Rod Mitchell is the Director of Studies at Linguarama Rome (Italy); marcus evans linguarama is a language education provider for adults in Western European and England. Previously with the same position in competitors Cactus Worldwide Ltd (UK) and Berlitz Brighton (UK), he has been in EFL and 35-odd other languages academic management since 2005, dealing with all the expected and unexpected tasks of teacher recruitment, training, professional development; coursework development, assessment procedures, Summer School management, school database development and management and computer centre/CALL development. A high school drop-out, his very first full-time job at the tender age of 16 was as a postman/post office counter services; credit points from a university evening course gained him adult entry to a BA in Linguistics, French, Indonesian and Behavioral Sciences (JCU Australia). He also has a Post Graduate Diploma of Education in EFL and FLE (UQ, Australia), did a 2-year Masters Qualification course in Linguistics (UQ), and later an MA in Linguistics (JCU) and a PG Dip/Cert MFL Mentor’s Certificate (CityLit, UK). Multilingual - he shares 4 of his 8-odd languages with his Sardinian (Italian) wife Anna - he brings a descriptive/analytical/applied/ cognitive linguistics background approach to language teaching and learning processes. Rod has been in EFL and tertiary teaching/research for over 35 years in Australia, France, Italy and the UK, in Senior Teacher positions (EFL Student counseling, Assessment Procedures, teacher professional development, CALL, school database management and development and computer centre management), a Cambridge Suite speaking examiner, with non-teaching positions such as academic database operations, Australian Indigenous music/songs research, university/adult education Associate Lecturer and Student Counselor (Primary Education, Academic Study Skills, Computing, student counseling, community liaison, ESL), a Research Associate at Oxford University (childhood acquisition and development of language), Adult Literacy, Communication Skills, Academic and Study Skills, Music and Mathematics – and has also taught French, Irish, Kalau Kawau Ya and Yumplatok as foreign languages.
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