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TEFL International - Affiliations

TEFL International is externally validated and moderated by an independent Board of Academic Advisors. This board consists of selected internationally recognized experts in the field of English foreign language teaching. The board advises on the content of the course.

Each of our schools are visited every course by local English school managers and language professionals. They inspect our course records and interview every trainee. Feedback from these inspections helps to maintain our high standards course after course.

Members of the Independent Academic Board

Alan Maley

1962-1988: British Council Officer in China, France, Ghana, Italy and Yugoslavia
1988-1993: Bell Educational Trust Director General
1993-1998: Dept. of English Senior Fellow University of Singapore
1998-2003: Director of Graduate Program Assumption University, Bangkok
2003-Present: Independent Consultant and Editor for Oxford University Press

Mario Rinvolucri

Well know teacher trainer and writer of EFL materials. Has been producing course books and teaching materials for the past 26years at Pilgrims. Publications

Brian Tomlinson

Leeds Metropolitan University School of Languages head of Post Graduate Research and Consultancy Unit. Publish over 70 books and articles and delivered over 50 presentations. President and founder of International Materials Development Association.

Richard Day

Professor at the Department for Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii.  Co-Editor of Reading in a Foreign Language. Co-Founder and Chairman of the Extensive Reading Foundation. Producer and developer of EFL materials.

Rob Scott

Teacher trainer, curriculum designer and materials developer. Over 25 years experience in foreign language teaching. Producer of educational materials for Newsweek.

Marc Helgesen

Teacher trainer on the MA TESOL program at Columbia University in Japan. Author of Active Listening, Cambridge University Press. Co-Author of the English Firsthand series, published by Longman. English Firsthand is popular throughout Asia and is the market leading EFL course book in Japan and South Korea.

Dave Hopkins

30 years experience in teaching English as a foreign language. Began his profession as a language teacher and progressed to materials developer, teacher trainer and school manager. Holds an MA TESOL and has been the Director of Academic Programs at TEFL International for a number of years helping to bring TEFL International to the forefront of EFL teacher training with his insight, experience and research.

Dr. Wendy Redlinger

Holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Universityof Arizona. Dr. Redlinger’s experience includes teaching for the US Peace Corps in the Nepal, bilingual research at the University of Bern in Switzerland, training associate, placement specialist and program manager at the Experiment in International Living, Director of the US department of State English Language Fellow Program. From 1990 – 2004 Dr. Redlinger designed the MA TESOL program at the School for International Training.

Affiliations/Associations/Clients:

• AMIDEAST
• BuraphaUniversity, Thailand
• George Mason University, USA
• Hyundai Corporation
• ManipalUniversity, India
• Mercy Ships
• Middlesex University (pending), U.K.
• Ministry of Education, Thailand
• Nike
• Office of Basic Education Commission, MOE, Thailand
• Peace Corps
• University ofSouthern Queensland, Australia