The EFL Magazine Podcast

Send us Fan Mail If you want to get qualified to teach English anywhere in the world, Oxford TEFL is the place to do it! We've been training teachers since 1998 and there are now over 5000 Oxford TEFL graduates working worldwide.  You can complete our courses online or in our language centre in Barcelona. As one of our graduates you will be able to take advantage of our lifetime careers suppo...

Send us Fan Mail Teach in Poland with English Wizards: Your Ultimate Path to Success Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to teach in Poland , work remotely, or establish yourself as a freelancer in Europe? English Wizards is the leading platform for helping educators, digital nomads, and skilled professionals navigate the Polish job market, get settled, and thrive. Why Teach in Poland? Pol...

Send us Fan Mail TravelBud has placed over 3,000 teachers in destinations across the world over the past 13 years since its founding in 2012. While the company has grown over the last decade—introducing new team members, teaching destinations, and program inclusions—one core value has remained unchanged: a commitment to meaningful travel. TravelBud is led by a passionate team, all of whom have fir...

Send us Fan Mail Andrew Woodbury is an EAP instructor and entrepreneur from Toronto, Canada. He’s the co-founder of Learn YOUR English (LYE), helping teachers escape precarity by growing their own business. He also produces LYE’s podcast, Teacher Talking Time, which offers long-form interviews with scholars and researchers on second language acquisition and teaching approaches. Throughout his care...

Send us Fan Mail Today's EFL Magazine podcast is an introduction to The English Educators' Extravaganza events happening in Tokyo on the 19th of January and Osaka 16th of February. The guests are Katie Kato, Eric Kane, and Brian Shepherd. Katie is an English teacher, English school owner and independent publisher who has been in Japan for 15 years. She enjoys finding new ways to inspire...

Send us Fan Mail Jerry Kolber is the Emmy-nominated creator of National Geographic's #1 series, the Emmy-nominated Brain Games and is the creator of the family podcasts  "Mysteries About True Histories" and "Who Smarted?", the world's most popular thrice-weekly kids' educational podcast reaching over 15 million downloads. As a pioneer in educational entertainment...

Send us Fan Mail Today's podcast guests are Santiago Ruiz de Velasco, Managing Director of OUP’s English Language Teaching division Benjamin Joseph, CEO and Co-founder of Learnlight. Higher education institutions (HEIs) face the challenge of supporting non-native English speakers, including students and researchers, by providing courses that effectively and flexibly enhance their skills in a...

Send us Fan Mail In 2015, Harrison moved from the U.S. to Spain for a life-changing gap year teaching abroad. During that first year, he met his wife, and not long after, he founded RVF International in Madrid. Since then, RVF has helped nearly 2,000 people make the move to Spain, and its mission is to continue supporting and empowering even more adventurers on their journey abroad. RVF Website Li...

Send us Fan Mail Laura Wilkes is a video and podcast producer who helps educators record content to grow their community. Before becoming a producer and setting up Communicating for Impact, Laura taught English, trained teachers, and led academic teams across the world for fifteen years. Laura is also the producer for the TESOL Pop podcast, which provides bite-sized episodes on teaching, trends, a...

Send us Fan Mail Ryan Hagglund is the owner of MY English School , which operates nine locations in Yamagata and Hyogo prefectures, serving over 1,200 students, as well as Yamagata’s only English immersion kindergarten. MY also organizes conferences and teacher training events through Independent Owners and Teachers and manages orders for the English Teachers’ Book Service , which gives a 20% disc...

Send us Fan Mail Frank Foley has lived and worked in Japan for 33 years, with 22 as Japan Country Manager. His career in Japan began at News Corporation, where he spent 17 years. Initially, he worked in publishing at HarperCollins Publishers, leading sales for trade and educational books across Asia for six years. He later shifted to News Corp's cable and satellite division, where he played a...

Send us Fan Mail Adam Kardos, owner of EA Kids and founder of AAS Press, is a teacher trainer and curriculum writer based in Hyogo. He has published textbooks and readers for young learners including Spring Country and Here Come the Unicorns, winners of the Language Learner Literature award. He has also produced the Gamerize Dictionary, a gamified learner dictionary app Links: Opening and Running...

Send us Fan Mail Barry O'Callaghan is an accomplished Irish business executive and financier. Currently serving as the Chairman and CEO of Rise Global, he has left an indelible mark on the corporate landscape. Prior to his role at Rise Global, Barry held the position of CEO at Riverdeep, where he orchestrated a remarkable transformation. Under Barry's leadership, Riverdeep, initially a m...

Send us Fan Mail Ben Shearon is a retired university English teacher based in Sendai. He was born in Germany and grew up in Spain but claims to be British. After living in Spain, the UK, and China, he moved to Japan in 2000 and has been here ever since. In 2013 Ben started the RetireJapan website to share information in English about personal finance, investing, and retirement for people living in...

Send us Fan Mail Marek Kiczkowiak has been in ELT since 2009. He has CELTA, DELTA and a PhD. He currently runs an educational company, Academic English Now , where he helps PhD students and researchers write research papers. He grew the company from 0 to 70k/month and now shares his insights with English teachers who want to start a widely profitable teaching English business. Alex Hormozi Blue Oc...

Send us Fan Mail Born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1966, Basil moved to Canada in 1969. After graduating from the University of Toronto, he pursued Asian Studies at the Graduate School of the University of British Columbia. Since coming to Japan in 1992, Basil has been extensively involved in education, serving as principal of an English language school, materials developer, teacher trainer, radio ho...

Send us Fan Mail Originally from the UK, Founder Zoe Smith created Mexico City based BE School when she saw a gap in the market for English Programs that were based specifically on growing Business Skills and Confidence for Mexican Professionals. BE School works with dozens of International corporations with customized courses tailored for individual and industry needs; the ethos is to enhance con...

Send us Fan Mail In 2007,  Sakurako Oshima set up her own company specialising in English education for adults. Her mission is to provide powerful support to as many people as possible through lessons, consulting, coaching, and books in order to achieve the respective goals of various people who need English, such as those who use English for work, those who want to be stationed abroad, those who...

Send us Fan Mail After nearly 30 years of intensive experience in every aspect of test preparation, Mike Bergin knows what works in tutoring and what doesn’t. A nationally recognized leader in education, Mike founded Chariot Learning in 2009 to deliver on the promise of what truly transformative individualized education can and should be. Besides overseeing Chariot Learning’s national programs, Mi...

Send us Fan Mail Jarrad Merlo is the principal consultant of Nouns n' Verbs.com where he helps schools, publishers and companies digitise their language learning and testing products, content, assessment, media, marketing, teaching and strategy.  He co-founded and spent the last ten years building an EdTech company called E2 that specialises in B2C and B2B high-stakes English exam prep that h...

Send us Fan Mail Nicola Prentis started off in ELT as a teacher, bouncing around the world wherever she most wanted to go at the time: Czech Republic, Turkey, Australia, Spain, Thailand. She started writing EFL materials as a way to transition into working from her sofa and settled in Spain around 2012. Once she realised she could sell ideas to magazines, she branched out into writing about travel...

Send us Fan Mail Jeff Johnson made the break into online teaching almost 2 years years ago and hasn't looked back since. By using his experience in education and aptitude for strategic planning, Jeff has carved out a thriving business within 2 years by being focused, measured, patient and on message with his offering. Jeff has hired a teacher recently, and is seeing his business continue to g...

Send us Fan Mail John Hayes is the creator of MyCoolClass Co-operative , a UK based learning platform cooperative owned collectively by its members. He is former private detective from California and has been living in Poland for the past 6 years teaching English online and at language schools. John has traveled to 32 countries and has a background in activism, community organizing, and project ma...

Send us Fan Mail Jane Dancaster is currently Managing Director of Wimbledon School of English (one of the UK’s top English language schools). She started her EFL career as a teacher 35 years ago and has worked in English language teaching and management both overseas and in the UK in a variety of organisations ranging from a co-operative school to a well-known group.  Jane was Chair of English UK...

Send us Fan Mail Today's guest is Dorothy Zemach. Dorothy and I chat about her career, self-publishing, and running a successful publishing company. She also, give tips, advice, and encouragement to those who might want to write and publish an ELT book Dorothy Zemach taught ESL and other foreign languages for over 20 years, in Asia, Africa, and the US. She holds an MA in TESL from SIT in Verm...