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Since July 2024
Instructor since July 2024
Basic and Business English Language Skills for young students and adults
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I am available to provide English tuition to any students of any age from 5 years old. I have a TEFL certificate and a wide range of experience from teaching people English in Japan, as well as previous careers in Advertising and Finance. I have a love of the language and aim to help any student to improve their grasp of both grammar and the opportunity for them to communicate clearly and imaginatively. I engage my students through creativity, humour and a clearly structured lessons so that they enjoy themselves and make real progress in mastering the language. I am able to help young students navigate the fundamentals, and can work with professionals looking to refine their skills for the workplace.
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  • Around Earlsfield, United Kingdom
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About Me
I am a well rounded and friendly individual with a love of the language and connecting with people. I have experience tutoring English abroad as well as extensive career experience in advertising and finance, so that I can help with fundamental grammar and core English skills, and offer a practical understanding of how they are used in different business environments.
I have a good sense of humour, and look to find creative ways of engaging with students so that they enjoy their learning journey.
Education
4 A levels including English (grade A), History (grade B), Winchester College
BA Hons History (2.1), Bristol University
CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting.
Experience / Qualifications
Teaching English as a Foreign Language Certificate, from the TEFL Org
Practical experience providing tuition in Japan
20 years' business experience in advertising and finance
Age
Children (7-12 years old)
Teenagers (13-17 years old)
Adults (18-64 years old)
Student level
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Duration
60 minutes
The class is taught in
English
Skills
English as a second language (esl)
English for adults
Availability of a typical week
(GMT -04:00)
New York
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At student's home
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12-16
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20-24
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In these neuro-divergent times, the binary division of "one language or two" in bilinguals is perhaps due some contestation, which students are capable of providing. I have always found bilingual production models (and the ubiquitous Powerpoint slide) that university teachers provide a hindrance because of their lack of explicitness and discussion - they are just not relatable as presented nor do they provide much information or examples for monolingual students.

Code-switching, a by-product of bilingualism, is now a term that is even found in minority-ethnic neighbourhood grafitti ("can white people code-switch" a found example). Please note that this is a linguistic term, used for switching between two languages, and not between local or social varieties of English.

My personal position is that there is no such thing as bilingualism: there is always a language that suffers attrition, and one language that prevails, mostly because of its prestigious standing over the other language. On the other hand, a child exposed to more than one language cannot be truly monolingual.

For this course (very popular at universities around Europe both at undergraduate and postgraduate level) we shall go through the terms used to discuss bilingualism, in detail, and then discuss, with the help of published books and articles, who can be considered bilingual (or are we all, one other language lying dormant?). Can bilingualism be defined by the speaker, instead of the "community"? Can it be imposed by the State? Does a bilingual brain function in the same manner as a monolingual brain? These are research questions that emerge as dissertation or thesis topics both at undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
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Emilce
In these neuro-divergent times, the binary division of "one language or two" in bilinguals is perhaps due some contestation, which students are capable of providing. I have always found bilingual production models (and the ubiquitous Powerpoint slide) that university teachers provide a hindrance because of their lack of explicitness and discussion - they are just not relatable as presented nor do they provide much information or examples for monolingual students.

Code-switching, a by-product of bilingualism, is now a term that is even found in minority-ethnic neighbourhood grafitti ("can white people code-switch" a found example). Please note that this is a linguistic term, used for switching between two languages, and not between local or social varieties of English.

My personal position is that there is no such thing as bilingualism: there is always a language that suffers attrition, and one language that prevails, mostly because of its prestigious standing over the other language. On the other hand, a child exposed to more than one language cannot be truly monolingual.

For this course (very popular at universities around Europe both at undergraduate and postgraduate level) we shall go through the terms used to discuss bilingualism, in detail, and then discuss, with the help of published books and articles, who can be considered bilingual (or are we all, one other language lying dormant?). Can bilingualism be defined by the speaker, instead of the "community"? Can it be imposed by the State? Does a bilingual brain function in the same manner as a monolingual brain? These are research questions that emerge as dissertation or thesis topics both at undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
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