A Story of South-East Asian TESOL Why Teach Abroad: Its Opportunities and Challenges

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https://doi.org/10.33394/jollt.v9i3.3978

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EFL Teachers, Native English Teachers, Non-Native English Teachers, Teaching EFL/ESL Abroad, Pre-Service English Teachers

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate a story from a South-East Asian TESOL teacher. The purpose of this study is to inspire and guide in-service and pre-service English teachers to teach EFL/ESL overseas either to native English-speaking or non-native English-speaking countries. The participant of the study is a BA TESOL Teacher from the Philippines teaching English in the Kingdom Saudi of Arabia. The data were collected through a semi-structured interview and analyzed through Braun & Clarke’s thematic analysis. The data then will be coded, read multiple times, and themes were assigned and generated. The findings describe that teaching abroad provides better prosperity and additive and transformative development for the teachers. However, teachers that aim to teach abroad should be globally accepted and possess proper identity and agency to overcome culture shock, language differences, homesickness as the common challenges of teaching abroad. Overall, teaching abroad should be considered greatly by teachers who are interested to receive a higher salary and involved various teachers’ development experience.

Author Biographies

Luthfi Nicola Sereni, Universitas Singaperbangsa Karawang

Luthfi Nicola Sereni is an undergraduate student who studies English Education in Universitas Singaperbangsa Karawang. He is currently in the final semester of his study. He also teaches English as foreign language in a language center. He is interested in teachers’ identity and agency, TESOL and TEFL, digitalized game-based language learning, and second language acquisition. He is currently building a community that facilitates its member to be a globally accepted English teachers and enhance their prosperity through teaching abroad.  

 

Elih Sutisna Yanto, Universitas Singaperbangsa Karawang

Elih Sutisna Yanto earned his MA in English Education at Universitas Profesor DR. Hamka, Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2012. He is a lecturer at Universitas Singaperbangsa Karawang, West Java, Indonesia. His professional interests include language teaching methodology, systemic functional linguistics (SFL) in language education, and the use of corpus in teaching grammar.
Scopus ID ->  57208161093 

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Sereni, L. N., & Yanto, E. S. (2021). A Story of South-East Asian TESOL Why Teach Abroad: Its Opportunities and Challenges. Journal of Languages and Language Teaching, 9(3), 264–278. https://doi.org/10.33394/jollt.v9i3.3978

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