Category Archives: Teaching English in Thailand

A hilariously bad TEFL course model lesson plan

Posted on 08/10/2014 by alexcase

Discovered this while researching something else and my jaw just dropped with its awfulness (and I say that as someone who still has to teach with materials made up by random teachers in other branches of my schools). I’ve highlighted … Continue reading →

Posted in Online TEFL certificate, Teacher training, Teaching English in Thailand | 11 Comments

New page with my 26 articles on teaching speaking

Posted on 06/02/2013 by alexcase

My articles on teaching speaking There are also links from there to pages with my many articles on teaching functional language and oral practice for particular grammar points.

Posted in Speaking, Teaching English in Bosnia, Teaching English in Thailand | 2 Comments

CMU and Unitefl – The greatest TEFL soap opera?

Posted on 14/10/2012 by alexcase

Now that Unitefl have made a few changes (some at my suggestion) to their course and (especially) website, I’ve rewritten my “Do not study with Unitefl Thailand” post as “A History of Chiang Mai University and Unitefl” – and quite a … Continue reading →

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Interview with the new ownership/ management of UniTEFL Thailand

Posted on 12/09/2012 by alexcase

I regularly turn down suggestions for TEFL dirt digging because I want to get back to the Past Perfect Continuous games that are my real forte. However, I don’t think I’d ever been offered as much unwanted info on anyone … Continue reading →

Posted in Teaching English in Thailand, TEFL International, unitefl | Tagged | 21 Comments

A review of the CMUTEFL course

Posted on 29/03/2012 by alexcase

About 18 months after the messy implosion of the last TEFL course on the Chiang Mai University campus, it seems they are finally starting another course there in April, and someone has written to me asking if it is “legit”. … Continue reading →

Posted in Chiang Mai University | 31 Comments

A history of Chiang Mai University and Unitefl

Posted on 16/12/2010 by alexcase

(To skip straight to more recent history, see an interview with the new management/ ownership of Unitefl here. ) I haven’t worked in Thailand since I was a humble Shane teacher there in 96/97 and didn’t really take much of an … Continue reading →

Posted in Chiang Mai University, Teaching English in Thailand, TEFL International, unitefl | 1 Comment

6 Ways TEFL Certificate Course Providers Try to Rip You Off Part 4 – The University Language Institute

Posted on 08/10/2010 by alexcase

By regular and popular guest writer “TEFLista” “Walks Like a Duck, Quacks Like a Duck, But Sometimes It’s a Toad: The University Language Institute. When I started writing this guest piece series about two years ago, I never thought I … Continue reading →

Posted in Chiang Mai University, Teacher training, Teaching English in Thailand, TEFL certificate | 34 Comments

What was the biggest change in TEFL in the Noughties?

Posted on 21/12/2009 by alexcase

If you’d asked me in 1999, I probably would’ve predicted that Task Based Learning was going to take over the TEFL world, for better or worse. What a damp squib that turned out to be, with apparently even Cutting Edge … Continue reading →

Posted in British Council, Dogme, Electronic dictionaries, ELT publishing, Humanistic language teaching, IELTS, Interactive whiteboard, International House, Pilgrims, Teaching English in Japan, Teaching English in Thailand, teaching online, Technology, TEFL blogs, TEFL in the UK, Twitter, Wall Street | 10 Comments

TEFL reality

Posted on 26/08/2009 by alexcase

…which I really need to remember as a writer now that I have found an untypically decent school: “The idea that I could improve the lives of the Rwandan people sounded ambitious, considering I had no experience as an educationalist. … Continue reading →

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The best of English Teacher X Part Two

Posted on 04/08/2009 by alexcase

1. “I was overcome with panic and wanted to run. . .but I’d already run, and here I was” English Teacher Q on his first ever English lesson, after trying to escape it all in Bangkok 2. “I walk into … Continue reading →

Posted in Englishteacherx, Teaching English in Eastern Europe, Teaching English in Russia, Teaching English in Thailand, TEFL | Tagged , , | 4 Comments