by sheila_admin | Mar 24, 2015 | Teaching Around The World, The ICAL TEFL Blog
Welcome to Ally – a former ICAL student – writing this guest post. Ally began her TEFL life after a career in banking; here she talks about her first experience teaching English which happened in a small town in northern Italy. Living in Italy had been my...
by sheila_admin | Oct 29, 2013 | The ICAL TEFL Blog
The prestigious Milan Polytechnic has been delivered a blow in its attempt to teach all postgraduate courses in English. A local court has ruled that making English obligatory is not constitutional and courses must be delivered in Italian. Both students and the...
by sheila_admin | Aug 7, 2012 | Teaching Around The World
To teach in Italy you need: to have a degree (a BA/BSc in almost any subject is fine) to have a TEFL certificate to be a native English speaker The ICAL online TEFL Certificate Course will give you a thorough grounding in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)....
by sheila_admin | Jul 13, 2012 | The ICAL TEFL Blog
I was reading today that the Politecnico di Milano in Italy is changing to an English-speaking university only. Quite a remarkable move considering the level of English penetration within Italy. This is a country, after all, which is in the bottom third of English...
by sheila_admin | Jun 17, 2012 | Foreign Languages vs English, Linguistics
Italian (= italiano or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken by about 60 million people in Italy, and by another 10 million Italian descendants in the world, particularly in Argentina, Uruguay, southern Brazil and Venezuela where they form a very strong...