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.
Call Center: +40 377 102 211
Author: Ilinca Stroe While coursebooks seem increasingly more shaped by authenticist ELT philosophies such as Dogme, including radio show extracts for listening exercises and (adapted) newspaper or magazine articles for reading tasks, using unedited authentic materials in the language class as a complement to the textbook...
Author: Jamie King. Article originally published in issue no. 42 of the IH Journal. ELT, CCQs, TBL – how crazy are you about acronyms in teacher training? And have you ever wondered whether they might not favour form over meaning? This article cautions trainers and trainees...
Author: Elna Coetzer. Article originally published in issue no. 42 of the IH Journal. Practising and consolidating critical thinking skills in the YL language class is no novelty to 21st-century teaching. How do you do it best, as a teacher? By answering questions. Chubby questions. As...
Author: Kylie Malinowska. Article originally published in issue no. 42 of the IH Journal. What are coursebooks still for? With such a massive amount of online resources (games, crosswords, stories, songs, worksheets, flashcards, you name it), we might feel very tempted to do away with textbooks....
Author: Ilinca Stroe Language exams such as TOEFL or those in the Cambridge suite seem to be growing more and more popular. And important. Many times, people’s education, career or residence status depend on the exam score, while for many others the exams are a matter...
Author: Christopher Redmond. Article originally published in issue no. 44 of the IH Journal. Do you often feel out of your depth when trying to improve your students’ fluency, especially at lower levels? What would get them to speak more, what would break those barriers and...
“Language teachers are especially well-poised to make a real difference in the lives of our students, and that is why we are but we are also not just teachers.” (Richard S. Pinner) Author: Ilinca Stroe, International House Bucharest It’s mid-2020 and with the covid-19 pandemic still in...
Authors: Matt Adams and Ethan Mansur. Article originally published in issue no. 46 of the IH Journal. A very frequent (and often inconvenient) situation: you have to cover a lesson for a fellow teacher. It’s usually a last-minute request which leaves you little time to prepare...
Author: Luke Armstrong. Article originally published in issue no. 46 of the IH Journal. So your students are advanced. What’s left to teach them? What English-language novelty can you still share with them? And are they still interested? Do they feel they still have something to...
Author: Ilinca Stroe, International House Bucharest Teachers who had worked online as a rule before the covid-19 crisis struck and forced us all into digital immigration will probably snigger at the title. Rightly so. Full-time online teachers had already gained solid experience teaching English online, so...
