This month, we interviewed Nick Terpolilli, a US-born ELTABBer. Grab a coffee and settle in for an interesting read! Nick holds an MA in Linguistics/TESOL from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and a BA in English from Grinnell College. As of summer 2022, Nick is a part-time instructor at the… read more >
This month, we interviewed Jo Day, an Australian-raised ELTABBer. Read her bio below, followed by our interview: I’m Jo. I was born in the UK and raised in Australia. I studied creative writing at RMIT in Melbourne and moved to Berlin in 2015. After self-publishing my own book in 2017,… read more >
This month, we interviewed Andrew Creighton, an ELTABBer based in Malmö, Sweden! Read his bio below, followed by our interview: I was born in Northern Ireland but spent my formative years in Lesotho (southern Africa). I have an honours degree in Scandinavian Studies from the University of East Anglia (Norwich).… read more >
Jennifer was born in California and grew up in New York. Her teaching career started when she first arrived in Hamburg, Germany back in 1986, where she taught English in small private schools. In 1988, she returned to New York, where she also taught English and did some teacher training.… read more >
The editor is dead! Long live the editor! Hello everybody, Kit here, (ELTABBer-of-the-Month editor for the past while)… This, I’m afraid, will be my last interview! I have been doing these interviews for at least as long as I can remember now (a year? 18 months? This decade has had… read more >
This month, we interviewed a member with a broad range of teaching experience and qualifications - David Bowskill. Read on to find out more! David is originally from Portsmouth, England. He taught German at secondary level in the UK for some years before settling in Germany, where he began teaching… read more >
Originally from Yorkshire, Mark travelled for a period before moving to Bavaria, where he lived for many years. He enjoyed the better summers and the wonderful outdoor life there, and the freedom of simply being in a foreign country. After spending many years back in the UK, the double trouble… read more >
Daniel Plumridge is relatively new to Berlin, having only moved here in November 2019; he has a BA in French and Spanish and has honed his language skills through multilingual customer-service jobs. Now he's shifting his career focus into our wonderful world of English Teaching! Let's find out more... … read more >
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eleanor-johnston-88700215/ Contact: --- Eleanor Johnston is an English-for-specific-purposes (ESP) teacher at the University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde - however, she has also taught French and German to secondary-school pupils, does (and continues to do) translation work, and even once led a debating team to national glory. Here are… read more >
Due to [NOTE TO SELF - think of a good excuse here before publication], the ELTABBer-of-the-Month interview for October is in a fight-to-the-death with its deadline. To help it out, I have skipped the normal time-consuming procedure of posting a biography and call for questions on the ELTABB forums. Here… read more >
