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In Barcelona we are moderated each month
according to the requirements of TEFL
International and are visited once a year by a
member of the International Board.
We are also externally moderated and validated
by IATQUO for the Combined Course program which
we offer through the International TEFL
Corporation.
TEFL International is externally validated
and moderated by a Board of Academic
Advisers. This board includes several
internationally recognised experts in the field of
English Teaching as well as dozens of local
English School managers around the world.
- Alan Maley worked for The
British Council from 1962 to 1988,
serving as English Language Officer in
Yugoslavia, Ghana, Italy, France, and China,
and as Regional Representative in South India
(Madras). From 1988 to 1993 he was
Director-General of the Bell Educational
Trust, Cambridge. From 1993 to 1998 he was
Senior Fellow in the Department of English
Language and Literature of the National
University of Singapore, and from 1998 to 2003
he was Director of the graduate programme at
Assumption University, Bangkok. He is
currently a freelance consultant, and Series
Editor for the Oxford University Press
Resource Books for Teachers series (author of
The Language Teacher's Voice).
His publications include Resource Books for
Teachers: Literature,
Beyond Words, Sounds Interesting, Sounds
Intriguing, Words, Variations
on a Theme, and Drama Techniques in Language
Learning (all with
Alan Duff), The Mind's Eye (with
Françoise Grellet and Alan Duff),
Learning to Listen and Poem into Poem
(with Sandra Moulding), Short and
Sweet, and The English
Teacher's Voice.
- David Nunan is Chair
Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of
the English Centre at the University of Hong
Kong. Prior to this, he was Director of Research
and Development, NCELTR, and Coordinator of
Postgraduate Programs in Linguistics at
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He has
published over 100 books and articles in the
areas of curriculum and materials development,
classroom-based research, and discourse
analysis. His recent publications include
Introducing Discourse Analysis (Penguin
Books), The Self-Directed Teacher
(Cambridge University Press), Voices from
the Language Classroom (with Kathleen
M. Bailey) (Cambridge University Press), The
Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers
of Other Languages (with R. Carter -
Cambridge University Press) and Pursuing
Professional Development: The Self as
Source (with K. Bailey and A. Curtis)
(Heinle & Heinle). His textbook projects
include ATLAS, Go For It,
Listen In, Speak Out and
Expressions, all published by Heinle
& Heinle/Thomson Learning. Go For
It has recently been selected and adapted
by People’s Education Press as a basal
textbook series for middle schools in China. He
was President of TESOL 1999-2000.
- Mario Rinvolucri is a
well-known teacher trainer and has been in the
English language teaching field for over 30
years - the last 26 years with
Pilgrims. Rinvolucri also edits Pilgrim's online
magazine Humanising Language Teaching,
and his latest work is the CDROM-based
language-learning software, Mind
Game. (March 2000)
- Brian Tomlinson is Head of
the Post-Graduate, Research and Consultancy
Unit at the School of Languages at Leeds
Metropolitan University. He's been around a
long time in many countries (Nigeria, Zambia,
Vanuatu, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore) and
he's worked as a kitchen porter, secondary
school teacher, film extra, teacher-trainer,
curriculum developer, hop picker, director of
studies, university lecturer and football
coach.
Brian has given presentations to teachers
in nearly 50 countries and published over 70
books and articles (including Materials
Development in Language Teaching and
Developing Materials for Language
Teaching). He's also the Founder and
President of MATSDA, the International
Materials Development Association, which runs
annual conferences and workshops and publishes
its journal Folio twice a year.
He is co-author of Discover
English, a methodology book for English
language teachers which focuses on language
analysis.
- Richard Day is Chair &
Co-Founder of the Extensive Reading Foundation
(ERF). He is currently a Professor in the
Department of Second Language Studies at the
University of Hawaii. He is also co-editor of
the online journal Reading in a Foreign
Language. He has developed teaching
materials, including Impact Issues and
Impact Topics, both with Junko
Yamanaka, and Journeys Reading 3, with
Jim Swan and Masayo Yamamoto.
- Robb Scott's first teaching
experience outside of a university was at the
Kickapoo Nation School, in Powhattan, Kansas,
where he taught English and journalism in the
early 1980s. From Powhattan (and Lawrence), he
headed out on his first international adventure,
teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) in
Quito, Ecuador. In Quito he enjoyed teaching
middle school ESL at Colegio Einstein and
Academia Cotopaxi, an international K-12
American style school. At Cotopaxi, he did a
stint as the middle school detention monitor as
well as working in Spanish with a local printer
to help the high school students publish their
American style yearbook.
Several years later, he found himself in
Japan, where he had the pleasure of working on
several American branch-campus start-up
projects, writing ESL curriculum and training
teachers. He lived in Nakajo where he got to
see shows by Neil Young, Carole King and the
Rolling Stones; Nikko, where there is a famous
shrine to Emperor Ieyasu Tokugawa, who started
the Edo period; and Nagoya, a city which was
completely rebuilt after WWII.
Most recently, he was in Brooklyn, New
York, where he wrote education materials for
Newsweek, served as a technical instructor
helping junior high students build Web pages
in a Cablevision project, studied at Teachers
College, Columbia University, and started an
online newsletter for ESOL (English for
Speakers of Other Languages)
professionals. Robb and his wife Meribel are
very happy to be at Fort Hays, 80 miles from
Great Bend, where Robb grew up and attended
4th through 12th grades.
- Marc Helgesen is co-author
of the English Firsthand textbook
series (Longman) which is the market leader in
Japan and Korea and popular throughout
Asia. He is also an author of Active
Listening, from Cambridge University
Press. He teaches at Miyagi
Gakuin––a women’s university
in Sendai, Japan––and also in the
Columbia University Teachers College MA TESOL
program - Japan. He has led teacher
development workshops throughout Asia and has
been a featured speaker at JALT (Japan Assoc.
for Language Teaching), Korea TESOL and Thai
TESOL.
We are actively seeking additional ESL
professionals to join this board. Interested
individuals may Email daveh@teflintl.com
Each TEFL International
site is visited by local ESL professionals and
school managers each month to conduct an
external moderation and ensure that the highest
standards in training, facilities and service
are being met.
- Burapha University
- University of Southern Queensland
- Manipal University
- Hyundai Corporation
- PDA
- Ministry of Education, Thailand
- New Zealand Education Global Services Ltd.
- Aspire New Zealand: Creative Education and ESL Learning Centre Ltd.
- AMIDEAST
- Nike
- Peace Corps
- Office of Basic Education Commission, MOE, Thailand
- Dave’s ESL Café
- Ajarn.com
- Oregon Institute of International Education
- Virgin Radio
- Middlesex University (pending)
The International TEFL Corporation is an
institutional member of IATEFL (the International
Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign
Language). See www.iatefl.org for more
details of this organisation.
IATQUO
We are also externally moderated by IATQUO for
the Combined Course program and the TITC
Mediterranean TEFL Course which is offered
through the International TEFL Corporation.
The International TEFL Corporation is an
institutional member of IATEFL (the International
Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign
Language www.iatefl.org) and the United Kingdom
College of Teachers.
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