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Difficulties for Teachers Teaching South Korean Students - TEFL Blog
Sun, 19 May 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Difficulties for Teachers Teaching South Korean Students
Before starting my TEFL course to gain a more professional basis, I worked as an English teacher in South Korea for about one year. In this short essay, I will explain some of the most prominent difficulties South Korean students seem to face when learning English.
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Education system
Differences in the phonetic systems of Korean and English
Syntactic differences
Korean culture
Do you want to teach English in South-Korea?
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This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Laura M.
Education system
First and foremost, the educational structure in South Korea is quite different from those of Europe or the United States. Korean kids... [Read more]
Overview of All the Documents You Will Need to Teach English Abroad - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Overview of All the Documents You Will Need to Teach English Abroad
05/13/2021
hi guys hi linda here from itt with another live
session this week super excited to be here again um
thanks so much for tuning in today and if you're listening to this as a podcast episode
thanks so much for the download we really really appreciated as you might know we turn all of our
live live sessions into podcast episodes and you can find our podcast on all major podcast platforms like
itunes google podcasts spotify um yeah you just search for
itttt or it's actually called the tefl and tesol podcast by itt
and you can find all our episodes there as well so hi guys hi tiana
hi thanks so much for tuning in today how are you how are you
awesome i'm so excited to be here again and i think today's topic is... [Read more]
Live Session: Overview Of All The Documents You Will Need To Teach English Abroad - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Live Session: Overview of All the Documents You Will Need to Teach English Abroad
Hi guys, Linda here from ITTT with another live session. Super excited to be here again, thanks so much for tuning in today and if you're listening to this as a podcast episode thanks so much for the download, we really appreciated it. We turn all of our live sessions into podcast episodes and you can find them on all major podcast platforms like iTunes, Google Podcasts, and Spotify. Just search for the TEFL and TESOL Podcast by ITTT and you will find all our episodes there.
Hi Tiana, thanks so much for tuning in today. How are you? I'm so excited to be here again and I think today's topic is going to be really interesting for people who want to go abroad and teach. We're going to talk about all the... [Read more]
Live Session: Overview of All the Documents You Will Need to Teach English Abroad - TEFL Blog
Fri, 04 Jun 2021 Federico Riva
Budget and Salary TEFL Information Teaching Ideas
Live Session: Overview of All the Documents You Will Need to Teach English Abroad
Hi guys, Linda here from ITTT with another live session. Super excited to be here again, thanks so much for tuning in today and if you're listening to this as a podcast episode thanks so much for the download, we really appreciated it. We turn all of our live sessions into podcast episodes and you can find them on all major podcast platforms like iTunes, Google Podcasts, and Spotify. Just search for the TEFL and TESOL Podcast by ITTT and you will find all our episodes there.
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Awesome, so keep watching for the documents and let's jump in now we have a good group of people.
Okay,... [Read more]
Teaching English in South Korea - What you need to know! - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Teaching English in South Korea - What you need to know!
02/03/2021
hi and welcome to another live session by itt my name is
linda and i'm here today um to talk about teaching english in south
korea so welcome welcome um i'm just gonna wait for um people to join please do let me
know if you can hear me if you can see me or if you're not if you can't hear me if there's a problem if anything's wrong
uh because that would be um bad obviously so
yeah drop a comment um just leave a high and uh where you're tuning in from that
would be really helpful let me know where you guys are watching
from and um yeah i can see a few people have joined already
hi thanks so much for joining awesome okay i got a yes i can hear you
from mika awesome or micah sorry if i pronounce that wrong but yeah
uh yeah... [Read more]
8 Big Mistakes To Avoid When Applying for TEFL Jobs - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
8 Big Mistakes To Avoid When Applying for TEFL Jobs
05/02/2022
hello hi linda here from itt back with another live session this week
i told you same time same place i would be here so i hope you are too
thank you for taking some time out of your day today to spend it with me today we're going to talk about applying for
tefl jobs eight big mistakes to avoid
that's today's topic kind of continuing on our like job seeking
series um i did a couple of those kind of job related videos or live sessions in the
past few weeks so i thought this would fit perfectly into our little collection
um as always we do save our previous live sessions in our playlists um you
can find them on facebook you can also find them on youtube just like we are live on both platforms today so we are
live on facebook and... [Read more]
Teaching English in South Korea - What you need to know! - TEFL Blog
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 Federico Riva
Destinations TEFL Information
Teaching English in South Korea - What you need to know!
Hi and welcome to another live session from ITTT. My name is Linda and I'm here today to talk about teaching English in South Korea.
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Mandy has asked if I teach in a public or private school or is it all private?
I can see a lot of questions already coming in, that's awesome. Great question from Amy. Should anyone even bother looking into teaching abroad while there are COVID lockdowns in place?
Mandy says, I'm interested in teaching abroad but South Korea is my ultimate place to teach. I just got done with the TEFL course and I have to finish my practicum to get my certificate.
Amy asks, does he still celebrate his... [Read more]
Teaching English In South Korea What You Need To Know! - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Teaching English in South Korea - What you need to know!
Hi and welcome to another live session from ITTT. My name is Linda and I'm here today to talk about teaching English in South Korea.
Let me just show you today's topic so that everybody who's joining knows what's happening today. Today we're talking about teaching English in South Korea and I'm so excited about this topic and it's actually been a super requested topic every time I do a live session. I've been living in Korea for almost six years and I have been teaching a few different classes. I have done summer camps and winter camps and teaching kids and teaching adults, teaching business English, teaching conversation, teaching full-time at a kindergarten and elementary school with afternoon programs and stuff like that.... [Read more]
8 Mistakes to Avoid When Applying to EFL Teaching Jobs - TEFL Blog
Fri, 21 Apr 2023 Federico Riva
TEFL Information Alumni Experiences
8 Mistakes to Avoid When Applying to EFL Teaching Jobs
In this blog post, we will look at 8 common mistakes made by applicants in their applications for ESL teaching positions.
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We are going to look at eight of the biggest mistakes to avoid when applying for an ESL teaching job.
1. Follow the instruction given about how to apply
2. Proofread your Application before sending
3. Not attaching a cover letter.
4. Not addressing the letter to a person.
5. Applying in a country where you don't meet the requirements.
6. Applying for a job you're not qualified for.
7. Not providing proof of English proficiency if you're a non-native speaker.
8. Not attaching a photo.
Are you... [Read more]
Teaching Abroad: Saving Money & Paying off Loans - Here's how! - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Teaching Abroad: Saving Money & Paying off Loans - Here's how!
07/29/2021
hi guys hello welcome to another live session my name is linda from itt and today
we're going to talk about a very very exciting topic i'm sure a lot of you are going to find it useful
it's all going to be about how to save money and also pay off loans and debt when teaching
english abroad um yeah so thank you so much for joining if you can see me if you can hear me as
always please just leave a hi in the comment section i'd really appreciate it so that i know that you
can see me and hear me because you know sometimes there are technical difficulties um and i might be aware of it so just
kindly let me know in the comment section um and yeah thank you so much for being
here again today uh last week's live... [Read more]
What to Watch Out for Before Signing Your TEFL Contract - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
What to Watch Out for Before Signing Your TEFL Contract
07/15/2021
hello hi welcome to another live session from itt
my name is linda um yeah welcome back this week
if you've noticed last week our live or my life was actually on a different day different time um if you've seen it it
was really really interesting i had some really really interesting guests two
sisters from australia who are currently teaching in japan under the jet program and we had a
lovely chat it was really fun so if you have not seen that i highly recommend checking it out if you're interested in teaching
abroad uh teaching in japan if you're from australia check it out two really lovely girls it
was so much fun talking about what it's like to teach in japan and this week i have i'm here by myself
again and i have... [Read more]
How Teaching English Abroad Enhances Your Career Prospects - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
How Teaching English Abroad Enhances Your Career Prospects
05/27/2021
hello everyone hello tefl friends how are you doing
linda here from itt back again with another live session super excited to be here today
to talk about this this exciting topic um teaching english abroad and how it
enhances your career prospects so i'm just gonna wait uh for a couple of
people to join you know how it usually works and um yeah once we're our a good sized
group of people we can start diving into this topic and if you can hear me if you can see me
please just leave a comment we are live on facebook and on youtube at the same time so
wherever you're watching from just leave a quick hi or hello into the comment section and also let me know where you are
watching from i am in south korea about an hour and... [Read more]
Top Tips for Teaching English to Young Learners - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Top Tips for Teaching English to Young Learners
02/18/2023
hi welcome Linda here from ITT back this
week with another live session I hope you're doing well thank you so much for joining me today I'm happy to see you if
you can see me and if you can hear me clearly if everything's working please just leave a high in the comment section
and uh maybe also let me know where you are right now where are you watching
from today what time is it there how are you doing let me know in the comments we are live on Facebook and on YouTube at
the same time and we also always turn our live sessions into podcast episodes so if you're listening to this as a
podcast thank you so much for the download and thank you so much for listening we really appreciate that
don't forget to like And subscribe um so... [Read more]
10 Advantages of Taking a TEFL Course with ITTT - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
10 Advantages of Taking a TEFL Course with ITTT
09/11/2021
hi hello everyone linda here from itt back with another live session this week this
week at a very different time a time i've never been live before it's very exciting
um it is 8 p.m where i am right now in south korea on a friday evening and yeah
i thought why not give this time a try and see what happens i usually go live
like um 10 hours earlier so in the morning time for me but now i just thought let's
see what happens because we we're gonna switch some times up sometimes you know to
get other people in who maybe don't have a chance to watch it in the morning time so yeah hi and welcome if you can see me
if you can hear me please just leave a quick hello in the comments we are live on
facebook and on youtube at the same time... [Read more]
Navigating the EFL Job Market in 2023 - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Navigating the EFL Job Market in 2023
01/16/2023
hi Linda here welcome back to another live session from ITT
um I'm so happy to be here this week again with another exciting topic so this week we are actually going to talk
about how to navigate the job market for English teachers in 2023 and I'm going
to talk about um all the things you need to know for finding a job for getting started as an
English teacher abroad and also online so if your plan is to start teaching
English in the near future this live session will be for you today and I hope you're going to learn something
um yeah right off the bat please don't forget to like And subscribe so you never miss any of our upcoming live
sessions we go live every week same place same time I'm right here and I
hope you will join me again so... [Read more]
How much money can you REALLY earn when teaching English? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
How much money can you REALLY earn when teaching English?
05/06/2021
hi guys hi another live session this week my name is linda from itt
nice to see you again if you can see me if you can hear me just say hi into the comment section it would
be really really nice um yeah back this week with another exciting topic
as you can see teaching english how much money can you really make
okay very interesting topic we all need to know how much money we can make
obviously if we want to go and teach english abroad or i'm also going to cover how much money you can make when you
teach online so very very important topics
um that we are covering today and yeah thanks so much for watching if
you are listening to this as a podcast episode thank you so much for the download
as you might know we always... [Read more]
The Best Countries for Teaching English in 2021 - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
The Best Countries for Teaching English in 2021
12/17/2020
hello hello hello and welcome to another live session my name is
linda from itt and you can find me on social media at linda ghost east um
yeah thanks for tuning in let me just see that everything's working if you can see
me and if you can hear me please um leave a comment as always you
know the drill and yeah this is actually our last
um live session or my last live session we have another one on tuesday from my
colleague lisa but me it's my last live session before christmas and so um i wanted to get a little
festive this is my attempt at being festive so um yeah that's what we're working with
today um yeah if you can see me and hear me please leave a comment that would be
really really awesome yay awesome it starts yeah
hi... [Read more]
A LIVE Look into ITTT's TEFL/TESOL Course Platform - TEFL Blog
Thu, 04 Mar 2021 Federico Riva
TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
A LIVE Look into ITTT's TEFL/TESOL Course Platform
Please let me know where in your TEFL journey you are at right now? Are you currently taking a course? Are you thinking of taking a course? Are you already teaching English as a foreign language? That'd also be really cool to know—somebody from Brazil, UK. Two people are from Brazil awesome, okay, with Bolivia amazing UK, Philippines, somebody is also from South Korea.
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Every unit has a test after it that you need to complete, and I'm going to show you right now what it looks like.
Here's a good question are there virtual sessions in the course, or is it completely independent?
All right, is there a... [Read more]
A Look Inside: TEFL/TESOL and Teaching English Abroad or Online - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
A Look Inside: TEFL/TESOL and Teaching English Abroad or Online
10/16/2022
all right looks like we're live awesome
this is great so thanks so much for um tuning in today for our actually very
first facebook live and i'm super happy to be here with jessica today
from go overseas hi everybody and um yeah we're gonna talk today about
all things um teaching english abroad online and everything in between all things
tefl and tesol and all that good stuff and um i'm actually tuning in live from south
korea it's 9 00 am friday where i am and i think jessica is in southern california right yep it's 5 p.m here so
just starting to get dark i've actually just realized i'm probably going to need the light before the session is over so i'm going to run and do that now while
linda's just there's no... [Read more]
A LIVE Look Into ITTT's TEFL/TESOL Course Platform - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
A LIVE Look into ITTT's TEFL/TESOL Course Platform
Please let me know where in your TEFL journey you are at right now? Are you currently taking a course? Are you thinking of taking a course? Are you already teaching English as a foreign language? That'd also be really cool to know—somebody from Brazil, UK. Two people are from Brazil awesome, okay, with Bolivia amazing UK, Philippines, somebody is also from South Korea.
A lot of people are thinking of enrolling, great! Then, this life will be perfect for you. Somebody is from Canada, Mexico, and Mongolia. This is our second live Q&A sort of video that we've been doing. We started last week, and last week we sort of did a general kind of Q&A section.
If any of you were watching last week, please also let me know in the... [Read more]
How Much Money Can You REALLY Earn When Teaching English? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
How Much Money Can You REALLY Earn When Teaching English?
Hi guys, my name is Linda from ITTT, nice to see you again. If you can see me and hear me just say hi in the comment section, it would be really nice. Yeah, back this week with another exciting topic, how much money can you really make teaching English? Very interesting topic as we all need to know how much money we can make if we want to go and teach English abroad. I'm also going to cover how much money you can make when you teach online, so very important topics that we are covering today.
If you are listening to this as a podcast episode, thank you so much for the download. As you might know we always turn our live sessions into podcast episodes that you can find on Spotify, Google Podcasts, iTunes, all of your most... [Read more]
How Teaching English Abroad Enhances Your Career Prospects - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
How Teaching English Abroad Enhances Your Career Prospects
Hello everyone, how are you doing? Linda from ITTT, back again with another live session. I’m super excited to be here today to talk about this exciting topic, teaching English abroad and how it enhances your career prospects.
I'm just going to wait for a couple more people to join, you know how it usually works. Once we are a good sized group of people we can start diving into this topic. If you can hear me and if you can see me please leave a comment. We are live on Facebook and on YouTube at the same time, so wherever you're watching from just leave a quick hi or hello in the comment section and also let me know where you are watching from. I am in South Korea about an hour and a half south of Seoul in a city called... [Read more]
How Much Money Can You REALLY Earn When Teaching English? - TEFL Blog
Tue, 25 May 2021 Federico Riva
Destinations TEFL Information Alumni Experiences
How Much Money Can You REALLY Earn When Teaching English?
Hi guys, my name is Linda from ITTT, nice to see you again. If you can see me and hear me just say hi in the comment section, it would be really nice. Yeah, back this week with another exciting topic, how much money can you really make teaching English? Very interesting topic as we all need to know how much money we can make if we want to go and teach English abroad. I'm also going to cover how much money you can make when you teach online, so very important topics that we are covering today.
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Watch the live session here
Hi Brad, welcome back. I have a question from Clint, he asks how is dating there?
Allain says, I follow you and... [Read more]
Overview Of TEFL And TESOL For Teaching English Abroad Or Online - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Overview of TEFL and TESOL for Teaching English Abroad or Online
All right, looks like we're live! Awesome! This is great. So thanks so much for tuning in today for our actually very first Facebook live and I'm super happy to be here with Jessica today from GoOverseas. We're gonna talk today about all things teaching English abroad, online, and everything in between. All things TEFL and TESOL and all that good stuff and I'm actually tuning in live from South Korea where it's 9 00 am Friday and I think Jessica is in Southern California. Right, yep it's 5 p.m here so just starting to get dark. I've actually just realized I'm probably going to need the light before the session is over so i'm going to run and do that now while Linda just explains today’s topic. No problem, cool.
... [Read more]
Overview of TEFL and TESOL for Teaching English Abroad or Online - TEFL Blog
Thu, 25 Feb 2021 Linda Dunsmore
TEFL Information Teaching Ideas
Overview of TEFL and TESOL for Teaching English Abroad or Online
All right, looks like we're live! Awesome! This is great. So thanks so much for tuning in today for our actually very first Facebook live and I'm super happy to be here with Jessica today from GoOverseas. We're gonna talk today about all things teaching English abroad, online, and everything in between. All things TEFL and TESOL and all that good stuff and I'm actually tuning in live from South Korea where it's 9 00 am Friday and I think Jessica is in Southern California. Right, yep it's 5 p.m here so just starting to get dark. I've actually just realized I'm probably going to need the light before the session is over so i'm going to run and do that now... [Read more]
Alumni TEFL Chat with Maddy & Georgia - Two Aussie Sisters Teaching English in Japan - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Alumni TEFL Chat with Maddy & Georgia - Two Aussie Sisters Teaching English in Japan
07/08/2021
all right hi hey everyone hi as you can see it's not only me this
week welcome to our live stream we have guests today i'm super happy about it hi maddie hi
georgia hello hey so yeah back here another for another week and
i'm live on a different day i usually go live on fridays so today is very special
and also because we have guests so i'm super happy about that
and yeah if you are watching if you can see us if you can hear us please just leave a high in the comments that would
be really cool and where you're watching from i'm always really curious about where people are watching from
and um yeah i'm in south korea my name is linda from itt if you don't know me and i'm yeah
about an hour... [Read more]
The Top 10 Questions You Need to Ask Before Enrolling In a TEFL/TESOL Course - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
The Top 10 Questions You Need to Ask Before Enrolling In a TEFL/TESOL Course
02/14/2021
hi hi and welcome to another live session my name is
linda from itt and um yeah i'm back again this week um who would have thought no uh but
we're pretty consistent uh with um our live events so we are going live
twice a week me one time and then my colleague lisa one time
and um yeah so happy to be here today guys let me know if you can see me
if you can hear me and also where you're watching from just drop in um hi watching from
so and so into the comment section that would be really really great and yeah
um i'm super excited to be here again today
um normally i go live on fridays um well friday morning in south korea i'm
in south korea but today i'm going live on thursday um because we are actually... [Read more]
TEFL Indonesia - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ Tefl Teachers Needed In Jakarta Indonesia
TEFL Teachers Needed in Jakarta, Indonesia
Date posted:2012-07-05 | Writer: The Wall Street Institute Indonesia | Email: [email protected]
Wall Street Institute has opportunities for TEFL qualified teachers in Jakarta. We are one of the world's most successful private English language schools and currently operate in 28 countries with over 400 centers. With just 5 years in business in Jakarta, WSI's success has been phenomenal – now over 8,000 students! WSI's students are mostly in their late teens, twenties or thirties, and are a blend of university students, office workers, high school students, housewives, and even celebrities. They are generally well-read and well-traveled, making them great conversationalists.Wall Street Institute is owned by Pearson, the largest and... [Read more]
Teaching English in 2021: Setting Realistic TEFL Goals - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Teaching English in 2021: Setting Realistic TEFL Goals
01/07/2021
hello and welcome to another live session from itt my name is linda and yeah it's so good
to have you here if you can see me and if you can hear me please leave a comment that would be really
really helpful so that i know that everything is working well because i think sometimes
there is an issue with my mic i don't know what's wrong today um but oh okay somebody already said hi
or hey hey mansi thanks for joining that's awesome okay so i guess you guys can hear me you
can't see me so it's great perfect
hello hi tiana cool
so sometimes my mic kind of turns off i don't know why that is weird but at least i get a notification
and i just have to turn it back on i'm so sorry about that don't know why that keeps happening... [Read more]
The Peak Hiring Seasons for Teaching English Abroad - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
The Peak Hiring Seasons for Teaching English Abroad
02/20/2023
hello welcome Linda here from ITT back
this week with another live session welcome welcome today we're going to talk about the top hiring seasons for
teaching English abroad so we're going to cover different regions Europe Asia
Latin America Central America um and different countries specifically
in these regions and the top hiring seasons for each of those countries so
you know exactly when to apply for the job for an English teaching job in the
country that you want to teach in so um a couple weeks ago we talked about
um tefl interviews and how to find jobs Etc so now this is kind of part of this
series and just to yeah give you an overview of the top hiring season so
that you know exactly when you should be applying for... [Read more]