New Article: So you want to teach English abroad?

It’s not unusual, in Australia at least, to find student teachers taking a 12 month break to go off and teach English in places like Japan. The number of ‘come and teach English in Japan’ ads in the employment section of the newspaper is a testament to this. There is a certain appeal that lies in dropping things for a year to teach abroad.

There are a number of acronyms used to describe teaching English to non English speakers. Some of the more common acronyms are ESL (English as a second language), ESOL (English for speakers of other languages) and EFL (English as a foreign language). There are also the teacher-centric terms, TESL (teaching English as a second language), TESOL (teaching English for speakers of other languages) and TEFL (teaching English as a foreign language).

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