve also since done a list of common errors for Korean speakers, worksheets for Koreans that deal with some of … Continue reading →

Posted in English as an International Language/ Lingua Franca, Error correction, False friends, Konglish, Linguistics, applied linguistics and SLA, Teaching English in Asia, Teaching English in Japan, Teaching English in Korea, TEFL, TESOL, Vocabulary | Tagged | 46 Comments