LanguagEd

Chiara Bruzzano (BA, MA, Cambridge DELTA 1, PhD) is a teacher trainer and researcher in language education. She is the founder and manager of LanguagEd, with which she has helped hundreds of Italian teachers pass their concorso. After teaching English in Italy, Spain and the UK, she gained her PhD at the University of Leeds with a research study on the teaching of English listening in Italian high schools. She is now the Principal Investigator on her research project "Forced Migrants, IELTS and Access to Higher Education" for the British Council. Chiara has been a language teacher trainer for many years and she specialises in the Italian school context. She has collaborated with a number of schools in Italy and is an English trainer at the Università degli Studi di Milano. She also collaborates on TESOL MA degrees with the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and the University of Leeds. Chiara has published research and presented at international conferences on language teaching methodology. Further, she has developed teacher training materials for Oxford University Press Italia, and she is a resident writer for Modern English Teacher.

A native of Toronto, Canada, Andrew is a teacher, writer, and entrepreneur. He is Co-Director of English language startup Learn YOUR English. Andrew has been a language teacher since 2010, working both in Canada and abroad. He has taught a range of student and teacher training courses, and his current interests include English for Academic Purposes. More recently, he has been teaching EAP at College and Universities in Canada since 2015. He has a passion for teacher education, development, and working with teachers to ensure they not only receive the support they require, but that they are also provided the tools to take control of their own self-directed development. Andrew also contributes to and produces podcasts. He currently produces two podcasts: the Learn YOUR English podcast, and Incomplete Past. He is also the co-host of Corey & Woody IsoCast.

Sylvia is a Teaching Fellow in English at the University of Bologna and an Examiner. Growing up bilingual between the UK and Italy, Sylvia has always pursued her passion for languages: she studied Modern Foreign Languages and Literature at the Catholic University of Milan and completed her MA in TESOL and Translation Studies at Aston University in Birmingham. She has taught English in a wide range of educational contexts in Spain, Italy and UK with a focus on exam preparation, ESP and Academic English. She has also been Course Director in Cambridge and has taught online to refugees and displaced people for several years. Sylvia is currently studying for her Cambridge DELTA. She is interested in English as a Foreign Language and especially in Communicative Language Teaching. Find out more about her on this page: shorturl.at/bCI24