Become an ESL Teacher

Teach English as a Second Language

by Kay Oxenham

In this TopJobGuide® you'll find an overview of ESL as a profession along with specific advice on how to become an ESL teacher. You can begin with a quick check to see if you've really got what it takes to succeed and then find out how to go about getting started. You can discover the qualifications you'll need and the type of training courses available.

The key terms you'll need to interpret the job ads and de-mystify some of the industry jargon are all clarified. There's a whole list of abbreviations explained too.

You'll read interviews with real teachers talking about how they got into ESL and what they like best about it.

There are useful forms and plenty of examples taken from my own experience.

You can discover the delights of the job and the pitfalls. What sort of work you can expect in Australia and how that compares to working overseas.

Do you want to know the sort of questions you could be asked at interview, the best websites to check out for ESL jobs and information, and the best books to take with you? Then read on…