TEFL

The TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) industry has been rapidly expanding across the world due to the ever increasing importance of English language skills in a global economy. David Crystal OBE, one of the world's foremost authorities on language, claims two and a quarter billion people worldwide speak English with roughly 1 billion actively studying it in language schools from Azerbaijan to Vietnam.

More TEFL jobs available in the market

In the last decade, the TEFL industry has grown dramatically leading to the development of TEFL programs for a wide variety of learners' needs - business, academic or for specific age groups like younger learners. Research from the British Council indicates the TEFL is currently the eighth largest source of earnings for the UK and is rapidly expanding with thousands of people, like you, training for a year or a career in TEFL. This means a multitude of employment opportunities in TEFL teaching, TEFL management and support services such as marketing, and English language publishing (sales, materials development, etc).

A leader in TEFL industry

Within the field of TEFL, EF English First is the company with the largest reach in terms of quantity of ESL students and scope of EF locations. EF recruits over 1,000 TEFL teachers annually to teach English in foreign countries like China, Indonesia and Russia.