Rethinking the employability of EFL learners : perspectives and solutions

Abstract EN

The job market constantly launches new standards and parameters for employment and employability in all arenas.

This increases risks and impeders for fresh graduates to be appropriately recruited.

For instance, graduates of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) find themselves, at the end of their academic cursus, bound to become a teacher of English or toremain jobless.Unfortunately, these graduates are highly influenced by the new benchmarks of employability.

Although the English language is maintained as the global language and proficiency in English would tremendously escalate and boost employability,graduates of English are stilltorn between two binary situations: unemployment or the occupation of a position, if any, that has nothing to do with university education.