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ESOL Teachers in Waikato Institute of
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Michelle Fitzjohn |
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Grad.
Dip. TESOL
Michelle Fitzjohn has worked in the education sector for more than 30 years, in different roles, but she has discovered that ESOL English students teach her as much as she teach her students, so she gained her Grad. Dip. TESOL in 2007. She also have a special interest in tutoring for the OET language test for medical professionals. Currently, this involves further training to deliver the new updated version of the test. She have been working at WIE since 2013. |
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Mary Rose Lithgow
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PgDip in
Second Language Teaching, with Distinction, Bachelor of Teaching,
Certificate of International TESOL, National Certificate of Adult
Learning (NCALE), ATCL (Speech and Drama)
Mary Rose is an
experienced ESL teacher, having taught students at all levels from
beginner to advanced. She has had international experience teaching
literacy in Singapore and English in China where she and her husband
established an English learning centre in Guangzhou. She is also an
examiner for Cambridge English examinations. Her love of teaching
and the students she meets are her motivation. |
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Rosemary Granger |
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BA (Hons)
degree in English and an MA in General Linguistics, Higher Education
Diploma (High School Teaching), Certificate in English Language
Teaching to Adults (CELTA)
Rosemary has taught English as a First Language, English as a Second
Language and English as an Additional Language to Intermediate and
High School students and to students in Bridging Programmes at
universities. Before immigrating to New Zealand, I also taught
Linguistics papers to students in degree programmes and to English
teachers in a postgraduate programme at a university in South
Africa. For 14 years, Rosemary worked in Foundation Studies at the
University of Waikato where she taught English and Academic Literacy
to International students as well as being involved in English for
Specific Purposes in Physics and heading a Curriculum Renewal
project. Since joining the WIE in 2017, Rosemary have taught
students at Beginner, Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate and Upper
Intermediate levels and am currently teaching students who are
studying for the New Zealand Certificate in Language Teaching (Level
5) as well as working on course development projects at various
levels and developing a new Level 7 Diploma in Language Teaching. |
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Margaret Bakker |
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BA Linguistics, PgDip
SLT
After living and teaching English in Japan, Margaret decided to move
back to New Zealand and obtain a Postgraduate Diploma in Second
Language Teaching. In addition to English teaching, she has been
involved in the development and delivery of WIE’s New Zealand
Certificate of Language Teaching Levels 4 and 5. Margaret is
friendly, approachable and dedicated to her students’ wellbeing and
achievement. She has a passion for the ongoing development of
materials and lessons that are not only stimulating, but of value to
the overall language acquisition process. |
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Greg Parkinson |
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Master of Arts in TEFL
(Teaching English as a Foreign Language) with Merit
Greg is a dedicated and experienced ESOL teacher. He has thirteen
years teaching experience including ten years at Gachon University
in South Korea. He is knowledgeable and very enthusiastic about
teaching English. Greg is a professional educator with a
communicative approach who can adapt to create fun, effective and
inclusive learning classroom environments while attending to the
specific needs of individual learners. He is also a published ESOL
author (Grammar High and Writing Jump) with an excellent pedagogical
appreciation of the English language. Greg returned to Hamilton, his
hometown, earlier this year and he is excited to be part of the team
at WIE! |
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Robert Wayne Lynne |
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CLTA (Certificate in
Language Teaching for Adults), B(Ed) Bachelor of Education)
incomplete
Robert Lynne is a very experienced English language tutor with a
caring friendly attitude. He has a CLTA (Certificate in Language
Teaching for Adults) and is part way through a B(Ed) Bachelor of
Education). Robert has managerial experience in Eosl at a
polytechnic in Auckland, as well as other teaching experience. He
has been a Driving Instructor, Defensive Driving Course Facilitator,
and has designed a Road Safety course for the Automobile
Association. He has also taught guitar and vocal training.! |
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Rowena McCoy |
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ESOL Teaching
Certificate, Masters Degree in English Literature
Rowena has been teaching at W.I.E for nearly three years and
completed her ESOL Teaching Certificate at Wintec and my Master’s
Degree in English Literature from Waikato University. She has worked
as a volunteer with young children needing reading and literacy
skills for over five years, at her sons school (Aberdeen Primary).
Rowena has also worked for the English Department at Waikato
University as a Researcher and Tutor. |
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Jenn Douglas |
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Master in Applied Linguistics (enrolled), CELTA certificate,
Bachelors in Adult Education
Jenn has
a Bachelors in Adult Education from Brock University in Ontario
Canada. A CELTA certificate from the University of Waikato. She
has been teaching for a number of years. She taught in Colleges
in Canada. She is a second language learner of French and Te reo
Maaori. More recently, she has worked at Pathways College, the
University of Waikato and at WIE. Jenn is currently continuing
her studies at the University at Waikato in Applied Linguistics.
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J.P. Jennings |
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NZCLT 5. PgDip in Second Language Teaching (Enrolled)CELTA
JP is a friendly
person with a passion for learning languages. He speaks
French and Spanish to a high level as well as some Japanese.
He has spent 6 months teaching English in Spain and has been
at WIE for one year. Living in Spain lets JP understand
first-hand what it’s like to live in a different country and
helps him relate to students from a range of different
cultural backgrounds. Having done a degree in Linguistics
and Spanish, as well as the NZCLT level 5, JP has a high
level of understanding of the English language and student
needs. JP is currently working towards his Postgraduate
Certificate in Applied linguistics with the intention to
purse a Masters. JP is committed to creating a fun and
interesting learning environment to help students achieve
their goals.
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Christa Row |
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Christa became
interested in languages at a young age. She studied Japanese
and Spanish at high school and graduated from the University
of Waikato with a degree in linguistics. She is currently
studying Italian and Croatian and looking into the science
of second language acquisition..
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Waikato Institute of Education
Address: Level 1, Tower Building, 48 Ward Street,
PO Box 773, Hamilton, New Zealand
Phone: 64 - 7 - 8382450
Fax: 64 - 7 - 838 2453
Email:
info@wie.ac.nz |
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