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Joint Coordinator
Wendy Arnold
Managing YLT SIG affairs, including finance and membership
Attendance at official IATEFL meetings/ other meetings
Liaison with Head Office and other IATEFL SIGs
Organising events and developing strategic relationships in the world of EFL.
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I have worked as a teacher, teacher trainer, researcher, conference developer and materials developer. I am the author and co-author of coursebooks in Asia and the Middle East. I have trained teachers in Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea), Middle East (Saudi Arabia), Europe (Italy and the UK) and Africa (Cameroon). My special interests are in the professional development of teachers teaching English to children aged 5-17 years old and reading for young learner literacy. I am enjoying having a base back in the UK being close to our three daughters and family.
Joint coordinator
Hans Mol
Managing YLT SIG affairs, including finance and membership
Attendance at official IATEFL meetings/ other meetings
Liaison with Head Office and other IATEFL SIGs
Organising events and developing strategic relationships in the world of EFL.
contact I divide my time between subtropical Northern New South Wales, Australia, and Portugal (Lisbon and de Ser de Estrella). I have three daughters and an extended family to boot.
Over the years, I’ve taught EFL at all levels, ranging from primary to secondary (junior and senior), adult, vocational and higher education. I've delivered teacher training in China, Mexico, the UK, the Netherlands, Indonesia and Germany.
At the end of my teacher training I got the writing bug and wrote a series of textbooks for primary schools in Holland, Real English, of which we have just published the 3rd edition 25 years later. Subsequently, alongside day-time teaching jobs, I wrote many a textbook for all levels imaginable, both general EFL, vocational, adult and ES(A)P, country-specific titles as well as international ones. For the past 9 years I've been a full-time textbook writer. working for publishers all over the world, most recently for Macmillan (UK and Mexico), Garnet Education and OUP. See my website for more information. My pet interests in EFL are: English for young learners, primary and secondary (6-16ish); and how to make grammar fun and relevant for anybody; but I basically enjoy writing for any level and any skill. When I do not write, I paint, write/record/sing music and ride my white Percheron horse Big Boy a.k.a. Samson through the hills.
Events Coordinator
Niki Joseph
Organizing the annual Pre-conference event
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I live and work in Portugal running my own language school, being a teacher, trainer and a Cambridge ESOL examiner/team leader/presenter. My days are varied - teaching English to primaries, teens and company classes. I also teach music through English to preschoolers. Over the past 17 years I've taught and trained in various countries - Egypt, Brazil, UK, S Africa & Portugal. I'm interested in lots of areas of EFL - online education, motivation in teenagers, preschool music being taught through EFL, and of course (being an examiner) assessment, evaluation & testing. I also do translations - enjoying the tranquility compared to the primary classroom!! Pastimes include watercolour painting, tennis , music and reading.
Website Manager
Chris Etchells
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I'm Co-Director with my wife Sarah of English Country Schools, a British Council Accredited residential English Language summer camp organisation for children and teenagers. I enjoy computers, management, my family, music, English pedagogy and the countryside. I'm particularly interested in the teaching of English through projects and activities in the natural environment. I'm also interested in affective issues such as the effects of self-esteem, different learning styles, multiple intelligences, etc, on children's learning.
Publications Co-Editor
Janice Bland
Contact As a child I watched stretches of Epping Forest disappear to make way for London orbital motorways, so I chose to study English Literature and Drama at the distant University of North Wales, Bangor. Bangor is a tiny city in the beautiful, bilingual county of Gwynedd, sandwiched between the Snowdonia Mountains and the Irish Sea.
I’ve been living in Germany for so long, the past is quite literally another country. So I’m delighted to join the IATFL YL committee, which brings me closer to the rest of the world, as well as that “other country”, once (perhaps still) my home. As to Germany, it’s become a country of contrasts, the greatest of which is – very sadly – the contrast between rich and poor. There is a lot of work to be done in education now in Germany. I am a teacher educator, at the University of Hildesheim. I specialise in language teaching didactics for the most demanding and challenging age (says me): the primary school child. I am keenly interested in using young adult and children's literature in language education. I also lecture on drama as methodology; visual and critical literacy and creative writing. I am a materials developer. I’ve published textbooks and educational software, picture books, five collections of plays for primary and secondary learners, and many articles on language education – which is how I first became involved with the IATEFL YL journal: CATS.
Publications Co-Editor
Janet Crossley
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I was born in Canada, where I was French schooled, but have lived in the UK most of my life studying a BA and MA in English at the University of London. I recently trained as a proofreader and edit question papers and webpages for a national exam board.
My EFL career began after living in France for a ski season in the Savoie Alps: I enjoyed meeting (and dining!) with people, speaking the language and snowboarding through the morning powder... but it was the translation element that spurred me on to the CELTA.
I spent 3 years as Welfare Officer/Teacher in London and then went on to Italy where my youngest learner was a 4-year-old. I also did a Senior Teacher role at an internatinal summer school for teenagers - I find the skills I learnt there come in useful for managing my delinquent cat! I'm looking forward to shadowing Kerry through the next year of YLT publications and learning about you all.
Events Co-ordinator
Harry Kuchah
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Harry Kuchah is National Pedagogic Inspector in charge of Bilingual Education in the Ministry of Basic Education in Cameroon. He is also Secretary General and Chief Convenor of the Cameroon English Language and Literature Teachers’ Association. He holds an MA in English Language Teaching for Young Learners from the University of Warwick.
Events Co-ordinator
Caroline Linse
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Discussion moderator
Dennis Newson
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