Duncan Foord
Duncan Foord
Director of Teacher Training
Duncan has been teaching and training teachers for 25 years in Spain, the UK , France and the Czech Republic. He also works as a CertTESOL moderator for Trinity College, London.
He has a Trinity DipTESOL and MEd in TESOL. He is co-author, with Lindsay Clandfield, of the Language Teacher's Survival Handbook (It's Magazines, 2007) and The Developing Teacher (Delta publishing, 2009).
He is a regular presenter at conferences on a range of areas, in particular teacher development and leadership and management in ELT.
Lindsay Clandfield
Lindsay Clandfield
Course Tutor
Lindsay Clandfield is a teacher, trainer and author based in Spain. After finishing his Diploma at Oxford TEFL, Lindsay began writing materials for It's For Teachers and for Onestopenglish, which was just starting out at the time.
He has since written several books for language learners, most notably Straightforward (Macmillan) and contributed to other courses such as New English File (Oxford University Press). His first book for teachers was Dealing with Difficulties (Delta publishing, with co-author Luke Prodromou), which won critical acclaim in the profession as well as two international awards.
Lindsay then co-wrote The Language Teacher's Survival Handbook with Duncan Foord and became series editor for the new Delta Teacher Development Series of books which include titles by Mario Rinvolucri, Scott Thornbury and Duncan Foord among others.
Lindsay still writes regularly for Onestopenglish and is currently working on another coursebook for adult language learners with Macmillan. He is a regular presenter at conferences and has given workshops to educators in more than 20 countries on four continents.
Lindsay is a keen blogger, and you can read more about what's on his mind at the site www.sixthings.net, a miscellany of English Language Teaching.
Mark McKinnon
Mark McKinnon
Course Tutor
Mark is one of the main tutors on the LTCL Diploma course. He has 15 years' experience in EFL teaching in Spain and his native Scotland.
He has been based in Barcelona since 1998 where he has taught general and business English to a wide variety of students including many years of patient teaching with children and teenagers, which he actually quite liked.
He has been a tutor on the LTCL Diploma in TESOL course in Barcelona since 2003 as well as tutoring on TESOL Certificate courses.
He has written web-based activities for the Straightforward series by MacMillan and articles and activities for onestopenglish.com. He loves writing materials and gets quite excited about task design and Second Language Acquisition, but if pushed he would always say he preferred to be at the chalk-face of day-to-day teaching.
So, he divides his time between this work and his EFL teaching post at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Mark holds the LTCL Diploma which he attained at OxfordTEFL.
Guest Tutors
In addition to our regular team, guest expert tutors offer sessions on areas of special interest. Recent courses have seen sessions by Scott Thornbury, Gavin Dudeney and Nicky Hockly, Mark Powell, Kyle Mawer and Jo Budden.
Scott Thornbury
Scott Thornbury is Associate Professor on the MA TESOL program at the New School in New York, and has an MA (TEFL) from the University of Reading. His previous experience includes teaching and training in Egypt, UK, Spain, and in his native New Zealand.
He has written extensively on areas of language and methodology, his most recent books being Beyond the Sentence: An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, and An A-Z of ELT (both Macmillan), Natural Grammar (OUP) which won a British Council ELT Innovations Award in 2004, and Grammar (OUP), which earned a special mention in the English Speaking Union awards for 2006, and Conversation: From Description to Pedagogy (with Diana Slade, CUP).
He is currently the series editor of the Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers (CUP). He divides his time between New York and Barcelona.
Gavin Dudeney
Gavin is the Project Director for The Consultants-E, an online training and development consultancy specialising in distance education and training. Author of the Cambridge University Press title “The Internet and the Language Classroom (2000, 2007) and co-author (with Nicky Hockly) of the Pearson Longman title “How to Teach English with Technology” (2007), a lot of his current work is with Second Life and the application of serious games in education.
In his nineteen years in language education he has been a teacher, trainer, web designer, materials writer and distance trainer.
He is currently co-authoring a new book on blended learning, to be published in 2008.
Mark Powell
Mark is one of the world's leading Business English teachers, teacher trainers and materials writers. He is the author of a range of course books and resource books for Business English including In Company Intermediate (2002) and In Company Upper Intermediate (2004).
A popular presenter at many international conferences, Mark has spoken, often as a keynote speaker, all over Europe and the Americas to teachers and trainers as well as sales and marketing personnel.
He is course leader for the Trinity Certificate in International Business English Training and the Certificate in One to One Coaching at OxfordTEFL.
Kyle Mawer
Kyle Mawer teaches in Barcelona and has 13 years' experience teaching Young Learners and Adults. Kyle’s interest is in the use of technology in ELT particularly Second Life.
He is Project Officer at the British Council for Learn English Second Life for teens which is based on the Second Life teen grid. He has his own wikispace (kylemawer.wikispaces.com), which is dedicated to adapting online computer games for English language learning and has published articles on the internet on the subject.
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