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Re: Intesol
Posted By: Cynthia <sirenii@juno.com> In Response To: Re: Intesol (Mark)
Date: Friday, 13 July 2012, at 9:50 p.m.
Potential employers want to know that you've had at least six hours of observed ESL teaching practice. That you've had some teaching experience with undergraduate students is a good thing and great for your resume, but if you think it's a substitute for or equivalent to teaching non-native speakers in another country, you are sadly mistaken. I taught undergrads briefly as a grad student many years ago, but teaching South Korean adults, as I do now, is a whole other kettle of fish. Did your teaching experience necessitate showing students how their tongue and teeth should be positioned to make "L" and "R" sounds? Did it include your students asking the rules that determine whether you should use present perfect or present progressive or how you can predict how past tense "-ed" endings will be pronounced? I've instructed students, in a slow, friendly, vocabulary conscious manner, to start reading aloud on a certain page only to have them nod, smiling, and start reading another page entirely because they didn't understand anything I said. I don't mind these things, in fact, they help me know where my students are in their skill levels, but there is no comparison to what I did as a TA teaching Freshman Critical Reading and Writing. I say all this not to discourage you, but to impress upon you how important it is to offer the best ESL teaching methodologies you can muster to help them achieve their objectives. I have no idea what France requires, but many of the jobs outside of Europe I've been browsing will not consider an online certification. Still, Intesol would not stay in business if its grads were not getting jobs, so it must work some places. That you are doing your research on eslcafe is really wise. Read the International Job Forum postings for the countries you're interested in, which will tell you a lot. All best to you as you begin what can be an extremely gratifying career.
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