Several South American nations have American- or British-style bilingual schools and colegios. Although they normally hire state-accredited teachers, a number take on students and university graduates looking for brief periods of work experience as classroom assistants
Voluntary and international exchange organizations which arrange for fee-paying young people to do English tutoring include
WorldTeach, with programs in Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador and Guyana, and
Alliance Abroad, whose destination countries include Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Costa Rica. An increasing number of language schools offer Spanish instruction to paying foreigners in the mornings and arrange a community volunteer program in the afternoons, for example, CIS-MAM in El Salvador and Travel Alive in Nicaragua. Bridge-Linguatec Language Services based in Denver,
www.bridgetefl.com, is a language training company which offers TEFL teacher certification and job placement programs in Latin America and worldwide. TEFL training with Bridge Linguatec lasting from two to four weeks is available in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico and Peru. Other TEFL training colleges in the U.S. like Transworld Schools and the Boston Language Institute send a number of their graduates to posts in Latin America.
Even the poorest of Latin American nations offer possibilities to EFL teachers, provided they are prepared to accept a low wage. In contrast to an hourly wage of $10-$30 in Europeanized cities like Santiago and Rio, the wages paid by language schools in La Paz and Quito may be closer to $3