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>From: "Damien Braniff" <dbraniff -at- amphion -dot- com>
>Re: TOEFL
>Apart from Test, I have seen the T stand for Teaching. Some friends of my
>wife (a teacher) has TOEFL on their resume, that is they have a
>qualification to teach English as a foreign language.
>In Canada, that would be TESL: Teaching English as a Second Language.
In the UK, it's TEFL (no O): Teaching English as a Foreign Language. I have
a friend who's a TEFL teacher, and from what I've seen/heard, I don't see
that it would be more useful for technical writing than any other
language-related qualification.
Jane Carnall
Technical Writer, Digital Bridges, Scotland
Unless stated otherwise, these opinions are mine, and mine alone.
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