TESOL Law

Some five years ago, two attorneys began the site known as EFL-Law.com. Each year the site received over 100,000 English teachers seeking help and guidance. The laws they faced in their new countries were often strange and far from what they had been used to.

Simultaneously with this expansion and desire for legal knowledge by teachers who had moved to foreign countries, was the frequent request for guidance from a legal stand point as to what it was the teachers who were teaching second language skills should and should not do.

This site has grown out of a constantly increasing demand for better and further legal training and better and further understanding of the intricate mix of SLA education combined with the laws of those SLA countries that over one million teachers go to each year.

There is no doubt this is a new and narrowly focused area of EFL/ESL/TESOL teaching. Yet it is a crucial area. The Asian EFL Journal has even gone as far to include a Law Module in their TESOL Certificate - a first time ever component -but one acutely needed.

There is much this journal can do to help language teachers:-
a) dissemination of legal news that affects a teachers sojourn
b) an examination of the laws that affect a teachers sojourn
c) presenting a Code of Ethics for examination and consideration of by all teachers who teach English as a Second Language.
d) Critical articles examining points of law that are intricately mixed with teaching

As the Journal develops, we look forward to receiving your thoughts and suggestions - the ESL/EFL/TESOL profession is growing into a seriously accepted social science - but there is much to do along the way.