What is TESOL

The acronym TESOL stands for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. There are other acronyms like TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language), EFL (English as a Foreign Language), and others that I may use within this site. But basically the TESOL will be the school of thought I will use the most. Hopefully you’ve picked up that this will be about teaching English whether it is to adults or children or ages in between. The students are at various levels of English speaking and comprehension from no English to a limited vocabulary. I will be going over techniques I plan on using and techniques that I have used. But I’ll try to keep the technical stuff to a minimum as this site is about my journey and not just my classes. After all I’m not trying to put you to sleep with the boring stuff.

In my journey, I will take you from my decision on what age group I wanted to teach, to what countries are available for teachers. Many countries need teachers of English, some more than others, and some countries are even sending their children to other countries to learn English. An example is the influx of Korean students to the Philippines because English is the common second language in the Philippines. There are schools for teaching English to Korean students popping up all over that country. So the opportunity for me to find a job is very good especially in the Philippines where I hope to be based. I will talk about this in a later post.