If you walk into the ESL on-campus restaurant and you order the Special ESL Alphabet Soup, you may find the following combination of acronyms in your soup.
If you guess them right, then you get a free lunch! So we’re going to help you with the ESL lingo in your transition to teaching with Canterbury English in Spain & around the world!
ESL – English as a Second Language – Students learn English in their own English-speaking country. For example, a Mexican immigrant learns English in the USA.
EFL – English as a Foreign Language – Students learn English in their own countries. For example, a student in Spain takes classes there.
CELTA – Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults – This is Cambridge’s Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.
TESOL – Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages – This is another term for this profession.
TEFL – Teaching English as a Foreign Language – This is the one that you want to be certified in to teach English. TEFL is the most widely recognized. And learn TEFL it’s easy.
Certificate in the ESL profession and this is the one that Canterbury English has been offering for over twenty two years!
A TEFL Madrid Certificate is a Gateway to Travel and Adventure
A TEFL Certificate is your gateway to the adventure of living in another country, as it will give you a job to support yourself in the country of your choice. All English schools in Madrid require you to have a TEFL certificate (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) in order to hire you. Many students of our program have first taught in Madrid for us, then after a year or so they have moved on to other countries around the world. There are few nations on the globe that don’t have Canterbury English TEFL Madrid graduates teaching in schools, academies and freelance! You can teach english abroad. Come and learn TEFL Spain with us in Madrid.
They teach in English academies such as Canterbury English, language schools, state and private schools, as well as in-companies. There are a variety of ways to work: Schools offer contracts, student visa internship contracts, freelance, part time and full time work, small groups, large groups, one-to-one with children, adults and companies. You may know the language that the students speak or you may not, it is not necessary to speak Spanish to teach English. Get to know the world while teaching abroad.
You help students learn the English language in a dynamic and interesting way that helps them assimilate the language faster, so that they can communicate in English, which is their final goal. We offer you tefl jobs in spain.
In general students want to improve the basic language skills which are: speaking, listening, writing and reading and the TEFL Spain trained teacher should focus his/her lesson plans and classes to stimulate these four key areas of the language. Teachers should have at their disposal an array of tools that the English teaching profession provides: course books, audio-visual materials, newspapers, games, role-plays, dialogues, songs, literature, art, pop-culture, football and a long etc. The key is to find out what your student is interested in and then that will help you focus the class. We have several teaching abroad programs to chose from that will help you reach these goals. For example, if you have a student who is a novel writer and is a highly cultured person, then use literature, poetry, art, songs and the cultural section of a British or American newspaper rather than the football section of the Guardian! But an article in English on the latest Real Madrid vs Barça might work really well with a football fan taxi driver who wants to improve his English to be able to talk with his international clients.
Everything depends on what makes your student tick! You can find that out during the first few classes and then this information will help you plan lessons, which they will be interested in, and they will progress faster because of the enthusiasm you have generated in them. Come and study with our tefl academy. Learning TEFL Madrid is for you, don´t lost this opportunity!
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