The TEFL Academy Blog

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…

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…

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…

5 ESSENTIALS FOR THE TEFL CLASSROOM As a TEFL teacher, you might think there are loads of things necessary for you to have in the EFL classroom in order to…

Learning a foreign language can be hard work and spending all day in a classroom can be boring – for both the students and the teacher! EFL teachers are fortunate…