Thứ Ba, 6 tháng 3, 2012

Teach English Abroad and Discover the World

Teach English Abroad and Discover the World

Teach English in Russia
Teach English in Indonesia
At EF, the world is your oyster. It's not just a job. It's about changing lives, including your own. As an English teacher abroad you will get the chance to explore some of the world's most ancient civilizations. You will have the opportunity to learn the local language, travel the country and meet fascinating people. Whether you make it a year or a career, applying for a TEFL Jobabroad is the first step in your international adventure.
Teach English in China
Imagine working abroad in the world's most populous country as it undergoes a complete economic transformation. Working with EF, China's largest and most recognized English language training provider, you will be teaching the current and future leaders of China. Much 
is made of China's growing world importance. As an Engilsh teacher, you'll be able to form 
your own opinon of this economic powerhouse. Watch our teacher videos to find out more about life in China.

Thứ Hai, 13 tháng 2, 2012

ESL School Administration


ESL School Administration

Welcome to EnglishClub.com ESL School Administration, an area of tips, articles and tools for school managers and administration staff.
How To Set Up a Language School
Tips and pointers on starting, equipping and promoting an ESL school
ESL Management Forum at TEFL.net
Ask questions and share your experience with others worldwide in ESL management and administration
Language Schools for Sale
Schools around the world that are currently on the market.

Marketing

How to Promote Your Language Program in a Tough Market
What to do when international crises threaten your market.
Marketing Your Language Program
The basics to successful promotion of your courses.
Is Your Advertising Being Seen?
Would you like to reach over 1 Million ESL students and teachers monthly? See details of our advertising programme here.

Human Resources

ESL Recruitment: An Overview
Why recruitment is a key to success in your school, and how to get it right
ESL Recruitment: The Interview
A structured approach to interviewing prospective teachers
Induction Guidelines for Your New Staff
The importance of welcoming and integrating new teachers for efficient school management
Dealing With Problem Staff
Keys to maintaining discipline and staff harmony

ESL Resources

Pronunciation Training
Pronunciation is probably the most difficult of the language skills to teach, yet it is equally one of the most important. Because of the problems that teachers have in understanding and teaching pronunciation, it tends often to be forgotten and left untaught. Pronunciation Power is an award-winning pronunciation training program that is valuable for student and teacher alike, clearly demonstrating with video and animation how to make each of the 52 sounds of English. This program is used by thousands of universtities and language schools around the world, and is available as a stand-alone CD version or downloadable network version.
School Administration Software for Smaller Language Schools
Provides school owners and administrators of smaller language schools with background information on school administration software.
School Administrator Hot Links

TEFL Training

TEFL Training

These EnglishClub TEFL Training pages contain advice and resources for prospective or existing ESL teachers. EnglishClub does not offer TEFL training itself; nor is it associated with any TEFL-training organisation.
ESL World TEFL Listings
Worldwide listings of TEFL and TEFL-type teacher training courses by country.
Frequently Asked Questions
Basic questions and answers about TEFL in general, getting trained, finding jobs and working conditions.
Basic TEFL Qualifications
A review of the most usual qualifications required for a TEFL/TESL career and some of the courses available.
EFL or ESL?
What's the difference between English as a Foreign Language and English as a Second Language?
ELT Abbreviations and Acronyms
A guide to widely used abbreviations and acronyms in ELT terminology.
TEFL Qualifications
Today there are quite a few organizations offering TEFL qualifications. Three of the best known bodies, with externally validated courses, are:
Cambridge ESOL
School for International Training
Trinity

TEFL Articles

TEFL Articles

EnglishClub.com TEFL Articles
A selection of articles and essays related to the teaching of English as a second or foreign language. Many of these were first published in the TEFL.net Inspire! magazine. If you wish, you can submit an article for possible publication.
Functional Language For IELTS Speaking
The most important language for all parts of the IELTS Speaking exam.
Activities For Ordinal Numbers
Stimulating practice for “first”, “second”, “twenty third” etc.
Teaching Grammar In Business English Classes
Looking at the practicalities of bringing grammar into classes that are mainly about business communication.
Practice for modals of possibility/probability
Stimulating ways of practising must/may/might/could/can’t for speculation.
Classroom Activities For IELTS Reading
Easier, more fun, more challenging and more useful classroom tasks for IELTS Reading.
How To Teach Teleconferencing In English
A practical guide to helping students cope with this most challenging and most modern of skills.
What Your Students Need To Know About Thanking In English
Things to teach to students of all levels about the most important kind of politeness.
Thanking Activities
Entertaining ways to practise expressing gratitude.
Planning And Paragraphing Activities
Stimulating ways of quickly improving your students’ vital writing skills of planning and paragraphing.
What Your Students Need To Know About BULATS Writing Part One
How students can boost their score in the first part of the BULATS Writing exam.
Guessing Games For Third Person S
Fun practice for one of the most common mistakes in English, including ideas useable with levels from False Beginner.
What Your Students Need To Know About Emailing
Things you need to cover to really teach the vital skill of emailing in English.
Names In The English Language Classroom
Issues associated with the use of student and teacher names in class.
Teaching Names
Practical tips on bringing up the topic of names in the ESL classroom.
Typical Problems Pronouncing the Alphabet
A summary of problems different students have with saying and recognising the English alphabet, including in connected speech
Minimal Pairs
Minimal pairs are underexploited. This article looks at how teachers can teach pronunciation with minimal pairs, with some specific ideas for classroom use.
Homophones in the EFL Class
Reasons to use homophones in teaching English and lots of ways to do so
Dealing with dominating students
Activities and classroom dynamic techniques for coping with students who take over
Politically correct language in the EFL classroom
Suggestions for bringing the topic of political correctness into class in interesting ways, and for dealing with PC issues when they come up naturally
Gender in the language classroom
Classroom issues connected to gender and interesting ways of using that topic in classes of various ages
Presenting Vocabulary in YL Classes
Be creative. Be appealing. Be quick. To make sure your students will remember all the new words you taught them, be fun and have fun as well!
Ideas on Classroom Management in YL Classes
Tips to make your Young Learner classes work like magic
Cool Corporate English Consciousness
Giving your corporate classes the best approach
Two Gateways for Teachers of English
Review of EnglishClub.com and TEFL.net
Word Up Review by Alex Case
The biggest hit in our school this year
A Tip for the Possessive Apostrophe
Apostrophes need not be learning catastrophes
School Administration Software for Smaller Language Schools
Provides school owners and administrators of smaller language schools with background information on school administration software
Operation MathLog - a progress report
An internet-based EFL maze for logical-mathematical learners
Guide to Teaching EFL in France
An EFL teacher shares her experience of teaching in central France
Our House
Suggestions for a text-based CALL lesson
Hands off that e-dictionary!
The (few) merits and (many) disadvantages of e-dictionaries from the author's point of view
Lexis - the new grammar?
How new materials are finally challenging established course book conventions
Marketing Your Language Program 101
The basics to successful promotion of your courses
A Student Like Me
Suggestions for those who aspire to re-enter the classroom to get a degree
Coursebook: Take it or leave it
We do not have to dispense with the textbook. We only have to disabuse ourselves of the tendency to take a coursebook as gospel.
Intellect or Affect?
Intellect or affect? one may ask. Certainly both. We should not view them as two forces vying with each other, but as the ends of a continuum that is called self-awareness and spiritual elevation.
Classroom: Forum or Arena?
A look at some of the factors that play an important role in the teaching-learning situation.
SAC Shock!!
Tips for self access centres
Cutting Out Cutting Up
Tips for lesson plans
How Was the Dip?
A personal reflection on the DELTA
Language and Sex
Why can't a woman be more like a man?
Accommodation Theory
Each one of us is aware that our style of speech changes in the twinkling of an eye, as it were, depending on a wide range of variables...
An Introduction to "Befogging" Idioms
Do idioms really call the shots?

ESL Projects

ESL Projects

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