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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Author: Ilinca Stroe Whether you are a more or a less experienced teacher, surely you must have, at some point, lived a moment when, casually monitoring your students mid-activity, you were shocked to notice that they were doing something totally unrelated to what they had been...
Article originally published in the IH Journal, issue 47. Author: Amy Gowers. How do you feel about teaching teenagers? Intimidated? Uncomfortable? Out of your depth? Downright terrified? No, no, no: no need to worry, really. Teens are cool. So are you. This article gives you the...
Author: Ilinca Stroe Tick tock. It’s almost here: that time of the year when we’re all starting to sense magic in the air. The world around us is turning festive and celebratory, as glittery lights and shiny colourful decorations take over the town. And our students’...
Author: Ilinca Stroe, International House Bucharest 21 October 2019: “Hi! Do you have any recommendations for a native English speaker that works with kids?” The request was posted on a +15,000-member Facebook group for expats living in Romania and it immediately rang a bell. An unpleasant...
Article originally published in the IH Journal, issue 45. Author: Anna Golc. Wait! Is that the all so familiar EFL, up in the headline? Or something else? It’s actually ELF. Not “English as a foreign language”, but “English as a lingua franca”. A momentum-gaining approach to...
Article originally published in the IH Journal, issue 44. Author: Xana de Nagy. How green are your students? How sustainable are your teaching and their learning? The 3 Rs used to be about reading, writing and arithmetic. In today’s world, however, we should all nurture awareness...
Author: Ilinca Stroe, International House Bucharest When it comes to determining which is more important, grammar or vocabulary, teachers of English as a foreign language usually have their favourite: some of us love teaching grammar, whereas some others find teaching vocabulary a thousand times more fun....
Author: Ilinca Stroe Let’s admit it: teachers, especially language teachers such as we TEFLers*, love to be liked by their students! Whenever we get this kind of feedback (“The students really like you”) from an observer, a trainer or an academic manager, we feel good about...
Author: Ilinca Stroe Quite often, teachers of English as a foreign language (and, most probably, teachers of other languages, too) find themselves in the following situation: in the middle of a reading, speaking or writing activity, a student turns to them as to a dictionary, asking...
Article originally published on the IH Journal blog. Author: Alex Zagorac. If you’re looking for ideas to add fun and variety to both your adult classes and your young learner groups, here’s some inspiring input for you. Puppets can be a great asset for on-spot, improvisation-based...
