This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Cyrus Yongbanthom, a 27-year-old assistant language teacher who moved from Kentucky to Japan. It has been edited for length and clarity.

All international graduate students, whose first language is not English and who intend to be graduate teaching assistants must take the Michigan Tech English Language Assessment. This assessment ...

At Drexel, all non-native English-speaking teaching assistants within the university are screened for language proficiency through an in-house oral proficiency examination, the ITA Speaking Assessment ...

Not all English teachers are the same. An English teacher from the JET programme will share some, but not all, the same experiences as an Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) hired through a haken ...

Now Nagi is focusing on English language education. But rather than follow the tradition of one teacher per class, schools here operate with several assistant language teachers (ALTs), all ...