Lesley Painter-Farrell
Part-time Lecturer
Email
painterl@newschool.edu
Office Location
A - 66 West 12th Street
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Lesley Painter-Farrell (DELTA, CELTA Cambridge University, M.Sc Aston University) worked as a teacher of English as a foreign language in Portugal, Poland, and many countries in Asia. She began teacher training when based in Poland for the Soros Foundation and Longman publications. She moved to New York to head a teacher training department and designed courses for teaching younger learners, teaching using new trends and language development courses for teachers who are not native speakers of English; she also ran CELTA courses. Her research focuses on reflective practice in teaching. Her own published materials for ELT include The Role Play Book, Homework, and Lessons Learned: First Steps Towards Reflective Teaching in ELT. She lives in New York.
Degrees Held
DELTA (Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), Cambridge University, UK
CELTA (Certiifcate in Teaching English to Sperakers of Other Langauges), Cambridge University, UK
M.Sc TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), Aston University, UK
Professional Affiliation
TESOL International Association
IATEFL Interantional Association
NYSTATE TESOL
Recent Publications
Lessons Learned: First Steps Towards Reflective Teaching in ELT. Richmond Publications, 2015
Happy Campers, Macmillan, 2014
Homework, Oxford University Press, 2000
The Role Play Book, English Shop, 1999
Performances and Appearances
IATEFL, NYS TESOL, TESOL since 2007
Research Interests
Reflective Practice, Corrective Feedback, Second Language Acquisition
Portfolio
www.eslsite.com