Can you recommend any resources for a prospective language tutor?

MaryMurphy · 25 June 2015 at 5:16PM

I am bilingual. I have no formal teaching experience, but I have delivered short training sessions at work and I generally get good feedback that I’m good at explaining things/sharing knowledge (both outside and inside of work), so I am confident in my abilities. Of course I won’t be looking to charge much to begin with, not until I am confident that I can deliver a good service anyway.

I do need good teaching materials, and pointers on how to structure a good lesson plan for beginner lessons. I envisage the lessons to be fairly organic but I am conscious that they’ll still need structure.

My mother used to tutor and teach English when we lived in Italy when I a child, so I do have some insight into the world of teaching a foreign language, but times have moved on since then and nowadays hand-written lessons and language tapes recorded from home aren’t exactly going to cut it

Can anyone recommend books/websites/tips/resources for someone who’s starting off?

I don’t think I’m going to get much interest for this kind of this (the one local college that did teach Italian has now stopped due to lack of interest), but I am hoping there might be bit of demand out there from people looking to learn the basics before going off on holiday etc.

Thanks in advance!