Can I teach English as foreign language?

Question

I have spent last 4 years teaching english to foreign friends and realise that im very good at it and have the patience too. I am educated to O level and have NVQ3 and 4 in internal audit, accountancy grade, electrical engineering and I love different cultures and can speak 5 diff languages.
I dont have teaching qual, can I become an english teacher for this without qualifications and how do I go about starting?

Taganan.... My spelling on here is just so.... because I am winding down, ie like txtin... maybe for those that can't read... Trust there to be someone to pick up on it! I would like to teach in England or as my hubby is Syrian.... middle east. Thanks for all your comments.

Answer 1

You should still train.
About 800 quid, 4 weeks, and loads more ideas for teaching techniques...you'll be very employable and could make a career out of it.

Answer 2

Set up as a private tutor. You can teach as a business, although having the formal education in teaching English would help anywhere you go. Many people won't accept a person as a teacher of a subject unless they have formal qualifications.

Considering the errors in your question, you would benefit from formal training.
Correction:" I have spent the last four years teaching English to foreign friends and realise that I'm very good at it and also have the needed patience. I am .......can speak five different languages.
I don't have teaching qualifications. Can I .......starting?"

My degree is in Art Education, with a minor in German. I could teach English, but do not have the papers saying so. You really need the papers to be accepted.

Answer 3

To become a teacher you need a teaching qualification, such as PGCE which you could get by attending part time 1 day a week over a year, or really you need the full 2 year course. It's no good just knowing your subject, you now have to demonstrate you can teach, role playing etc. lots of written and theory work, lots and lots of reading up, learning behavioural skills, how to adapt different teaching methods to suit different learning abilities of your learners, not so much the teacher these days. You learn to teach from the learner's point of view.

Answer 4

I teach English as a foreign language because I live abroad, and it's a well, known fact that foreigners would like native English speakers to teach them. I don't have any formal qualifications, but I'm regularly assesed, and I have to keep my standards up.

The main publishers of English coursebooks for adults have some fantastic material and teaching aids.

Go to www.oup.com for Oxford University Press

Go to www.cambridge.org for Cambridge University Press

There are also Nathan Publishing, Macmillan Publishing, and an American Publisher based in Cannes in France called C. Douglas Billet.

If you're based in England then you would need to send in your C.V. etc to the Independant language training centres If you live abroad then see your local Chamber of Commerce.

Answer 5

Hi,
I'm a nursery nurse in Scotland and I am pretty sure that you do need a qualification, however with the additional grades you have you may be able to skip a year. Your best bet would be to get in contact with your local authority and ask them for advice, alternatively most private nurseries are always looking for EAL teachers (English as additional language) so if local authority nurseries won't help then maybe the private ones would.
Hope this helps

Answer 6

Consider teaching ESL to adults. There, you'd have a class of student from all different cultural and language backgrounds. Their common thread is that they all want to learn English.

Some ESL adult programs will let you teach if you can verify your intention to get a teaching credential. There's a definite shortage and need for people with your skills and interest!

Answer 7

Where do you live,willing to move.....to Japan.Im working as an english teacher in japan,its easy to find a teaching job without proper qualifications although for some countries its difficult and the Japanese like caucasians......if you would be able to find a school who could sponsor you,go for it....

Answer 8

English is not a foreign language.
It is our creator's new universal language and one speech that was translated with time from the original universal language.
Genesis 11.1
Ever wonder how living human kind speak the one new universal language in one speech does not sound British at all?
Ever wonder what language is that?
Ever wonder what is the difference in the new universal language and one speech between ghostly kitchen's dialect from the grave yards of ancestor's custom?
Genesis 11-3-9