Invaluable... full of practical guidance and information.

A mine of information

Invaluabe... full of practical guidance and information

Fully revised seventh edition of the definitive and acclaimed guide to short and long-term opportunities around the world for both trained and untrained teachers in the booming field of teaching English as a foreign language. Opportunities exist from Bordeaux to Bogota, Paris to Patras, the Mediterranean to the South China Seas as the worldwide desire to learn English is fuelled by the gradual adoption of English as the language of the internet.

The essential information provided by Teaching English Abroad on finding a job covers not only recruitment organisations and useful websites but also how to set yourself up as a freelance teacher and to find jobs on the spot once abroad. But the book also gives invaluable background information including a section on training as an EFL teacher containing a directory of more than 380 TEFL courses that last for periods from a weekend to three years, plus advice on the preparations to make before leaving to take up a job and on how to cope with any problems that may arise once actually working.
In addition Teaching English Abroad contains a country guide covering more than 70 countries around the world where EFL is a major industry that gives information on the local prospects in each country for qualified and unqualified teachers, the red tape involved in taking up work, conditions of employment etc.

Extensive directories give the teacher requirements of more than 700 language schools in Europe, the Far East, Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, and over 1,150 language school addresses to contact for jobs are also listed.

Fully revised new edition of a guide to short- and long-term opportunities around the world for both trained and untrained teachers in the field of teaching English as a foreign language. The book contains chapters on finding work in over 20 countries where EFL is a major industry, including lists of language schools which hire English teachers. It provides full information on how to become qualified, the role of recruitment agencies, what to take, and more.

DEFINITIVE. Now in its fifth edition and widely recognised as the definitive guide to finding a job overseas in the booming field of teaching English.

WIDE APPEAL. A book for the total beginner and the classroom-hardened professional alike: covers the prospects for those with and without English teaching qualifications.

COMPREHENSIVE Lists employers offering both short and long term work in over 70 countries around the world.

ESSENTIAL READING Also includes a directory of 325 TEFL courses lasting from a weekend to three years.

Teaching English Abroad

TALK YOUR WAY AROUND THE WORLD!

THOUSANDS OF LONG AND SHORT-TERM ENGLISH TEACHING
JOBS FOR BOTH QUALIFIED AND UNQUALIFIED TEACHERS

DECIDING TO GO AND PREPARATION
Motives for teaching English â?" Rewards and risks â?" Red tape â?"
Problems and how to cope â?" Scope of opportunities â?" What to take.

TRAINING AS AN EFL TEACHER
The value of qualifications â?" Range of courses â?" Certificate courses
Directory of more than 380 TEFL courses lasting from a weekend
to three years.

FINDING A JOB
Recruitment organisations â?" Interviews â?" Useful websites â?" Gap Year
opportunities â?" Freelance teaching â?" Finding jobs on the spot.

COUNTRY BY COUNTRY GUIDE
88 countries covered â?" Prospects for qualified and unqualified
teachers â?" Private teaching â?" Conditions of employment â?"
Culture shock

EXTENSIVE DIRECTORIES
Listing the teacher requirements of more than 700 language
schools in Europe, the Far East, South East Asia, Africa, the
Middle East and Latin America. Also features a further
1,000 language school addresses to contact for jobs.
PLUS:
First-hand accounts from English teachers who have travelled
and worked abroad.

Susan Griffith is Britain's foremost authority on finding temporary work abroad: her other titles include Work Your Way Around the World, Taking a Gap Year, and Gap Years for Grown Ups

WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO TEACH?
Anyone who can speak English fluently and has a lively positive personality has a fighting chance of finding an opening as a teacher somewhere. Geordies, Tasmanians and Alabamans have all been known to be hired as English teachers (not to mention Norwegians and North Africans), though most employers favour native speakers of English without a heavy regional accent.
MOTIVES FOR TEACHING ENGLISH
There are perhaps five main types of individual to be found teaching English from Tarragona to Taipei: the serious career teacher, the student of the prevailing language and culture who teaches in order to fund a longer stay, the long-term traveller who wants to prolong and fund his or her travels, the philanthropic or religious person sponsored by an aid organisation, charity or mission society, and finally the misfit or oddball, perhaps fleeing unhappiness at home.
DIRECTORY OF TRAINING COURSES
Cambridge Certificate (CELTA) Courses
All courses last four weeks full-time unless otherwise stated. The fees quoted (which should be taken merely as a guide) include the CELTA examination fee of £74.70 (~USD120) unless otherwise stated.
ANGLIA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT. Tel: 01223 363271. Fax: 01223 352933. E-mail: m.l.baker@anglia.ac.uk. Full-time in July and August only. 9.30am-5pm. Includes 6 hours of teaching practice and 8 hours of observation of experienced teachers. £970 (including examination fee). Accommodation can be arranged in APU halls of residence. Information is supplied about jobs.
ANGLO-CONTINENTAL TEACHER TRAINING CENTRE, 29-35 Wimborne Road, Bournemouth BH2 6NA. Tel: 01202 557414, ext 282. Fax: 01202 556156. E-mail: english@anglo-continental.com.Full-time (125 hours) 3 courses per year. £900. Part-time courses over 6 months proposed. Accommodation can be arranged.
ANGLOSCHOOL, 146 Church Road, Upper Norwood, London SE19 2NT. Tel: 020-8653 7285. Fax: 020-8653 9667. E-mail: english@angloschool.co.uk. 4-week courses 4 times a year. £900. Video and booklet on basic teaching techniques available. 8 trainees maximum on course.
PROBLEMS WITH PUPILS
A very common problem is to find yourself in front of a class of mixed ability and incompatible aims. How do you plan a lesson that will satisfy a sophisticated business executive whose English is fairly advanced, a delinquent teenager and a housewife crippled by lack of confidence?

Marta Eleniak, who taught in Spain, recommends taking a hard line:
?Be a bitch at the start. The kids can be very wicked and take advantage of any good nature shown. Squash anyone who is late, shouts, gossips, etc. the first time or it'll never stop. The good classes make you love teaching. The bad make you feel as if you want to go back to filing.?

Each level and age group brings its own difficulties. Anyone who has no experience of dealing with young children may find it impossible to grab and hold their attention, let alone teach them any English. A lack of inhibition is very useful for teaching young children who will enjoy sing-songs, nursery rhymes, simple puzzles and games, etc. A firm hand may also be necessary if Aine Fligg's experience in Hong Kong is anything to go by. She was bitten on the ankle by one of her less receptive students. When the headmaster came in and remonstrated (with Aine!) the child bit him on the nose. The brat was then incarcerated in a cupboard, and emerged somewhat subdued.

2004-06-08 Not as good as they say.

True this books offers a good basic resource for prospective teachers, but nothing that the avid net searcher could not find for themselves. Some e-mail addresses were old and out of date as was some of the information. If you have an old copy of the book it will probably do just as well as it seems the author simply top's up existing information from older editions. Finally a word on the author who seems to write with an OLD STYLE superiority that does not allow for all the routes into Modern World English.