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Not worth it to be honest. Most places will employ someone with a CELTA or Trinity over someone with another qualification. Shame, cos some of the others are just as good in terms of training, they just don't have the reputation.
Are you in the UK? Try a Further Ed college, they can often be cheaper.
tefl is good. I did it as a career for 10 years, with a Dip and Masters on the way, and ended up in teacher training (still do some TT part time). It's one of those things you can do for a few months for a bit of sunshine, money and experience, or stay at it longer and get some quite good jobs.
It's good experience though, especially as more and more UK Uni students are from overseas. Showing you have experience of teaching non-native speakers is a good thing.
I use this http://www.nuance.co.uk/naturallyspeaking/preferred/
and it's great.
Yes, it takes a bit of getting used to, and you do have to proof-read carefully to avoid silly mis-hearings, but it works extermely well IMO, and it learns! I've had it for a while, but have just given it a proper test now that I'm 12,00 words into my literature review, but I'm very impressed.
As for having to speak clear, BBC English, it claims you don't, but that happens to be my natural accent anyway!
Update: I went ahead and submitted the same abstract to both, and have been accepted at both. Unfortunately, I didn't change the title after all (schoolboy error) so they are identical.
My thoughts now are to ask to change the title of one, and try to alter the focus of the content a bit, one to methods, one to results.
Like someone said PG confs are usually attended by that uni's students and some presenters from others, so the chances of the same people being there are quite small.
Good idea? Or should I just do one and try the other again next year?
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