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Hi.

Many thanks for the reply.

I will be looking in the usual places (e.g. 'https://jobs.gaijinpot.com/ ' etc.), but is there many smaller schools that advertise outside of Japan apart from the big chain schools?

Thanks again.

Hello. I have recently finished my CELTA and hopefully will be looking for TEFL jobs in Japan as soon as I have sorted my house to rent out. Instead of taking the ALT route, I would like to go straight into teaching myself with the possibility of being in Japan for several years (fingers crossed). I...

Thanks Alex.

I will check my library for Essential Grammar in Use (although I probably end up buying it anyway).

Thanks for all your help.

Thanks 'systematic' for your reply. These books are considered by many to be among the 'Bibles' of teaching English as a foreign language. Murphy, R. (2000) Essential Grammar in Use Cambridge University press ISBN 0521559286 Harmer J. (2001) The Practice of English Language Teaching Longman ISBN 058...

Hi Alex. Thanks for the response. Are you a native or non-native speaker of English? I am a native speaker, although kind of shocked at how little I know about grammar!!! Although I must be at some sort of 'level' to get on the course. Once you're on the course, there will also be a pre-course task ...

Hello all. Can anyone help? I have a question that probably has been asked a hundred times, but I can’t seem to find an answer anywhere. I have been accepted on a CELTA course which I start in five weeks. I am really starting to panic because no matter how much I study grammar, it doesn’t seem to be...

Thanks for the advice Systematic. Thanks for the extra information on the little known PTTLS. AS the CELTA is offered by a division of Cambridge University, it is quite possible that the government has accorded a PTTLS equivalence to it. After doing some more research, and to shed some further light...

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