Comments on: Selling English tuition

By: Sierra

Sierra — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 10:56:40 +0000

I have known lots of things regarding english language learning in Iran…thanks for this post

By: Shiva

Shiva — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 02:09:13 +0000

Dear Vahid,
Thank you for the interesting post! It gave me a vision of the current situation in Iran! 🙂 Thanks for that!

By: vahid

vahid — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:39:19 +0000

In reply to ICAL TEFL. Dear ICAL TEFL, Thanks for your comment. In my corpus of about 100 advertising materials, the scores the tutors had received (e.g IELTS 8.5) were often presented as qualifications. They did not reveal any other qualifications.

By: ICAL TEFL

ICAL TEFL — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 10:07:49 +0000

It’s interesting that the tutor’s qualifications are not given prominence. When I taught privately I always laid out my qualifications for potential students to see!

By: Elham

Elham — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 08:47:29 +0000

I’m totally for the ad above about having lived in a foreign country. However, teaching English is way different from knowing English by heart. I learned English in the UK and when I started teaching in Iran it took me a while to figure out why I use certain sentence structures in certain places.

By: Bestenglish

Bestenglish — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 07:19:26 +0000

The spread of eng is a result of global economic development both in english speaking and nonenglish speaking countries.

By: Behzad

Behzad — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 07:33:19 +0000

I guess receiving a certain score in ielts or toefl is the main reason for this big business.

By: Sinjoro ENG

Sinjoro ENG — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 04:22:50 +0000

Saluton

Just wonder how many people have read the report from The Telegraph in 2008 about the declining of English and even will turn English into Panglish. What would happen to those young children who are learning English now and relearn Panglish few decades later ?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1582954/English-will-turn-into-Panglish-in-100-years.html

By 2020, the native speakers of English will be 300 millions. If China does as Indonesia, stop teaching English in the primary school, the non-native speakers would down 1 billion and that you count for others which are not accurate at all. For example, the government list English as a second language in Malaysia, but only less than 10% people use English at home or at work. But the statistic would go by the nation population, 27 millions.

Researchers have to be aware of this.