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Course Tutors

	Duncan Foord, Director of Teacher Training Duncan is from London. His teaching career began there as a teacher and later Director of Studies in a private language school. Since moving to Spain in 1989 he has worked as a a teacher, teacher trainer and Director of Studies in the British Council and private language schools. He is co-founder of OxfordTEFL (1998). He has also worked for spells in France and the Czech Republic and in various destinations around the world as a moderator for Trinity College, London. Duncan holds the Cambridge DELTA and an MEd in TESOL from the University of Manchester. He is co-author with Linsay Clandfield of The Language Teacher's Survival Guide and author of Stepping Forward: practical activities for teacher development (DELTA, forthcoming). He has presented at various conferences and published articles for onestopenglish, HLT Mag and English Teaching Professional.
	Lindsay Clandfield, Course Tutor Lindsay is from Canada. He came to English language teaching after a time as a refugee aid worker in Croatia and Guatemala. His teaching career began in Mexico at the University of Chiapas but he came to Spain in 1999 and has taught General and Business English in a variety of contexts. Lindsay is best known for his work on the popular website Onestopenglish (he has written the grammar reference, speaking lessons, the Guardian news lessons and the podcasts). He is one of the authors on the New English File course (OUP) and the Straightforward course (Macmillan). His books have sold in more than 35 countries. In 2007 Lindsay's book Dealing with Difficulties (with co-author Luke Prodromou, Delta Publishing) won the Ben Warren International House award and was Highly Recommended for the English Speaking Union award as the most innovative and outstanding work published in the field of language teacher education. Lindsay Clandfield and Duncan Foord are co-authors of The Language Teacher's Survival Guide Lindsay holds a Trinity Diploma which he completed at Oxford Tefl.
	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 Oxford Tefl
	Guest Tutors In addition to our regular team guest "expert" tutors offer sessions on areas of special interest. These have included in recent courses 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 and Nicky Hockly 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. Jo Budden Jo has taught young learners in Brazil, Egypt, Hong Kong and Spain. She has worked in the British Council Young Learners' Centre in Barcelona since 1999. Jo has a degree in Spanish and Portuguese and completed the Trinity TESOL Diploma in 2002 at Oxford TEFL. Since then she has taught sessions on classroom management, activities for YLs and motivating teenagers. She has written several articles for the BBC / British Council website, One Stop English and Oxford University Press and she is currently writing materials and teaching tips for the British Council's Language Assistant's website.


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