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I have been active as a teacher,
teacher trainer, author, editor and consultant in the field of
Language Teaching for more than 30 years. I began my career in my
hometown of Cambridge, Massachusetts, where I was a teacher of high
school French and mathematics before moving on to Harvard
University, where I taught English as Second Language to university
personnel.
From 1977 to 1981 I lived and
worked in France, for three years in Paris as a freelance English
teacher, and for one year in rural Brittany as an assistant to the
Director of a café-theater in the village of Dolo (population 218).
Since 1981 I have been based in New
York City, where I am Coordinator of Faculty Development at the
Hunter College International English Language Institute of the City
University of New York. I also lecture in the graduate programs in
TESOL at Teachers College, Columbia University from which I earned
an MEd degree in 1989.
My publications include more than
40 textbooks and teacher reference books. My resource books for
teachers include Cultural Awareness; Video in Second Language
Teaching, and Video in Action. I am Series Editor of the ABC News
ESL Video Library, ESL Director and Supervising Editor of the Hello,
America multimedia ESL course, and co-author of That’s
English, a
telecourse produced by BBC English and the Spanish Ministry of
Education and Science. I am also the primary author of the
Environmental Education volume of the electronic journal Language
and Civil Society published by the US Department of State. My most
recent book, Film, a resource book for teachers, was published by
Oxford University Press in 2001.
In addition to being a featured
speaker at numerous educational conferences in the US and abroad, I
have been a Fulbright Scholar in Bolivia, a Fulbright Lecturer in
Chile, an Open Society Foundation Lecturer in Croatia, and a US–Spain
Joint Committee Lecturer in Spain. As an Academic Specialist for the
US Department of State, I have lectured in teacher education and
development programs in Africa, Europe, the Far East, Latin America,
and the Middle East.
As a consultant, I have worked on
projects for such organizations as Berlitz International, Children’s
Television Workshop, Encyclopedia Britannica, Microsoft Corporation,
and the World Bank.
In my free time, I enjoy opera and
classical music. I also enjoy French literature and cinema and am a
founding member and Vice President of the Molière Society of New
York. I like to visit Paris as often (and for as long) as I can each
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