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Can anyone advise which would be the most useful qualification for Teaching English as a Second Language?
Plan is to teach English - either in Australia or in Asia. Or does it not matter, so long as one has ONE of these? thx
  

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[nq:1]Can anyone advise which would be the most useful qualification for Teaching English as a Second Language? Plan is to teach English - either in Australia or in Asia. Or does it not matter, so long as one has ONE of these?

  • [nq:1]Can anyone advise which would be the most useful qualification for Teaching English as a Second Language?
  • Plan is to teach English - either in Australia or in Asia.
  • Or does it not matter, so long as one has ONE of these?
  • thx[/nq] CELTA is the only one of these acronyms that refers to a teaching qualification.
  • Don't touch anything else with the exception of Trinity Certificate.
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[nq:1]Can anyone advise which would be the most useful qualification for Teaching English as a Second Language? Plan is to teach English - either in Australia or in Asia. Or does it not matter, so long as one has ONE of these? thx[/nq]
CELTA is the only one of these acronyms that refers to a teaching qualification. Don't touch anything else with the exception of Trinity Certificate.
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There are a few thousand institutions in the world that offer some kind of basic teacher training course and give you a certificate at the end. They usually go by the name of "Certificate in Teaching English and a Foreign Language" or "Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages." Welcome to the alphabet soup of this business.

Generally speaking, these programs are unde
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[nq:1]Can anyone advise which would be the most useful qualification for Teaching English as a Second Language? Plan is to teach English - either in Australia or in Asia. Or does it not matter, so long as one has ONE of these? thx[/nq]
Depends where you are planning to take the course.

In the US they call it Tesol, Canada Tesl, Celta in Europe.

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