Expand Your ESL Tutoring Service to Reach More Students: How to Self-Publish Professional Quality Ebooks and Audiobooks by Kim Staflund

The intention of this book is not to recommend any specific ESL tutoring lesson plans, ideas, or best practices to anyone. My assumption is that, as a certified ESL/TESOL/TESL/TEFL instructor, you already know what you’re doing in this regard. In fact, you’ve most likely been teaching for a while now and have already built up a complete collection of lesson plans for your students. This book is intended to show you how to expand what you’ve already created—to, in essence, “clone yourself” so you can reach even more students online while earning passive income on the side. I’m a certified TESOL instructor, but I’m an author and book publisher first and foremost. As someone with 25 years’ experience in this industry, I can show you how to self-publish professional quality teaching guides that will allow you to earn supplemental income in an efficient way. I know your ESL tutoring service already has you busy enough as it is! ESL TUTORING METHODOLOGIES Every person learns in a different way. Some students are more visual learners who prefer to savour and digest the text in front of them, at their own pace, in the quiet comfort of a favourite learning area. An ebook not only allows them to do this, but it also allows them to go back and review what they’ve read, to give it further thought later on. But in the world of ESL tutoring, visual “teacher-centric” teaching (e.g., assigning reading exercises, following the direct teaching methodology of demonstrations, visuals, and public speaking) is only a fraction of the coursework, isn’t it? Many would say the most effective way to develop new language skills is through auditory “student-centric” teaching (e.g., assigning hearing and listening exercises, utilizing the communicative and task-based learning approaches that involve fun tasks and group/pair work). In this case, audiobooks are the perfect ESL tutoring tool. Audiobooks are also useful for the busy adult ESL learners who spend much of their time commuting on a daily basis—whether they’re driving to work, or taking their kids to and from extracurricular activities after school. These individuals are often left with little spare time for any kind of “traditional” ESL tutoring, so audiobooks are a welcome alternative. It allows them to absorb their English lessons during a break at work, a morning jog, on a plane, or even in the car—to fit their ongoing education into their busy lives. ENGLISH LANGUAGE VARIATIONS IN ESL TUTORING Every certified ESL tutoring professional knows that English is far from being a simple, straightforward language—all the more reason for you to hire a professional editor from the particular “Western-based” English region you’re trying to emulate in your ebook. There are many different editorial style guides associated with ESL tutoring, depending on which country you wish to represent: United Kingdom, Canada, the United States of America, Australia, et cetera. We all have different ways of spelling and punctuating the English language, so we each use different editorial style guides when editing books. In this ebook, I’ll be touching on the importance of consistency in editing, particularly when it comes to ESL tutoring. I know of no other self-publishing “how to” guide that offers this type of advice to its readers, so it makes this ebook all the more useful to you.