Singapore Sling...
A Cocktail of Cultures

A Journey to South America
ELT in Ecuador today

The Italian Job
Naples. High on TEFLERS' lists of desirable teaching destinations!

The Taiwan Teaching Experience
There are many jobs available on this beautiful island. Is it for you?

Sun, Sea & Summer School
Thinking of a short-term summer post this summer?

ELT in Vietnam Today

A New Teacher in Greece
Kat Brenke has opted for a career in TEFL... follow her new life in Greece!

YOUR CAREER PLAN - framework for success

Destination Brazil!
Following the career of a new teacher overseas.

Travel Bookshop

Newcomer's Handbook For Moving To And Living In The Usa (Newcomer's Handbooks) by Mike Livingston Fascinating book for newcomers and residents alike. Both…will learn plenty of facts and perhaps shed more than a few stereotypes. Order from UK | US | Canada Land of a Thousand Hills : My Life in Rwanda by Rosamond Halsey Carr, Ann Howard Halsey If you enjoyed Out of Africa and West with the Night, here's another amazing woman's story of her adventurous African life. Rosamond Halsey Carr left her job as a young New York City fashion illustrator in the 1940s to join her hunter-explorer husband in the Belgian Congo; after their divorce, she decided to stay on in neighboring Rwanda as the manager of a flower plantation. For the next 50 years she lived an extraordinary life, witnessing the fall of colonialism, the loss of her friend Dian... Order from UK | US | Canada Lonely Planet Argentina (Lonely Planet Argentina, Uruguay and Paruguay) by Danny Palmerlee, Sandy Bao, Andrew Dean Nystrom, Thomas Kohnstamm Tackle the tango in a Buenos Aires milonga. Bite into the world's most heavenly beef. Gallop with gauchos across the Pampas. Better and cheaper than ever, Argentina beckons! Grab the top-selling, tried-and-true guide and prepare for a thrill ride across enchanting cities, lush jungles and windswept plains, over Patagonian glaciers...to the tip of the world. • FIND YOURSELF - navigate the country with 90+ detailed maps, more than any other guidebook to Argentina ... Order from UK | US | France | Canada Find more Travel books

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Discussions A-Z Intermediate Teacher's Book: A Resource Book of Speaking Activities (Cambridge Copy Collection) by Adrian Wallwork I am not sure what I would have done without it EFL resource books are not cheap on a Chinese salary, but this one has proved itself an invaluable investment that I have dipped into again and again for my oral English classes. Order from UK | US | Canada Discourse (Language Teaching: A Scheme for Teacher Education) by Guy Cook Discourse analysis - the study of spoken and written language in its social and psychological context - can provide important insights for the language teacher. Discourse explains the relevant theory and applies it to classroom activities designed to improve students' discourse skills. The teacher is then shown how these activities may be further developed in specific teaching situations. Order from UK | US | Canada Controversies in Applied Linguistics There are several issues in English teaching on which applied linguists take very different positions: linguistic imperialism; the validity of critical discourse analysis; the pedagogic relevance of corpus descriptions of language; the theoretical bases of second language acquisition research; the nature of applied linguistics itself. This book presents exchanges between scholars arguing different positions, and directs attention to the key points at issue. Order from UK | US | Canada Find more ELT books