Career in Teaching English

Posted by teacher on March 17, 2007

With the world opening up its frontiers and people talking of a “global village” you need a language to bind all men together. The onus is on English. So these days more and more people from non English-speaking countries are going in for English lessons. From this stems the popularity of the profession of teaching English as a second language.

When you are teaching English as a second language, your students will be people whose native language is not English. Thus your class may consist of children in non English-speaking countries who are required to learn English as part of their syllabi. There may be migrants to English-speaking countries who need to learn the language in order to get employment and citizenship in their adopted land and also businessmen who wish to learn the language in order to communicate with their counterparts in the English-speaking regions of the world.

Thus as someone teaching English as a second language, the location of your job may or may not be in an English-speaking country. In fact, with Asia emerging as economic powers, teaching English as a second language is a lucrative career option there, besides the added lure of getting to visit a new place.

Teaching English has a prospects of fat pay packets when you are working overseas and traveling. There is also the very satisfying feeling that you are, in your own small way, contributing to the creation of “One World, One Language”.

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