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Name

Dowling Shaun

Country

Brazil

Area of Study

TEFL/TESL

When did you begin at The University of Birmingham

10/01/2007

Current Status

module 2

About Yourself

Originally a planning Engineer in construction from England I now teach English in a private institute in Brasilia, Brazil. I am the Mentor of the school made up 25 Brazilian teacher and I like researching on vocabulary and language learning strategies.

I have written many articles but my main work has been in lexical notebooks and the teaching of more lexical instruction/approach.

I have run a teacher association for many years and give teacher training for whever needs it such as different government agencies and local universities and publishers.

I am married and have 2 teenage chilldren so I´m no spring chicken ;). I love dancing, eating Brazilian traditional food and dancing to Brazilian music. I crazy about Liverpool Football club.

I heard about the B´ham MA after grabbing a cheeky lift of Terry Shorthall and he twisted me arm into doing the course. Well, I tell it like that anyway lol.