Do you want to teach English in China? With ICAL TEFL you can take our TEFL Certificate Course and learn how to teach English and get the most from yourself AND your students! This course is ideal if you want to teach English in China. It is the basic qualification...
Do you want to teach English in India? With ICAL TEFL you can become qualified to teach English. The ICAL TEFL Certificate is your key to getting a teaching job, earning money and making a difference! This course is ideal if you want to teach English in India. It is...
The ICAL TEFL Blog and the ICAL TEFL Resources are hugely popular destinations for English language professionals. Although we have added our own articles, we also welcome submissions from individuals and organizations outside ICAL TEFL. If you are interested in...
There is growing evidence that the "linear" English languages courses are declining in usage in favor of more clustered materials and returning to the same basic sources when learning. Fueled both by a demand for more efficient and faster delivery and more...
I think we have all found that giving clear instructions to our students, especially lower proficiency students, can be a real challenge. We quickly learn that giving only oral instructions can be futile in getting our students to understand what it is we want them to...
An interesting sideline to the eternal debate about taboo words. The BBC reports that the English term, shitstorm, considered by many to be vulgar and not a word to be used in public as such, has entered the German vocabulary. However, it has entered as a...
In the past week or so I've seen a couple of videos posted online which feature famous people speaking English. One was in the British Daily Telegraph newspaper and was of Russian president Vladimir Putin talking about the World Expo. The Daily Telegraph sneer and...
A random collection of students' feedback. Thanks to each and every ICAL student for sharing their course experience with other TEFLers. What ICAL Students Say From XN1C3B Paul, working on mod3. What I'm learning in my ICAL studies has already helped me very much with...
An article in Education Week (see link below) says that when a group of teachers spent time abroad they were much more employable when they returned to the US than a comparable group who did not spend time abroad. The actual figures quoted were 20% of graduate...
If you know English well enough, you can theoretically teach English at any age. You can get involved in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) or TESOL (Teaching English as a Second Language) whenever you want. On the ICAL TEFL Certificate Course, for...
