1. Question from Sarah: What advice would you give to a new freelance teacher breaking away from language schools and finding their own clients? Also what advice would you give to people wanting to change their career and become a freelance English teacher? If you’re looking to find your own… read more >
1. Galina would like you to share your great idea for giving feedback/homework/revision by recording a short message. What’s worked wonders with my private students and very small group lately has been me making an audio recording on their smart phone (or for small groups an audio message in a… read more >
Xing Profile: https://www.xing.com/profile/Halyna_Khinchuk Contact: 1. Do you have any tips for new or future parents who are also freelance? This is really a tricky one. What I learnt about parenting is that there are no rights or wrongs. There’s only what is ‘right’ and ‘good’ for your family and… read more >
1. You taught in Hong Kong for a while, what took you there? I think it was a culmination of things, but ultimately it boiled down to wanting a challenge: getting out of my comfort zone, working on my professional development, diversifying my experience. At the time I was in… read more >
Website: eigenenglish.de exitroute.org 1. What was the best/worst thing about managing a language school? Sharing success/failing personally. 2. Do you think managing a language schools gave new insights into teaching? Yes, plenty. Especially with all the practical work with teachers: 1000s of hours of observations, feedback sessions, doing new teacher… read more >
How do you incorporate intercultural competence in your language classes? For me, intercultural competence is a core skill these days, especially when people have to work in international teams. I like to introduce specific intercultural critical incidents and use this as a basis for discussion. What happened, why did it… read more >
You teach young learners and business English, do these learners have much in common? Every adult is a kid at heart and nothing is more motivating while learning a language than relaxing, enjoying what you are doing and having fun. My BA is in Business and German and I worked… read more >
Having worked in a number of different fields, what has been your favourite ELT job? There have been two: Helping pioneer teaching via video-conferencing in a European telecom project in the early 80s was great fun. The technology has changed from needing a floor full of technicians to today’s using… read more >
What have been the biggest challenges you've faced in your ELT professional life? Probably having to move from general ELT to ESP and then to EAP. It meant spending a lot of time understanding the needs in each particular form of ELT, reading literature, developing new material and familiarizing myself… read more >
Website: www.e4b.de What's been your favourite ELTABB moment? There have been so many great moments. I think one of the first was seeing ELTABB really take off. And then I think other special moments have happened every time a new chair and new committee came along. For me this turnover… read more >
