Category Archives: Teaching English Abroad

Even the Danish planning to start English younger

Posted on 05/12/2012 by alexcase

Despite a complete lack of evidence that either is needed or will help: School reform calls for English in first grade (sigh) However, it must also be said that the arguments used by governments for scrapping English in primary schools … Continue reading →

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US university ESL program’s shocking lack of standards?

Posted on 01/12/2012 by alexcase

including university teachers with no higher degrees, ones with little relevant qualifications or experience (only one of 14 with an actual Masters in ESL and only 5 of 14 with over two years’ TESL experience), no evaluation of instructors or their … Continue reading →

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London summer schools down 35 percent in 2012

Posted on 11/11/2012 by alexcase

No info on where that stat came from nor conclusions on whether it was mainly the Olympics or something else, but still… Were the Olympics bad for (TEFL) business? Loads more TEFL stats via the tag of that name below.

Posted in TEFL in the UK | Tagged | 2 Comments

100,000 foreign English teachers in China?

Posted on 27/10/2012 by alexcase

So claims this article from Forbes, which also has the fact that in almost every country in the survey women had better English than men: English – The global language of business? Click on the Stats tag below for more … Continue reading →

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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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University of Tokyo recruits first students able to graduate just through English

Posted on 11/10/2012 by alexcase

Just 27 so far, but is part of a trend that is almost balancing out the Japanese decline in housewife classes and interest in studying abroad (the other counterbalances being the recent start of compulsory lessons in primary schools and … 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

Plenty of TEFL jobs in Spain despite the recession?

Posted on 20/08/2012 by alexcase

This piece of PR fluff not even trying to pretend to be journalism doesn’t provide any evidence at all for its claim that  “there is currently a high demand for English teachers here”, but it is certainly conceivable when even … Continue reading →

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Why aren't you a "celebrity tutor"?

Posted on 08/08/2012 by alexcase

“[A report] described how “star tutors” who can fill lecture halls have become a phenomenon in places like Hong Kong. [The report] cited two South Korean celebrity tutors: Woo Hyeong-cheol, who reportedly earns $3.9 million per year offering Web-based math classes … Continue reading →

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Mute English

Posted on 26/07/2012 by alexcase

Have just come across this Chinglish term for being able to understand English but not produce it orally, according to Wikipedia translated from the Chinese expression ya ba ying yu, and simply liked this compound noun so much that I wanted to spread the … Continue reading →

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