Comments on: Website Review of Dave’s ESL Cafe: www.eslcafe.com

By: Talaat

Talaat — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:52:10 +0000

Dear Professor,
I am a teacher of English language for 38 years nonstop..I got my B.A. in English language teaching in 1972 ,a postgraduate diploma in 1998 and another postgraduate diploma in Applied Linguistics from UK in 2006 but the first BA and the first higher diploma were obtained from Egypt..I have been working as a Teacher,a supervisior eversince..I was born in 1949 (61 years old)..I am now teaching in Bahrain..I taught the language in 5 different countries..Please may I find a job in your university.

Best regards
Talaat Montash

By: Jacques Pierre James

Jacques Pierre James — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:07:28 +0000

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.

By: Kpop News

Kpop News — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 06:49:35 +0000

great post — very inspiring

By: Kiss It (X)

Kiss It (__X__) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:49:43 +0000

Sperling is materialist control freak. His “ESL” site is mainly to make money for himself, his Thai “wife” and Korean “HOG WON” wonjungs.

By: sandrar

sandrar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:19:17 +0000

Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. Cheers! Sandra. R.

By: Sarah Fauset

Sarah Fauset — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:30:14 +0000

Teach English in Korea

By: peace888

peace888 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:46:18 +0000

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
TEFL Jobs – Special Muslim Project TEFL Jobs- Special Chinese Project III
TEFL Jobs – Special Thai Project TEFL Jobs- Beijing special project

By: David Vincent

David Vincent — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:31:26 +0000

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.

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