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Free teacher workshops this November in Barcelona

Luke Worsnop 15/10/2019

We are looking forward to the next round of free teacher workshops coming up at Oxford TEFL in Barcelona! Join us on one, or more,

Life after Taking the Trinity DipTESOL: Treading Water to Making Waves

Oxford TEFL Team 04/10/2019

After 20 years of working abroad in Turkey, Gabon, Bahrain, and Kazakhstan, David Dodgson has now returned to the UK as the EAL Coordinator at

Graduate Story: Michelle Knepel

Oxford TEFL Team 03/10/2019

Michelle Knepel is a recent graduate of our Cambridge CELTA course, Business English and Teaching Young Learners courses in Barcelona, Spain. She spent the last

5 Surprising Things About Europe – And How To Make Them Work for You

Blythe Hooker 02/10/2019

When it comes to ESL teaching opportunities, as a non-EU, it’s hard to refuse the chance to work and live in Europe. Delicious food? Bring

What is the ‘grammar’ exam of the Trinity Diploma and how do I pass it?

Lindsay Clandfield 01/10/2019

Lindsay Clandfield is a Canadian trainer, teacher and award-winning author. He is a tutor on our Trinity DipTESOL course and the Course Director of our teacher development courses.He’s

Could you be our next InnovateELT Conference Organiser?

Oxford TEFL Team 30/09/2019

Position: Conference Organiser Conference location: Barcelona Start: October 2019 End: June 2020 Part-time: Time commitment to be discussed About us: During the last five years,

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10 Tools for Developing Students’ Listening Skills

Nik Peachey 23/09/2019

For many students improving their listening skills is the hardest of the four skills to master. Unlike reading, listening happens in real time and it

Podcasts: a multiskill tool

Tyson Seburn 20/09/2019

In which ways have you been experimenting with listening to content in class? One popular mode of listening to content in recent years has been

Graduate Story: James Kalmanson

Oxford TEFL Team 10/09/2019

James is a photographer from Florida, United States and he completed our Cambridge CELTA course in Barcelona in August 2019. He now hopes to

Finding a TEFL Teaching Salary That Works For You

Blythe Hooker 04/09/2019

As an English teacher living abroad, I am a member of countless expat, ESL teaching, and digital nomad Facebook groups. Like many of my fellow

Meet Maya: Developing Teacher with Spanish graduate

Oxford TEFL Team 30/08/2019

Maya Dileep Kumar is originally from India and came to Barcelona in November 2017. She completed her TEFL course in June 2018 and the Developing Teacher with

7 Tips for Helping Students Develop their Body language in the ELT Classroom

Nik Peachey 12/08/2019

Body language has long been seen by communications specialists as a key component of the way we interact with others, with researchers claiming that anything

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Essential Skills for Teaching Young Learners

Charlotte Giller 06/08/2019

A knowledge of English is now considered a basic life skill in many contexts, and as a result it is increasingly being offered to more

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How can we reduce our climate/carbon/plastic footprints across the ELT profession?

Oxford TEFL Team 05/08/2019

Mariam Oganesian is a TEFL-qualified English teacher, linguist, owner and CEO of a language school called “M-GROUP” in the Ukraine. She also has a master’s

Top tips for overcoming common challenges when teaching Business English

Oxford TEFL Team 08/07/2019

Are you worried about starting to teach Business English (“BE”) because you have mainly taught Young Learners so far in your career? Or are you

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Leadership in ELT. What makes a good communicator?

Duncan Foord 02/07/2019

In the second of three articles on Leadership, Duncan Foord looks at how teachers can develop their communication skills by transferring the approach they use

What is the Trinity DipTESOL unit 3 phonology interview like and how can you pass it?

Nicola Meldrum 21/06/2019

Developing how to teach pronunciation is one of the main reasons teachers choose the Trinity Dip TESOL over the DELTA. As course director, I interview

Blinded by the light – understanding and reducing the environmental impact of ELT.

Oxford TEFL Team 17/06/2019

Article by Christopher Graham I was quite surprised to be asked to write this blog. I am, after all, a car-driving, frequent-flying, meat-eating, supermarket-shopping kind

Managing teacher confidence

Oxford TEFL Team 12/06/2019

In the classroom I often say that my job is not to teach English: it’s to boost students’ confidence so that they can use what

9 Tools for Making the Classroom Paperless

Oxford TEFL Team 10/06/2019

There are many reasons for making your classroom paperless. Beyond the ecological ones of saving paper and hours of time and stress spent in front

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