How successful are adult community college ESL(English as second languege) program?
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What you would be wise to do is to ask permission to either sit in on an ESL class or interview students or former students about their experiences.  If they are speaking English and able to work, make purchases, deal with paperwork, then the success is evident.\n\nI believe that in order to teach ESL an instructor must participate in training and be certified to teach.\n\nBut the answers to your questions like with the students who took the course - can they speak English to their own satisfaction?  If they are not able to do so, what prevented them from reaching their goal of learning to speak English?
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There is a distance learning course at the University of Florida that teaches how to teach small groups ESL.\n\nI have included the link below.
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take a course in english language
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I suggest you take a remedial English course at your local community college. If you need additional help, hire a tutor. \n\nI think it's commendable that you're taking the initiative for your own learning by trying to become successful in English. Strong skills in grammar and writing are essential if you want to be successful in your career and life in general. It takes a lot of hard work and motivation to succeed in almost anything--including English. Work hard, put forth 100% effort, and you'll succeed. \n\nGood luck to you!
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Most public libraries offer free English as a Second Language classes.  It looks like you already have a fairly good working knowledge of the written language, so you are off to a good start.  Good Luck!
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It depends how good you're at foreign languages. Although, as for the average person--I'd say it's pretty hard.
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I take it that you don't have any qualifications in language teaching or special college coursework that has prepared you to be an English tutor -- otherwise you wouldn't be asking this question, right?  The good news is that TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) has published a book just for people like you.  It's called PACE Yourself: A Handbook for ESL Tutors.  I'm including a link to the amazon.com page for this book:\nhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1931185069/sr=8-1/qid=1145320242/ref=sr_1_1/103-2984409-5686243?%5Fencoding=UTF8\nThis book has solid suggestions that people with little or no formal training in language teaching can use.\n(I'm not suggesting that you should buy it from Amazon necessarily, but I know that this a website that many people are familiar with, and you can get information you can use to buy it from that page.)\n\nIf you decide to become an ESL teacher on a regular basis, and perhaps want to do it as a career, you should look into doing some college coursework on the topic.  If you plan to work in public school, you can take courses towards an ESL endorsement that would go along with your teaching certificate.  If you'd like to work with adults either in the States or abroad, you can work for what's called a TESOL certificate.  Talk to the Department of Education or Department of Linguistics of your university to find out more about these programs.\n\nWelcome to language teaching!  I hope you find it rewarding and enjoyable.
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I suggest asking on the website below.  It's full of ESL experts.  Also, a Yahoo search for "ESL Agencies" comes up with roughly 50/50 teacher and student placement agencies.
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To be honest it does not matter that much what your degree is in, Many ESL/EFL teachers study something related to the social sciences (politics, history, sociology, psychology, etc).  \nI think having an English major would help. It would be especially helpful to have courses in Linguistics and Grammar.  Some courses on effective communication skills, interpersonal communication, and intercultural communication would also be very helpful. Also courses related to teaching methodology. \nIt is also possible to get a 3 month TEFL cert that some people find helpful.\nOne last suggestion is that you study a foreign language for at least 2 years. It will help you understand some of the challenges your students face (and the langauge you study does not have to be the same language that the students you will teach speak--it just helps you to understand what it is like to be a language student).\nCheck out www.eslcafe.com for more information.
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I think you would benefit from two years at a community college -- it would give you time to improve your communication skills. Your English just isn't good enough yet for a 4-year school.
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I understand that Macalaster in Minnesota has a great international program (Kofi Annan, head of UN, being one of their graduates).  Another good one for languages and foreign policy is Middlebury--small, in Vermont, but a very good school overall.  I'm do the college-search thing right now; I hope this helps you!
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Try googling it with:  VALENCIA, ESL, "ENGLISH TEACHER", etc.\n\nYou can also contact International House in Barcelona or Hyland Language Centre in Madrid.  These are ESL training facilities where students receive certification at the highest level: the CELTA degree.\n\nAdemas, puedes poner un anuncio en un tablon de anuncios.\nSuerte!
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Most community colleges have programs for non traditional students
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I have a B.A. in English.  I completed the four-year degree in three years by taking twenty courses in my final year of studies.  Upon graduation I found that it was, for the most part, useless.  The market is saturated with people with Arts degrees.\n\nSo I moved to Europe and worked for a while as an EFL teacher.  I really liked teaching, so I decided to use my B.A. and enroll in a B.Ed program.  I will start it in September.  It was hard to find a B.Ed program that would accept me with just a regular B.A.- a lot of programs expect you to specialize in children's literature before starting the Education program.\n\nI don't feel that I learned very much at university, but I feel like it's a necessary step to enter the workforce.  I learned more about teaching in my first day of work as an EFL teacher than I did in the enter six-week TEFL course, and I imagine that when I start teaching in high schools I will find the same thing.  One thing that I did learn during university was how to get the work done using "alternate" resources- I rarely attended lectures and preferred to study independently.  I am now excellent at finding primary and secondary resources when doing research, but the only reason I developed such good research skills was because I didn't go to the lectures and had to learn things for myself.  One of my big problems with university was that the professors would let unknowledgeable students ramble and babble for long periods of time, without bringing them back onto topic or correcting erroneous statements.  If I had a ninety-minute class and forty-five minutes was spent listening to the same two students repeat themselves six hundred times, I wanted to kill myself.  I paid for an education, not to hear the unfounded opinions of self-absorbed students.
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It's kind of ridiculous to say go to school or take classes when we don't know what country your from or is it available there because I think if you were in the United States you would have the common sense to take an English class at any community college.\nThe other suggestion on reading English books are great and the site that Annoyed gave is pretty good but make sure your reading it out loud it works for me. I'm trying to relearn my mother's native language.\n\nBelow is another site that you can browse through.\nGOOD LUCK!!!
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Hi I work as an online instructor, and previously at Berlitz. They use the "natural method of teaching" where you teach and speak only the targeted language. I left about a year ago so I don't really their approach to online teaching.\n\nHowever, when I left I went into online training and ever since I've developed my own methodology and the only online esl tutoring info website. I went into online training and I've since developed several teaching materials based on the natural method (not the Berlitz method) for teaching ESL. This approach seems to work well, and I've been using it online (and inside the classroom) for about a year using Skype's chat and voice conferencing feature - sometimes 1:1 or 5:1. I use interactive video, questioning techniques .... which are all accessed by students on the web as they speak to me. You can also teach grammar, writing, and just about any other subject but this would be a slightly different approach.
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English classes are offered in most colleges