Special Issue professionals. Likewise, this obstacle also led to a "dilemma" whether or not to apply these
methods and techniques to match the local needs of the learners (Sulaimani, 2015).
King (2016), in his article, reviews a critical reflection of the CELTA. He highlights that the
CELTA is “in danger of not meeting the needs of its candidates in the teaching situations they
are in and therefore becoming increasingly irrelevant”. Precisely, King tries to explain that there
is too much of attention to the techniques of teaching rather than underlying them. He also
concludes that if the relevance of the course CELTA to its candidature is sustained, it does serve
teacher educators worldwide. This argument leads to an idea that relevance of the course’s
purpose where the candidate is applying afterwards determines if the course is serving the
candidates.
It is also arguable that the reason the course is short and intensive there is a risk related to time
constraints, which means that throughout the short course the trainees are less likely to
experience valuable qualities of TEFL. They include such aspects as a reflection after the
completion, internalization, and experience that come mainly by time.
Both views, supporting or contradicting to CELTA's essence in teacher's career improvement do
make sense to the topic whether the introduction of the CELTA course in Uzbekistan makes an
influential contribution into both professional growth of ESL teachers is an interesting realm to
examine and discover. This creates a reasonable idea to be a good research gap.
The study uses the philosophy of "Interpretivism". As the field of observing various subjective
views on the course and observing social phenomena by collecting qualitative data mainly. Also,
interpretivism is one form of qualitative methodology, relies upon both the trained researcher and
the human subject as the instruments to measure some phenomena. Hence, this project is
conducted by carrying out mostly interviews which are qualitative research types and
correspondingly match the philosophy of "Interpretivism".
The respondents clearly stated that their aim was to gain more knowledge in teaching on
international levels and also making money out of it. This can make an understanding that
potential participants of the course expect the course to be as fruitful as it promises to be and
they expect to utilize the knowledge after graduation. As the respondents during the interviews
said that they are happy to implement the tools and instructions learned during the course. Also
the respondents mentioned about increasing their employability which means that they consider
the course to be valuable for their career path. Now employs teachers for his education centre
and he differentiates the teachers based on the standards of CELTA (feedback part of the course).
In fact, the knowledge received from the course also serves for upper positions from teaching. It
was also mentioned during the interview that the knowledge acquired from the course is still
being practiced and digested throughout the time.
The benefits gained during the course can be classified as meeting the expectations more than
assumed. It is mainly because that the candidates expect the course to be valuable for their career
and teaching, and of course brings more than expected. It is also important to note that there was
no respondent who claimed about the quality of the course or counted any disappointments about
the course.