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Info about teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL), that you can contribute to.

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Teflpedia is a wiki covering everything associated with teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL). We have an extensive glossary plus a series of conversation questions. You can help us write the content!

Copyright: All Teflpedia content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 licence. You are free to reuse any material with appropriate attribution.

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Teflpedia currently has 5,555 entries in its TEFL Glossary. This aims to summarise everything teachers need to know about TEFL, with a major focus on the linguistics of English and the pedagogy of foreign language teaching.

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Teflpedia currently has 189 sets of conversation questions for use in your EFL classroom.

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• PARSNIP (/pɑ:snɪp/) is an acronym that stands for "politics, alcohol, religion, sex, narcotics, -isms, and pork". These are taboo topics that are excluded from many international EFL books because of their potential to upset people, particularly powerful people, and might therefore impact sales.