Why Did You Choose to Become an English As a Foreign Language Teacher?
Why, How and When Why, how and when did you choose to be an English language teacher? When this question came up recently during an online interview, I had to seriously reflect, not on what to answer, but on how much to exclude. My path into English teaching wasn’t exactly as direct as many of my other colleagues. For each of us, the story and path into the field of teaching English as a foreign or second language is a bit different. Sometimes it’s really a lot different. So briefly, here’s what happened to me. Studying Mechanical Engineering When I was at the university studying Mechanical Engineering and technical design, there were at lot of my classmates who were from foreign countries like Ghana, Cameroon and Liberia in Africa, in particular. They were constantly asking me questions on English language vocabulary, idioms, expressions and usage. It wasn’t too long before I developed a keen interest in advancing my own skills and abilities as a native speaker of English, so it actua
Why, How and When Why, how and when did you choose to be an English language teacher? When this question came up recently during an online interview, I had to seriously reflect, not on what to answer, but on how much to exclude. My path into English teaching wasn’t exactly as direct as many of my other colleagues. For each of us, the story and path into the field of teaching English as a foreign or second language is a bit different. Sometimes it’s really a lot different. So briefly, here’s what happened to me. Studying Mechanical Engineering When I was at the university studying Mechanical Engineering and technical design, there were at lot of my classmates who were from foreign countries like Ghana, Cameroon and Liberia in Africa, in particular. They were constantly asking me questions on English language vocabulary, idioms, expressions and usage. It wasn’t too long before I developed a keen interest in advancing my own skills and abilities as a native speaker of English, so it actua
