CELTA stands for “Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults”. It is the original certificate course in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) or teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL), and it has been running for four decades. It is highly respected and recognized globally, with 7 out of 10 employers worldwide asking applicants to have it.
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In 2002, one of the relatively few language centres based in Bucharest, Romania, decided to join the International House network. IH Bucharest was born. Since then it has grown from 6 to about 150 teachers, from a dozen of client companies to 400, and it...
Author: Ilinca Stroe Someone walks into a language school wishing to enrol on an English course. One of the first questions they’re bound to be asked is, “Have you studied English before?” It’s the preliminary step to ascertaining their current level of English, which is needed...
Author: Anthony Ash. Article originally published in issue no. 38 of the IH Journal. How many times have you had to urge your students in class, “English please!”? While their mother tongue (L1) can come in handy at times, for example to peer-teach difficult grammar structures,...
Author: Alastair Grant. Article originally published in issue no. 38 of the IH Journal. The stages of a typical reading lesson tend to be rather fixed. Following them we are probably correct, but we risk missing out on a very significant thing: our students’ opinions about...
Author: Ilinca Stroe Set up in May 2019, the Teacher Training Centre of International House (IH) Bucharest ran five CELTA courses in 2021: three part-time and two full-time, all online. That is ambitious for a relatively new centre, and prospective trainees might ask themselves, “Does it...
Author: David Petrie. Article originally published in issue no. 39 of the IH Journal. Generally speaking, writing isn’t precisely the students’ cup of tea… And when they have to practice writing for exams (IELTS, TOEFL, Cambridge suite), they might be extra reluctant. This article gives you...
Author: Ilinca Stroe Teachers’ conferences are not common. Google, and you’ll see. A few a year occur in the world, some for tertiary-level professionals, some about school policies, but very few for regular teachers who simply want to learn something new from experts in their field....
Author: Yvette Phipps. Article originally published in issue no. 39 of the IH Journal. How easy is it for you to manage your young learner classes? Getting your YLs to work with you efficiently can be challenging. This article gives you a useful, easy-to-follow recipe in...
Author: Kylie Malinowska. Article originally published in issue no. 39 of the IH Journal. Do you teach very young learners? Do you often find yourself dizzily surrounded by a bunch of swarming, giggling under-fives? That’s a lot of fun, but very little teaching… What you need,...
Author: Maria Conca. Article originally published in issue no. 39 of the IH Journal. Do your young learners in the English class often go off on a tangent in their mother tongue? Why is it that they find it hard to listen to one another, to...
