SDSU Program Helps You Learn to Teach English Abroad

If you would like to learn how to earn money teaching English abroad, then San Diego State University has a program that may be perfect for you.

SDSU will be offering its popular 130-hour Teaching English as a Second Language/Teaching English as a Foreign Language certificate program that prepares novice instructors to live and teach English overseas during a day session from Jan. 20 to Feb. 13 and a night session from Feb. 3 to April 23.

“Before I took the TESL/TEFL Certificate program, I was totally afraid to speak in front of a group of people. It became my vehicle to change my life,” said former student Alicia Wszelaki, who completed the program and then traveled the globe teaching English.

These sessions are offered through the American Language Institute, a division of SDSU’s College of Extended Studies. Cost of the program is $2,725.

More than 200 graduates of the program have been employed in 38 countries with the help of the ALI’s job placement assistance program, which combines a solid teaching foundation with hands-on practical classroom experience. Former students include:
 Pablo Serrano, who has worked for the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education in a Korean public middle school. “This program provides the training and guidance to succeed working abroad. I highly recommend it to anyone who is considering teaching overseas.”
 Jon Hershman, who set sail for three months and traveled the seven seas on the Coral Prince cruise liner teaching English as a foreign language. “Thanks to the knowledge and experience I gained through the program, I was able to set foot in over 10 countries and meet beautiful, extraordinarily enthusiastic friends from around the world.”
For more information, visit ali.sdsu.edu/teslteflcertificate or email jgreeno@mail.sdsu.edu.

This is a SDSU Research Foundation program.