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10 Terrific Tips for Teaching English Abroad | Two Tents Down
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10 Terrific Tips for Teaching English Abroad. The opportunities are endless for people who want to live abroad and teach English. There are a number of continents, each with at least a handful of countries that will gladly accept you as an English teacher, if you are only willing to get out there and do it. If you decide to travel to a different country to teach English, there are some things you should do to prepare yourself for this awesome adventure. 1 Get your passport/passport pictures. Proof of cit...
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November 2015 | Two Tents Down
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10 Terrific Tips for Teaching English Abroad. The opportunities are endless for people who want to live abroad and teach English. There are a number of continents, each with at least a handful of countries that will gladly accept you as an English teacher, if you are only willing to get out there and do it. If you decide to travel to a different country to teach English, there are some things you should do to prepare yourself for this awesome adventure. 1 Get your passport/passport pictures. Proof of cit...
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Books – Sojourning English Language Teachers
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Sojourning English Language Teachers. Global citizens, migrant workers, transnationals. Below is a partial listing of books written by current and former sojourning ELTs. As of 2014, most of these books are about East Asian contexts. Eva P Bruno and Terry Caesar,. I Wouldn’t Want Anybody to Know. JPGS Press, 2003. Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze. Harper Perennial, 2006. Melissa Christine Karpinski,. Rosedog Press, 2010. My Name is Loco and I Am a Racist.
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April 2015 – Sojourning English Language Teachers
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Sojourning English Language Teachers. Global citizens, migrant workers, transnationals. Sojourning ELTs in Qatar. April 11, 2015. April 11, 2015. Yesterday, I enthusiastically read a recently published article written by James Scotland. About sojourning ELTs in Qatar. I was not disappointed in the reading. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimension of Globalization. The first group had already stopped using controversial issues prior to arriving in Qatar. The third group also changed to more culturally appro...
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Revised W-shaped Adjustment Model (Ting-Toomey, 1999) – Sojourning English Language Teachers
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Sojourning English Language Teachers. Global citizens, migrant workers, transnationals. Revised W-shaped Adjustment Model (Ting-Toomey, 1999). Ting-Toomey’s revised w-shaped adjustment model (1999) comes from the U-curve hypothesis (Lysgaard, 1955; Oberg, 1960) from culture shock theory, which states that there are distinct phases of adjusting or adapting to the host culture. Berry, J.W. (2006). Stress perspectives on acculturation. In Sam, D.L. and Berry, J.W. West Nyack, NY: Cambridge University Press.
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July 2015 – Sojourning English Language Teachers
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Sojourning English Language Teachers. Global citizens, migrant workers, transnationals. English Language Teachers and Learners as Anthropologists. July 18, 2015. Image from http:/ www.amazon.com/Routes-Travel-Translation-Twentieth-Century/dp/0674779614. I can hear many anthropologists guffaw when I suggest that some English language teachers and some of their students may be thinking like and acting like anthropologists in their work and studies. As I am reading through James Clifford’s book. August 20, ...
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Online Communities – Sojourning English Language Teachers
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Sojourning English Language Teachers. Global citizens, migrant workers, transnationals. Online Communities for Professional Learning. The International Teacher Development Institute describes itself as “a global online teacher development institute that is owned and staffed by dedicated teachers.” More details are at http:/ itdi.pro/itdihome/about.php. More on the way…. Online Communities for Cultural Learning. Japan Vloggers have a wiki page at http:/ jvlog.wikia.com/wiki/Japan Vloggers Wiki. August 20,...
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Host Culture Complex (Holliday, 1994) – Sojourning English Language Teachers
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Sojourning English Language Teachers. Global citizens, migrant workers, transnationals. Host Culture Complex (Holliday, 1994). This host culture complex model appeared in Adrian Holliday’s textbook. Appropriate Methodology and Social Context. For English language teachers, published in 1994. He created a model (on page 29) that I found to be particularly helpful to understand the social contexts in which English teachers find themselves. The classroom culture – This is the culture of the classroom ...
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Categorizing Sojourners (and English Language Learners) – Sojourning English Language Teachers
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Sojourning English Language Teachers. Global citizens, migrant workers, transnationals. Categorizing Sojourners (and English Language Learners). May 12, 2015. May 12, 2015. In reply to another blogger’s post. Image taken from Figure 1 on page 380 of Littrell, et al (2006). If you care about the message more than the messenger (me), please move on to the next section. Otherwise, come with me as I embark in my own reflective practice exercise. How to Use this Figure. Administrators and supervisors may also...
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Sojourning ELTs in Qatar – Sojourning English Language Teachers
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Sojourning English Language Teachers. Global citizens, migrant workers, transnationals. Sojourning ELTs in Qatar. April 11, 2015. April 11, 2015. Yesterday, I enthusiastically read a recently published article written by James Scotland. About sojourning ELTs in Qatar. I was not disappointed in the reading. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimension of Globalization. The first group had already stopped using controversial issues prior to arriving in Qatar. The third group also changed to more culturally appro...
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