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It’s a well-known fact that you don’t need to be able to speak Thai to teach English in Thailand or Spanish to be able to teach in Spain; in other…

Being a teacher is about so much more than teaching. Being a teacher means you need to prepare lessons, carry out lessons, assess your students and just generally try to…

As teachers of English as a foreign language we are usually focussed on teaching our students English. However, if you are living in a foreign country, perhaps you want to…

English can be divided into four skills. The productive skills are writing and speaking; the receptive skills are listening and reading. In the TEFL classroom we are concerned with teaching…

For the majority of us, being in the classroom is the reason we love our jobs. Being with our students, working together on language issues, helping our students learn: we…

Learning English as a Foreign Language is often done in a classroom. What this means is that there will be a number of students who spend many hours in the…

Teaching English as a Foreign Language means that you can find yourself teaching all sorts of learners, from kindergarten to senior citizens. There is a lot of information and advice…

Krashen. Thornbury. Harmer. If there are three names you need to get to know in this industry, it should be these three. While there are loads of influential names in…

There are many factors that need to be considered when planning and carrying out an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) lesson: the content of the lesson, the needs of…