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The benefits of teaching in Japan

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Number one: cosplay

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Only joking- I mean of course that the status of English teachers is not so obviously low that when I met the love of my life and asked her to marry me she actually agreed!

You won’t hear a lot about it on the TEFL forums, but there are actually a lot of other advantages to choosing Japan to teach in: (more…)

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17 easy ways to write a TEFL blog post, article or workshop plan

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

17. (Teaching) English is like…
One or a connected string of metaphors for teaching or learning a language being like playing a sport, walking dogs, hunting etc, with ways you can convert that into practical classroom practices
16. Teaching in…
A particular country, a particular kind of school, a particular kind of classroom etc.

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