Wednesday 16 November 2011
Cheryl Pelteret
I have been involved in language teaching for the past 30 years – as a teacher, editor and writer. After completing my degree at the University of Cape Town, I moved from teaching English as a first and second language, to EFL – first in the UK and then in Turkey, where I taught students of all ages [...]
Read more »Tuesday 6 September 2011
Rebecca Sewell
It was the need to escape an inappropriate boyfriend that propelled me into EFL. I thought I could travel to exciting countries and use my love of words, inherited from my doting grandfather, in a more attainable way than by writing novels or being a rock-chick (two ambitions I still hold actually). Whilst never actually [...]
Read more »Tuesday 30 August 2011
Paul Davis
After 18 years in Birmingham supporting Aston Villa and being high jump champion I moved to Cambridge tech to do a history degree. I stayed on in Cambridge because I had fallen in love just as I was leaving and since it was the only industry in Cambridge I became an English teacher. I still [...]
Read more »Tuesday 30 August 2011
Hania Kryszewska
I am a non-native speaker of English who for 30 years has been involved in various aspects of ELT such as teaching, training, writing and editing. I was brought up bilingually: Polish-German, while English is a language I learned at school, in Communist Poland, from books that were mainly based on the Grammar Translation method. [...]
Read more »Wednesday 3 August 2011
Caroline Caygill
I’ve always been interested in working with words and images. I started out with a degree in the history of art, which took me into the worlds of research, writing and archiving; but then a lust for travel won me over and I went to teach English in Budapest in 1989, freshly qualified from a [...]
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