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Hello from sunny Vancouver! (Yes, it’s actually sunny!!)
My name’s Adriana, I am from Mexico and a recently landed immigrant in Canada. I have worked in ELT (English Language Teaching) since 1984 in teacher training, coordination posts, materials design, and teaching. I have also co-authored several textbooks for the Mexican school market. I have an MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, and I am on […]
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gillian 5:05 pm on May 9, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Adriana,
I LOVE the image! I’m with you on course #8 as well. It looks as if we have taken all the same courses – odd that we haven’t run across one another before. I look forward to working with you – you seem to have a great attitude towards learning and life.
gillian
ps. Who DOESN’T love a good BBC series?
adi 7:28 pm on May 9, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Gillian,
We probably hadn’t run across each other because I took a year off.
I also look forward to working with you.
Adriana
mariefrancehetu 5:20 pm on May 9, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Adriana,
Love your sense of humour! What an interesting background you seem to have . . .
Glad to have another language teacher on board – I look forward to working and sharing with you over the term.
Marie-France
dubiend 1:10 pm on May 10, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Adriana,
It must be great to have such diverse work experiences. I’ve taught ESL and FSL and loved it! Of all the topics a person can teach, language teaching seems the one to get teachers and students to bond the most, what with everybody talking about themselves so much.
I hope your transition to living in Canada has gone smoothly.
Take care!
sheza 11:11 am on May 12, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Adriana!
Wow you are an all-star by the sounds of it! I only hope that one day my CV will sound as impressive 🙂
I am also extremely interested in ELT – I started my career teaching at a bilingual school in Berlin, Germany where students conducted 70% of their school day in English and only 30% in German. I then taught in the foreign languages department at a private school in Istanbul, Turkey, teaching English to over 250 students from Grades 5-9. It has been an exciting journey thus far, and I found that the abundance of online resources were extremely helpful when I was first learning how to wrap my head around teaching so many different ESL levels at once!
Looking forward to working with you on this course,
Sheza