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Dave Allan – Academic Director
Dave has organised and taught on more than a hundred teachers’ courses in over 30 countries. He works as an international consultant for the Council of Europe, the British Council and the Department for International Development. He is a Visiting Fellow of the University of East Anglia, Chair of MATSDA, Deputy Co-ordinator of the IATEFL TEASIG and an author for Oxford University Press. |
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Sarah Mount - Assistant Director
Sarah Mount has
been involved in marketing and management for 17 years,
both in the UK and overseas. After completing an MA in the
anthropology of non-Western art, at the Sainsbury Research
Unit, University of East Anglia, she joined NILE in 2000.
She spent four years as Marketing Manager and has been Assistant
Director since 2007. Sarah holds an ENGLISH UK Postgraduate
Diploma in ELT Management and teaches on the ELT Management
course at NILE. She is Events Co-ordinator for the IATEFL
ELT Management SIG and has presented at various international
conferences.
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Rod Bolitho -
Academic Director
Rod has worked
in language education as teacher, teacher trainer and manager
for nearly 40 years in both the public and private sectors.
Rod has an international reputation as author, trainer and
consultant to major ELT projects in Europe and beyond. He
has worked regularly on Masters programmes in TESOL and
Trainer Training, directed numerous British Council specialist
seminars and has current research interests in language
awareness, trainer training and materials development.
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Alan Pulverness–
Assistant Academic Director
Alan Pulverness
is the author / co-author of a number of ELT textbooks,
including the award-winning Short Course Programme (Macmillan
1993). He has worked extensively with the British Council
in Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland on cultural studies teaching
materials and syllabus projects and in Russia on reader
development. He has also edited students’ editions
of Macbeth (Cornelsen 2005) and Romeo and Juliet (Cornelsen
2007) and was editorial adviser for The Literary Labyrinth
(Società Editrice Internazionale 1989; 1991) and
The Worldwide Reader (Oxford University Press 2001). From
2002 to 2006 he was the editor of IATEFL Conference Selections
and from 2001 to 2005 he was co-chair of the British Council’s
Oxford Conference on the Teaching of Literature. His main
professional interests are in language teacher development,
intercultural awareness, and the role of literature in language
learning, His most recent publication (with Mary Spratt
and Melanie Williams) is The TKT Course (Cambridge University
Press 2005).
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