Website Review of Dave’s ESL Cafe: www.eslcafe.com
Dave Sperling presents the Dave’s ESL Café the one and only website which basically speaks about the internet’s meeting place for ESL+EFL teachers and students around the world.The job opportunity tab is useful for searching jobs and recruiting people for different kinds of teaching jobs. People who are interested in teaching English overseas but don’t know how to start the work or where to start their work can have a good option over this website.
This includes International Job Board, Korean Job board, China Job Board which provides a dedicated global job placement assistance who is interested in teaching English abroad. Daily posting of International, Korean and China job vacancies is available in this website.
It also provides information about a database where teachers can post their resume for potential employers from around the world and a forum where teachers can discuss about job related topics with other, Korea related job issues, issues related to teacher training. One of the most comprehensive selection of job links found anywhere on the Web.
The stuff for teachers tab includes idea cookbook with information on business English, discipline, food, games, grammar, group formation, ice breakers, internet, listening, music, reading, speaking, vocabulary, writing, etc., which gives an general overview on teaching with different stuffs.
Information about International and Korean forums with general discussion, FAQ’s, technology, current events is provided in the website. This also has an option to post the resume for teaching jobs, and also has teacher forums and teacher training forum.
This also provides information about the stuff for students which includes help center, hint of the day, idioms, phrasal verbs, pronunciation power, quizzes, slang and student forums which deals with computer, current news, food, games, culture, science, sports, English, etc., which is useful for students.
This also provides stuff for everyone which includes bookstore, chat central, photo gallery, pod cast, today in history and also the ESL links. This website has the option of recruiting teachers, posting resume for job, photo galleries, announcements, sponsored links and also contact information of Dave. Overall this Dave’s ESL Café provides the best of
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November 22nd, 2007 at 8:31 am
A lot of the old Dave’s crew have found sanctuary from the increasingly censored and heavily moderated ESL Cafe forums at…
http://www.eltworld.net/forums
Hope you’ll take the time to come and join us.
September 19th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
I want everyone that is a teacher or planning to be a teacher about TEFL INTL. TEFL INTL is not what is advertised. I was in one of the courses and let me tell you it is truly a scam. I have read up on them and they claim that all the instructors are college educated and have at least five years of teaching. Our instructors did not have this and openly admitted it. The teacher was often corrected in class by the students. The one instructor has no knowledge of grammar and said you don’t need to know grammar. TEFL INTL claims to be the same school all over the world but the material are not the same from center to center. The trainers we had had no formal training by TI. The course was just terrible. To top it off we were not allowed to take the course with the visa we had. The truth is you need a student visa. The problem is that in many countries you have to be a real school to issue a student visa. You cannot take this course on a tourist visa in most countries. My friend has a worse sitiuation he is in one of the China speicial projects. This is completely illegal. They make my friend work on a tourist via which is 100% illegal and if they don’t work they call the cops and throw them out of the housing. We went to the China PSB and they told us to leave or be thrown out for working illegally in china and it is not the chinese citizens job to babysit us it is our job to watch our own backs. They did say it was completely illegal for a company to take a teachers salary and that TEFL INTL who is in shanghai, Zhuhai and Beijing to issue a cert in china. So they are breaking the law and we get in trouble if something happens. Please don’t take my word for it you can email them and ask them email the china PSB. Look at the visa entry and exit rules. You can see these projects are clearly illegal
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May 29th, 2009 at 1:30 am
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September 10th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog.
Cheers! Sandra. R.
September 18th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Sperling is materialist control freak. His “ESL” site is mainly to make money for himself, his Thai “wife” and Korean “HOG WON” wonjungs.
December 25th, 2009 at 2:49 am
great post — very inspiring
March 2nd, 2010 at 6:07 pm
I just recently had a bad experience with Dave’s ESL Cafe. Someone on the teacher’s discussion board was making a political rant against President Obama (i.e., calling him “The Anointed One”, etc.). I merely stated in a response that I felt a discussion board was an inappropriate place for politics. I did not verbally attack the poster. “Dave’s ESL Cafe” immediately banned me from the site, without any explanation. I wrote Dave Sperling several times in an e-mail, asking him to explain why I was banned, but he never replied.
Here is a portion of the post that got me banned. I can’t retrieve the rest, for obvious reasons.
“I’m disappointed that, once again, this forum has ceased to be a point for discussion about matters related to China. Instead, the OP has begun a political rant related to American politics, which is clearly not the goal of Dave’s ESL. If foreigners in China need a reminder to be careful with travel documents, that is a point well taken…”
Is Dave’s ESL Cafe objective, unbiased, and concerned only with ESL matters? I certainly don’t think so.