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For something completely different, have you thought about teaching English in Japan? Probably worlds away from your usual life, teaching English in Japan is an attractive option for the adventurous…

Now that you’ve done a 120-hour internationally recognised TEFL course and you’re a TEFL teacher (congratulations!), you’re probably deciding what you’re going to do with your magical certificate. After all,…

As a teacher teaching English as a foreign language, you will be required to speak in front of large groups of people on a daily basis – from children and…

Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Regardless of how cushy teaching English as a foreign language may be, it’s still a job and it involves learners, so it was never…

Collocation Problems for EFL Learners - There are many difficulties that English as a Foreign Language learners experience when learning English. While it’s pretty obvious that there are rules governing…

If you’ve recently done an internationally qualified Teach English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) course or if you’ve only started teaching English abroad, you probably haven’t engaged in action research…

Let’s face it: interesting EFL lessons = interested EFL learners. That’s what it all boils down to, really. You probably learnt a lot of tricks on your 120-hour TEFL course…

The term “English as a Foreign Language teacher” is actually quite misleading. You are a teacher, yes, and you are teaching English as a Foreign Language, yes, but you are…

As a TEFL teacher, you might think there are loads of things necessary for you to have in the EFL classroom in order to execute successful lessons. You might be…