And so there dawns a new TEFL year. While the haze of all of 2017’s gerunds and past participles and late-night Chang beers or Vietnamese pho is still sitting…
Help! I’m homesick when EFL teaching
Homesickness. Every traveler has had it at some point, right? After that initial hit of excitement has receded, you’ve had your fill of pad Thai noodles down the throbbing streets…
Why TEFL for Millennials is the perfect career choice
An escape from the rat race, plenty of job opportunities, and (maybe most importantly of all) a chance to travel and see the world โ there are oodles of reasons…
7 reasons location independent work is the future
The age of the office is ending; the age of the digital nomad is here. It’s something we’ve all heard from industry punters and working surveys over the last couple…
Not all TEFL teachers will be the type to settle straight in for a full-time position. Some will prefer to adventure and explore a little before they go for regular…
The 5 pitfalls new TEFL teachers face
From speedy sentences that simply can’t be understood to getting uncontrollable butterflies in the stomach, this list of 5 pitfalls that most all new TEFL teachers face is essential reading…
5 languages so hard they’ll make you glad you’re a TEFL teacher
Any English speaker who’s traveled the globe will know just how much natives of any tongue love to champion their lingo as the hardest going. But there’s no question that…
6 myths about TEFL teaching busted
Don’t listen to what they say: English teaching abroad is something you’ll only truly understand if you’ve done it! That’s why us helpful folk at myTEFL thought it best to…
5 reasons becoming a TEFL teacher is useful, even if you don’t teach
Who would have thought that simply becoming a TEFL teacher can be a fruitful process, even if you opt not to hit the classrooms and teach once you’ve got that…
5 ways to teach phrasal verbs
Combining the difficulties of idioms with the treacherous grammar requirements of verb usage, often fusing totally unrelated words together, and eventually coming up with a whole different meaning than you…