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More Than a Native Speaker: An Introduction to Teaching English Abroad
Accelerate your journey from novice to skilled teacher! In this newly updated third edition, learn step-by-step how to effectively teach English abroad. Gain valuable tips and resources for teaching in an unfamiliar educational system, working with students of varying ages and skill levels, and adapting to life in a different culture. Revised and updated with new research findings and suggestions for utilizing current technology and media tools, this text is also accompanied by a website that is packed with hundreds of activity ideas and links to additional teaching and learning resources.
308 pages, Paperback
Published March 10, 2017
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July 11, 2026
Amazing the connections! My dear father's name was Don Snow (a musician/music teacher) and for 40 years I taught English as a Second Language to study abroad college students, and I know well how the ESL profession is polluted by people who think that because they speak English, they can teach English, which, as this book's title "More Than a Native Speaker" points out, is absolutely not true.
The sad fact is that, in our culture, pedagogy, the art and skill of teaching adults is entirely ignored and devalued (except for K-12). The reigning myths of "if you know it you can teach it" and "those who can, do; those who can't, teach" and other such deflations of pedagogy, is rampant in the field of second language teaching when it comes to teaching English. What professional ESL teachers know is that ESL is a professional skill within the field of second language education. The college students, retired folks, travelers seeking extra bucks, and legions of native English speakers who end up in front of a classroom of people seeking to improve their English is laughable, people who neither know the grammar of their own language, nor how to conduct a classroom and execute a lesson, how to assess skill level, who have no understanding of language learning sequence, language skills such as pronunciation issues, cultural factors in language learning, student learning issues, and, and, and... It's crazy and sad for the millions of willing non-English speaking wishing to get help.
My guess is this book helps those legions of ESL teacher wannabes how to get started, kind of like any book whose purpose is to help an outsider survive or get by inside an actual profession. Thanks to Don Snow from Blaine Snow, a retired ESL professional, for an informed guide to the skill of teaching ESL.
The sad fact is that, in our culture, pedagogy, the art and skill of teaching adults is entirely ignored and devalued (except for K-12). The reigning myths of "if you know it you can teach it" and "those who can, do; those who can't, teach" and other such deflations of pedagogy, is rampant in the field of second language teaching when it comes to teaching English. What professional ESL teachers know is that ESL is a professional skill within the field of second language education. The college students, retired folks, travelers seeking extra bucks, and legions of native English speakers who end up in front of a classroom of people seeking to improve their English is laughable, people who neither know the grammar of their own language, nor how to conduct a classroom and execute a lesson, how to assess skill level, who have no understanding of language learning sequence, language skills such as pronunciation issues, cultural factors in language learning, student learning issues, and, and, and... It's crazy and sad for the millions of willing non-English speaking wishing to get help.
My guess is this book helps those legions of ESL teacher wannabes how to get started, kind of like any book whose purpose is to help an outsider survive or get by inside an actual profession. Thanks to Don Snow from Blaine Snow, a retired ESL professional, for an informed guide to the skill of teaching ESL.
November 4, 2023
Read this for my TEFL Course, I value how it also provides me some guidance to learning foreign languages myself.
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