English in Greece

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This paper explains that, in Greece, there is a huge demand for English teachers. The author points out that there are many English schools, known in Greek as Frontisteria in plural and Fronteisterio in singular, located in almost every neighborhood and cater primarily the local children, who must have a certificate of proficiency in English to get most better jobs. The paper relates that, to get a job as a teacher of English in Greece, one has to be a native English speaker and have a university degree with a certain amount of experience or attendance at a course for training teachers but a Greek teaching license is not required.

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"The teacher has to get around the limitations imposed by the lack of furniture, and the passive attitude of the students by using the other interests of the students and thus make them interested in learning English, and adopt a new attitude towards education in general. Their inborn childish curiosity and enthusiasm must be allowed to come through. The teacher must have the imagination and know-how to be able to achieve this. The schools prescribed textbooks are mostly dull and uninteresting, and without this supplement of enthusiasm, teaching here will not be a good experience. The students here normally have a lot of interests concerning the activities connected with the English language-speaking people, and that should help the teacher to make the subject lively and interesting."

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