Best Websites for Teaching English Abroad
See Where the ESL Jobs Are: Online But Off the Beaten Path by Duncan MacLeod for an overview of the top websites and TransitionsAbroad.com's
huge archive of articles on teaching English abroad by experts and participants alike to see many more recommendations for regional websites...
Tesall.com's Vertical Search Engine for Jobs Teaching English Abroad
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TransitionsAbroad.com strongly recommends the comprehensive ESL job search engine provided by www.tesall.com to find available teaching
positions abroad. In addition, Tesall.com provides a daily selection of the Top ESL Jobs,
the unique ESL Headline Ticker, an active ESL Forum, and Blogs which
discuss teaching English abroad from an insider's perspective.
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Websites by Category for Teachers of English Abroad
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Job Boards and Resources for Teaching ESL Overseas
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AAC's ESL Job Circle: www.aacircle.com.au/esl-job-circle.htm
ESL Cafe's International Job Board: www.eslcafe.com/joblist
ESL Job Feed: www.esljobfeed.com
ESL Job Find: www.esljobfind.com
ESL Teachers Board: www.eslteachersboard.com
Linguistic Funland: www.tesol.net/jobs
Mark's ESL World: www.marksesl.com
TeachOverseas.ca: www.teachoverseas.ca
TESall.com's Worldwide Job Board: www.tesall.com/jobboard/index.pl
TEFL.com: www.tefl.com
TEFL.net's ESL Job Offers: www.tefl.net/jobs/jobs.pl
ESL Teaching News and Commentary
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The TESall Ticker: www.tesall.com/ticker.php
ELT News: www.eltnews.com
EL Gazette: www.elgazette.com
ET Professional: www.etprofessional.com
Guardian TEFL: education.guardian.co.uk/tefl
ESL Teacher Training Information and Orientation
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ESL Cafe Teacher Training Forum: www.eslcafe.com/discussion/dz1/
Go Teach TESOL Primer: www.goteach.ca/tesol.html
TESall.com's Course Catalog: www.tesall.com/catalog.html
Cactus TEFL: www.cactustefl.com
English Job Maze: www.englishjobmaze.com/qu-ataglance.htm
EI's Your TEFL Training Options: www.english-international.com/training.html
Linguistic Funland: www.tesol.net/teslprog.teach.html
TEFL.com's Which Course? www.whichcourse.com
Free Graduate TESOL Guide: www.matesol.info
ESL Café Job Discussion Forum: forums.eslcafe.com/job/index.php
EnglishForums.com: www.englishforums.com
English School Watch: www.englishschoolwatch.org/webboard.php
TEFL.net: www.tefl.net/forums/index.php
TESall.com's Job Discussion Forum: www.tesall.com/international/index.pl
Acronyms for Teaching English as a Second Language
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Bogglesworld ESL Glossary: bogglesworldesl.com/glossary.htm
ITTO: www.teflcertificatecourses.com/tefl-articles/eflteaching-terminology.html
TESall.com's Newbie Primer: www.tesall.com/newbie.html
ESL Lesson Plans and Classroom Resources
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English Raven: www.englishraven.com
MES English.com: www.mes-english.com
ESL Lounge.com: www.esl-lounge.com
english-4u.com: www.english-4u.com
Breaking News English Daily: www.breakingnewsenglish.com
Boggle's World: bogglesworldesl.com
Developing Teachers.com: developingteachers.com
ESLgo.com: www.eslgo.com
TEACHall Resource Centre: www.tesall.com/teachall/index.pl
Worldwide Portals, Websites, and Resources for Teaching English Abroad
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English International, www.english-international.com, features information and advice on teaching English overseas by Jeff Mohammed, author
of Teaching English Overseas: A Job Guide for Americans & Canadians. See his Overview
of the TEFL Job Market for American and Canadian Teachers.
English Job Maze, www.englishjobmaze.com, lists ESL/EFL jobs and provides resources on how to become a teacher. See their excellent country-by-country breakdown
of ESL trends.
EnglishClub.com, www.englishclub.com, provides an excellent ESL/EFL links directory, which contains extensive collections of resources for both teachers
and students alike.
Dave’s ESL Cafe, www.eslcafe.com. This website has information about teaching English as a second language, either
abroad or in the U.S., as well as job databases. A recommended resource for anyone interested in teaching English abroad .
ESL Job Find, www.esljobfind.com. ESL Job Find connects Employers and Job Seekers worldwide. We have ESL job listings for Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan
in Asia, and other locations such as Europe and South America. .
Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships, www.us.fulbrightonline.org/thinking_teaching.html. Program for recent
university graduates to serve as English Teaching Assistants in Belgium/Luxembourg, France, Germany, Hungary, Korea, Taiwan and Turkey.
GlobalStudy, www.globalstudy.com - Guide to international education, including message boards and a directory of English language school websites in
the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
Peace Corps, www.peacecorps.gov. Sometimes overlooked because of its designation as a volunteer program,
Peace Corps is one of the largest work-abroad programs for U.S. citizens. It provides some of the best-paid teaching opportunities in less-wealthy regions such as Africa, Latin America, South and Southeast Asia, and even Eastern Europe
and the former USSR.
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab. This free multimedia site is designed to help English learners improve their listening comprehension through a variety of audio
and video conversations, interviews, and news reports. Randall Davis is the developer of this site, and he has written, recorded, and edited the materials as an independent project at his home in the USA.
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), www.tesol.org. Web site of a global association
that serves the needs of 14,000 English language teaching professionals representing over 140 countries. An essential resource for both ESL and EFL educators.
T.E.F.L. Board, www.teflboard.org, a site dedicated solely to the presentation of curriculum and program details on E.S.L. teacher training certificate
courses and diploma programs all over the world.
TEFL.NET, www.tefl.net, offers a TEFL Course Database, TEFL Jobs Center, TEFL Help Desk, ESL lesson plans and other teaching resources to teach English as a
foreign or second language.
TEFL Professional Network, www.tefl.com, has a huge on-line database of ESL jobs.
TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links, iteslj.org/links, is a no-nonsense compilation of links for students and teachers.
TESall.com, www.tesall.com, is the first vertical search portal for ESL/TEFL jobs and TransitionsAbroad.com's
favorite job search site.
Univ. of Michigan, International Center’s Overseas Opportunities Office, internationalcenter.umich.edu/swt/work/options/index.html.
See article on “Teaching Abroad Without Certification” which lists U.S.-based programs for teaching abroad that do not require professional TESL credentials.
Portals and Websites by Region/Country for Teaching English Abroad
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Web editor's note: See our country-by-country and regional English teaching directory for more websites and organizations.
Australia Academic Circle (AAC), www.aacircle.com.au, is a portal for teaching English in Taiwan, Korea, Japan or China as well as Europe. The
site provides ESL job boards and country profiles which discuss visa info, accommodations, taxes and TESL / TEFL courses.
Ajarn.com, www.ajarn.com. Job postings, resources and a discussion forum on teaching English in Thailand and issues surrounding.
Asiapond.com, www.asiapond.com, is a simple online jobs pool for teaching in Asia.
BENZHI, www.benzhi.com. Asian EFL job community.
Bogglesworldesl.com. English teaching job listings for China, Korea, and Japan.
China TEFL Network, www.chinatefl.com/indexe.asp, is a portal for jobs teaching English in China.
English School Watch, www.englishschoolwatch.org. Provides guidebooks about ESL labor contracts and selecting a recruiter and employer for teaching
English abroad. The site concentrates on South Korean opportunities, but provides inside information and jobs for teaching English worldwide.
ExpatriateCafe, www.expatriatecafe.com, has morphed from its focus on the ESL community in Spain towards being an excellent general expatriate community
site for Spain.
Inglesnet.com, The most complete guide for EFL learners in Argentina and Latin America. It provides very useful information, interesting links, complete
directories of national and international English teaching institutions and a lot more.
InternetWorks: Teach English in Mexico, www.teach-english-mexico.com, provides one-stop-shop for information and resources on teaching
English in Mexico.
Jobs in Japan, www.jobsinjapan.com, has loads of ESL job postings.
MadridTeacher.com, www.madridteacher.com. A site for teachers in Madrid, Spain, to advertise their services and to exchange information
about the local teaching market on the Forum.
Mekong ESL, www.mekongesl.com, has ESL opportunities in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.
O-Hayo Sensei, www.ohayosensei.com. Listings of ESL and other types of teaching positions in Japan.
Teach English in Poland, teachpoland.com, Job Boards, listing English language teaching jobs in Poland.
TEFL ASIA, www.teflasia.com, is an excellent portal for Asian ESL Jobs, Articles and Resources.
TESOL FRANCE, www.tesol-france.org, represents the interests of professionals in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) in France.
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