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Blog Category: The ICAL TEFL Blog

Susan Griffith‏‎

Susan Griffith is a Canadian freelance editor and writer who specializes in writing books and articles about travel, especially working and volunteering abroad. After graduating in English from the University of Toronto, she went on to study at Oxford and then decided...

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English Teaching Opportunities in the USA

What's the current teaching situation in the USA? We look into what is happening here right now in terms of immigration and teaching English. Each year more than one million immigrants who arrive in the USA‏‎ face one of the biggest challenges of moving abroad -...

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Suicide & the Hangman Game

There's a report in a Japanese paper about how a TEFL teacher in Yachiyo has come in for criticism after continually playing Hangman‏‎ with students even after a student at the school committed suicide by hanging. (See below for a translation of the original article.)...

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Travel makes you Creative!

How Multicultural Learning Experiences Facilitate Creativity - that's the title of a research paper published earlier this year. It says, essentially, that if you have more experiences traveling and living abroad then you'll be more creative in your everyday life....

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Macmillan Bribery in TEFL

It's just come out that Macmillan Publishers has been banned by the World Bank over bribes it paid to the Sudanese government to secure lucrative education contracts in the Sudan‏‎. This came as quite a surprise to me (and I guess a lot of other people, too) for a...

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Teaching in [put country here] frustrations!

Trust me. If you want to find out what it's like teaching in a particular country be prepared to wade through loads of advertising rubbish if you decide to use Google! We had an inquiry from one of our students who was interested in teaching in Croatia‏‎ and asked us...

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Trying out Rosetta Stone

You may or may not be familiar with the Rosetta Stone language learning software. I got a chance to play with some; a friend lent me the German package so all week I've been learning German‏‎ from the ground up. Essentially you start off with some nouns and labels:...

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Back behind a Desk – learning a new language

Well I'm on business/holiday right now but in Portugal‏‎ - a country I've never visited before. I always think it's a fascinating experience to be in a place where you know nothing at all of the language. It immediately reminds you what it is like to be a complete...

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