A TEFL certification is the globally accepted qualification to teach English abroad to students (both children and adults) whose first language isn’t English.<\/p>\n
This certification is what most hiring schools and language training institutes are looking for on a teach abroad application. That\u2019s why you\u2019ll see it crop up time and time again as a requirement on most overseas teaching job posts.<\/p>\n
TEFL certification<\/a> is one of the fastest-growing educational fields in the world with an estimated 250,000 native English speakers working as ESL teachers abroad in more than 40,000 schools and language training institutes worldwide.<\/p>\n However, 80% of English teachers working abroad are from non-native English speaking countries, as there are simply not enough native English speaking teachers to meet the demand.<\/p>\n Dozens of countries around the world including China, Thailand, and Mexico have introduced English as a second language<\/a> within their school curriculum and in Japan, the English language has been introduced as a required subject within primary education.<\/p>\n Nearly 100,000 positions for English language teachers open up abroad every year as more and more teachers leave their position to return to their home country.<\/p>\n According to a recent study, nearly 50% of ESL teachers stay abroad for a second year. 15-20% got to a new school or a new country after one year and 30-35% return home after one year abroad teaching English. Only 10% stay for the third year at the same school.<\/p>\n![\"TEFL](\"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Copy-of-TEFL-Certificate-1-1024x536.png\")
<\/a>The British Council, one of the largest providers of English language classes in the world estimates that approximately 1.8 billion people are already learning English<\/a> worldwide and it will rise to 2 billion by 2020.<\/p>\n