Leo Selivan has been involved in ELT for almost 20 years in various roles: teacher, examiner, teacher trainer, senior teacher and materials writer. He was lucky to start his teaching career with the British Council in Tel Aviv, where, among other things, he was a content writer for the British Council & BBC website TeachingEnglish. Today, Leo is a freelance lecturer in Second Language Acquisition, Language Awareness, ELT methodology and Vocabulary Teaching for both pre-service and in-service teachers. In addition to frequent appearances at international conferences, he has delivered teacher training workshops, and mentored teachers and teacher trainers in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Italy, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine. Apart from articles for Modern English Teacher, Humanising Language Teaching, EFL Magazine and the Guardian Education, his publications include Lexical Grammar (for the Cambridge Handbooks for Teachers), Activities for Alternative Assessment and a chapter in Demystifying Corpus Linguistics for English Language Teaching.
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