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Global Language Training was born out of an idea from a group of experienced teachers who wanted to offer a quality course based on more than 18 years of experience in teaching abroad. Sharing the academic and cultural knowledge, helping new teachers start a new voyage and guiding people through the process were the fundamental sparks that ignited our organisation.
Our academic team continuously updates and shares information with our course participants making our services the best available.
We are a UK based company that follows strict academic and administrative processes and we are sure that we will provide you with the best training experience.
You will be happy with the quality of our courses as well as the support provided from our organization.
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Overall I found this course had a lot of reading, some of which seemed so basic as to explain what listening, speaking , reading and writing are! I found this even more ironic as the course suggested, if you’re teaching that you use all your available resources. The videos that they did have were all over 8 years old, one was 16 yrs old.
I got a reduced price when I went on the website using the chat box, but what they didn’t tell me was that this also meant I had only 6 months to complete the course, instead of a year. If I had also known how much reading there was I may not have agreed to it.
The modules have suggested self study answers which in 4 of them didn’t always correlate to the questions or just weren’t there. (see Module 2,3, 6 and 8).
The website itself never remembered me when I logged in and I clicked the box alot and changed browsers to see if that fixed it, but no!
I thought the further reading resources were a great idea, until I went through the list at the end of each module and found that so many of the links didn’t work, they no longer existed or those links hadn’t been updated either, one I noticed was from 2009! These lists are obviously not kept up to date!
I also found the course sexist with the use of some of their language, like the constant use of “business man”! And one reference to dealing with difficult students with a reference to “beauty queen”, this is inappropriate in 2025.
Mod 8 seemed disorganised in itself, asking you to answer questions in the forum without providing the link and then asking the same questions at the bottom of the module with a link.
There is also a question in their self study and quiz about BULATS, it asks you to find something out about them. Well I searched for them only to find that BULATS had been discontinued since 2019!
Whilst they warn you that this is not a Grammar course, I thought their grammar course was very basic. I used youtube to substitute my learning and will continue to in the future.
The quiz questions (there is a quiz at the end of each module) they are standard questions but many are written in the negative which seems weird, like they want to make you slip up. Sometimes they have nothing to do with the topic or ask at one point a question that they hadn’t taught me anything about! Some are also dependent on who or what you are teaching so there isn’t a yes or no answer.
The worst I can remember was in the Grammar quiz I was asked “do students like coursebooks?”, surely that is not a grammar question and indeed doesn’t have a simple answer.
Writing the lesson plan went well for me but I couldn’t help but wonder why you don’t get to try this earlier on in the course because as soon as you send it in, it is assessed and you may get marked down if it isn’t acceptable. Seems unnecessarily stern.
The one upside is that the trainer was very helpful and encouraging.
One thing that I think is missing if that they never teach you to evaluate your lesson. I always write down what works well, what didn’t and why surely this makes you a better teacher. I’m a trained Youth Worker and I was taught to do this after every session. I can’t imagine teachers don’t normally do this.
Overall I wouldn’t recommend this course to my worst enemy! It’s boring, and whilst it did give me some confidence by the time I got to module 2 after that I hated studying and doing this course. I just wanted to finish it and at times thought about giving up! I like teaching but this course made me feel like I never wanted to teach again!