A pioneering, multi-award-winning series of books for English Language Teachers with professional development in mind, blending theory, practice and development.
The DELTA Teacher Development Series features some of the best and most expert authors in ELT, writing about fundamental areas of professional interest to teachers today. Each title in the series has three distinctive parts – A, B and C, which focus in turn on theory, practice and development:
I’m Gill Johnson and I’ve been a teacher and trainer of EFL for over twenty years. My first job, post CELTA, at the age of 22, was in a prison, where I taught English to foreign inmates. It was a baptism of fire and I certainly learned to be creative and think on my feet there!
Later, I joined IH Hastings, where I became interested in humanistic methodology and trained as
As Gill Johnson and I have written Culture in our Classrooms for the new Delta Teacher Development Series, it is sensible to think back over my life in terms of culture things.
Born 1940……my father locked up in 1940 by the British for being Italian until 1943 when Italy changed sides in the war. My mother was half German and half Liverpool.
My father