My name is Carmen Gloria Garrido; I am a Chilean EFL teacher and I work in a university. I have been a teacher for more than twenty years and I have taught different levels at schools, univerisities and bilingual schools.

Hi all,

My name is Manuel F. Lara. I'm Spanish and I'm one of the moderators in ESOL forum. I've been an EFL teacher at secondary education, but know I'm working at a project on CLIL and bilingual education. For all of you who are interested in BE, you can visit the social network where we are working on this topic. You can enter, and sign up (if you want) at

http://bilingualeduc.ning.com

Please, post here any topic or issue you want to be discussed. 

Best,

Manuel

Hi

My name is Larissa Ilina. I am Russian and have been teaching English in a Secondary school for many years. My students are of different ages and levels. In my more than 30 years in the profession I have seen different course books and tried different hechniques. English has become very pupular in Russsia and it is necessary for many professins. That is why many school graduates choose the United National Exam in English. To prepare students for this exam a teacher has to develop student's skills in reading, writing, listening and speaking. To motivate the students I use the project method. It helps me in many ways: students communicate with native speakers with the help of forums, e-mails and blogs.

Hi,
My name's Mark Hamilton. I'm studying the Master of Education (TESOL) at the University of Edinburgh. My dissertation is due in in August. Then I'll return to teaching English full-time - something I started doing in 1990.
I've taught in Scotland, Spain, France and Japan. My interests include music, football, videoing and online learning.
Nice to meet you ;O)

Hi everyone

My name's Bev Davies and I co-ordinate the ESOL Special Interest Group for IATEFL.  Unfortunately I can't be at the conference this year because of work commitments ... I work for Salford City College, a Further Education College in North West England,  where I teach ESOL to refugees, asylum seekers, migrant workers and members of settled migrant communities from complete beginner upwards. I'll be posting as much as I can and the first thing  I'll do is add a photo!

Got to get back to evening classes now!

Bev  

My name is Nellie (Muller) Deutsch. I have been teaching English as a foreign language for over 30 years. I have been integrating technology into the ESL/EFL classroom since the 1990s. I have been involved in international collaborative projects and WebQuests via Moodle for the past 5 years. My first website, Nellie's English Projects was an experiment that evolved from a WebQuest and started me off as a webmistress in the days of html before web 2.0 tools. I facilitate online and face-to-face workshops on how to use Wikieducator as a collaborative tool for instruction and learning and conduct online workshops and conferences. I also moderate live online workshops for Electronic Village Online which is a project of TESOL's CALL Interest Section, storytelling and cultures, and integration of technology and web 2.0 tools into the classroom on WiZiQ.

I love learning and am currently completing my doctoral studies in educational leadership specializing in curriculum,and instruction online at the University of Phoenix and writing my dissertation. I am researching blended learning and instructor use of technology in higher education. In my spare time, I mentor educators on how to integrate web 2.0 tools for instruction and learning. I would like to see e-learning available and free worldwide.

I am looking forward to collaborating with other educators on the best ways to integrate technological tools in order to facilitate and improve instruction and learning.

Please feel free to contact me by email

Warm wishes,

Nellie Deutsch

My name's Elzbieta and I teach ESOL in a small state college in Dunstable (near Luton) in England. I'm also involved in teacher training which I find interesting, challenging and fulfilling my need for sharing my experience of teaching.

I may come to Cardiff on Friday!

Best Wishes

Elzbieta

Hi all,

My name is Taliakum from Nagaland. I am a research scholar currently working on Vocabulary(yet to narrow down on a topic).

ELE/ELT is sort of pretty new in our region.So, I am still crawling but hope to start walking soon.I would need your ideas and suggestions on the areas on which this work can be taken up.

God bless!

Taliakum

Hi Taliakum, vocabulary is an interesting topic, sometimes neglected though. Have you thought about strategies used by studnets to learn vocabulary? Rebecca Oxford's book is quiete clear and helpful

cheers!