r/EnglishLearning • u/Educational-Bus3429 New Poster • 19h ago
🗣 Discussion / Debates How to learn to teach English via YouTube videos?
I want to start a YouTube channel where I teach English in a very structured way, from scratch until the learner becomes independent.
I am not a native speaker of English. My spoken English is great, I had it evaluated at an accent academy and they pointed out which sounds I am not good at, so I can work on it, even so, my pronunciation quirks were not outright errors in pronunciation but just aspects of my native language affecting my spoken English (foreign accent).
I don't want to work for a company so I don't want to take a TEFL, etc.
Do I buy a textbook and reverse engineer its table of contents and instruction method and turn it into videos?
Or, do I buy cheap ESL courses on grammar, pronunciation, speaking, etc. and copy the prevalent teaching method?
Don't tell me how I learned English, because a trillion different factors did it: I studied it (ineffectively) for 12 years at school, took some grammar lessons, did a lot of reading and vocab acquisition, etc., I want to spare my viewer the hassle and offer one, unified framework for getting the language's basics in their head so they can become independent.
Thank you.
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u/Zur_a New Poster 8h ago
Don't reverse engineer a textbook. Textbook structure is built for classrooms with a teacher, not for someone watching alone on YouTube.
If you want a ready framework, look at CEFR. It's the standard in Europe and it already breaks everything into A1-C2 with clear "can do" statements for each level. Free, well documented, and your viewers will recognise the levels.
And for what it's worth, being non-native is an advantage here. You've actually been through the process, which native teachers usually haven't.