Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

So, okay, you've got English teaching, okay? It's like a nice sort of umbrella, right? But the problem with teacher training when it comes to English as a foreign language or English as a second language teacher training is that pronunciation and phonetics just isn't really covered in the level of detail as grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, and listening, right? So you've got the skills and then, you know, pronunciation for some reason is always kind of just abandoned.

I remember during my CELTA training, CELTA is the Cambridge teaching...

Not CELTA.

No, no, no, not salsa training.

I didn't do salsa training.

It's basically a qualification from Cambridge, accredited by Cambridge University, and it qualifies you to be a... an English as a foreign language teacher.

So it's like a TESOL or a TEFL or something which people may be more familiar with.

But even during my CELTA training, we did literally like an afternoon, not even that, maybe like an hour on how to teach pronunciation.

What do you think, Ola? You had a lot of experience teaching all over the world, so I'm sure you have lots of tips.

For me, teaching vocabulary was always through those ways that I learned on my CELTA, which I did at IH London as well.

And it was using pictures, using the coursebook.

The coursebooks are designed to introduce vocabulary with pictures, with situations, with all these lovely things that make it very direct.

It just looks so old fashioned.

But I did that for a while and then I did a CELTA course and I took off and started traveling and going abroad.

And that was your intention, was to do the CELTA in order to then...

I knew I didn't want to be stuck in an office for sure.

So I did the CELTA.

And my boyfriend and I at the time, we got in the car, we drove over to southern Spain.

And that was my first travel experience.

Yeah.