Briony BeavenNILE Consultant Trainer

Briony is a language teaching consultant, teacher trainer and materials writer. She taught English in a British secondary state school (PGCE and QTS) for several years before moving into teaching EFL, later becoming the DoS in a very large adult education institute.

She has worked with teachers in many countries around the world, and supervised students on the NILE MA course for many years. Briony is a Cambridge Teaching Awards DELTA tutor, and was also a DELTA assessor and moderator. She is currently a DELTA tutor for NILE. She has served as the Co-ordinator of the Teacher Trainers’ and Educators’ Special Interest Group of IATEFL and was Editor of IATEFL Conference Selections for five years. She has presented at many international conferences and has written coursebooks for Oxford University Press and for Cornelsen Verlag, as well as publishing in professional journals. Briony has written a number of specially commissioned teacher training and trainer training courses, and is at present writing a new book dealing with teacher education.

Her ELT qualifications include the UCLES Dip. TEFL and a Doctorate of Education in TEFL.