Teaching English Abroad - Hardcover

This is a guide to short- and long-term opportunities for both trained and untrained teachers in the booming field of teaching English as a foreign language. The book contains substantial chapters on over 20 countries where EFL is a major industry including Spain, Greece, Eastern Europe, Turkey, Japan and Taiwan, plus surveys of the range of possibilities in Africa and Latin America. Each country chapter discusses the ways in which native speakers of English can find work, the red tape involved, contracts and salaries, plus a list of language schools which hire English teachers. Plus how to become qualified in EFL, the role of recruitment agencies, and the possible risks and how to avoid them.