Moderation
Our course is externally moderated and given international accreditation by a Board of Academic Advisors.
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. International board members visit TEFL International regions worldwide annually.
In Rome we are moderated each month according to the requirements of TEFL International
Members of the International Board
Alan Maley
Alan 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’sVoice). 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
David 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
Mario 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
Brian 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
Richard 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
Robb’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
Marc 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.
IATEFL
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.
The SCHOOL in Rome is an institutional Member
of the United Kingdom College of Teachers
