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Articles from Cactus:

TEFL open evening in London - April 09
The TEFL open evening held on 17th April 09 marked a new era in these events for us. For the first time in many years, it did not take place at its usual venue - the Guardian’s newsrooms in Farringdon.

The Telegraph
A World Of Teaching Opportunities

Five brutally honest and unashamedly selfish reasons to teach English as a foreign language
There are many reasons for teaching English, from the highest motivations of helping our fellow man, to the lowest common denominator of cheap beer abroad.

How is teaching English as a foreign language different in the UK to abroad?
Although many people associate TEFL with going abroad, there also plenty of opportunities in the UK. The majority of work in both cases takes place in private language schools, and although training courses cater for people who want to do both, there are definite differences between teaching in Britain and abroad.

Online Diary: TEFL in Playa del Carmen from our 2008 Scholarship winner (5)
Georgina Newcombe, winner of the Suzanne Furstner Scholarship 08, reports back on week 4 of her CELTA course in Playa del Carmen.

Other articles:

Lexis - the new grammar?
How new materials are finally challenging established course book conventions by Paul Meehan

Motivation and Motivating in EFL
by Dimitrios Thanasoulas

Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Language Teaching
by Diana Beaver

15 reasons why PPP is so unfashionable
by Alex Case

Teaching with Bingo
Using bingo to teach a variety of lesson points by Glenn Huntley

What have they understood?
Ways of checking learning and discusses the reason why we should try to avoid questions of the 'Have you understood?' type by Marisa Constantinides

The Mother Tongue in the Classroom: Cross-linguistic comparisons, noticing and explicit knowkedge
by Vince Ferrer

Using the Mother Tongue to Promote Noticing: Translation as a way of scaffolding learner language
by Vince Ferrer