{"id":1891,"date":"2013-07-07T10:44:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T10:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2013-07-07T10:44:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T10:44:13","slug":"tackling-the-tefl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/07\/tackling-the-tefl\/","title":{"rendered":"Tackling the TEFL"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TEFL<\/a>Samantha enjoyed a challenge, which was a good job really considering a huge one loomed before her! Her husband had been offered a job in southern Spain and it was too good an opportunity to miss, so they\u00b4d decided to relocate there with their three children.<\/p>\n

The plan was that, once she\u00b4d got the kids settled in school, she\u00b4d earn a bit of cash herself by teaching English to the Spanish children. She\u00b4d get to know the other parents and offer extra tuition after school to help the kids with their speaking skills.<\/p>\n

In order to do this, however, Samantha had to gain a formal qualification known as the TEFL, Teaching English as a Foreign Language<\/i>. She knew a couple of people who had already gained their TEFL qualification and they\u00b4d warned her that, despite being born and bred Brits who\u00b4d spoken English all of their lives, they\u00b4d struggled with some of the grammar aspects and found the terminology relating to teaching English a little tricky. Samantha knew this was only natural as people get used to speaking without thinking and become lazy in their knowledge of language construction, but she thought she\u00b4d better brush up on her skills nonetheless.<\/p>\n

She found some private one-to-one English language training classes in Coventry<\/a><\/b> where she lived. The tutor was willing to structure the lessons around the requirements needed for Samantha to be able to pass the TEFL teacher training course. Soon afterwards, thanks to the expert tuition she received, Samantha was confident enough that she could complete the TEFL course with ease.<\/p>\n

Now, with her TEFL certificate firmly in her hand, Samantha is preparing to make the move to Spain and is looking forward to the teaching challenges that await her there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Samantha enjoyed a challenge, which was a good job really considering a huge one loomed before her! Her husband had been offered a job in southern Spain and it was too good an opportunity to miss, so they\u00b4d decided to relocate there with their three children. The plan was that, once she\u00b4d got the kids […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,26],"tags":[380,813,330],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-english","category-grammar","tag-british-english","tag-english-language","tag-speaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/1895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}