IALF Bali

The IALF has an extensive Resource Centre with library, audio/video room and computer room, as well as a separate language laboratory.

During the course you will be able to make full use of the Resource Centre. You are advised to bring any visual aids such as magazine articles, charts etc. you might wish to use on the course.

Cert TESOL Trainers

Josie Gawron

Josie has been an ESL teacher for over 20 years. After leaving Australia in 1985, she traveled to Europe and finally settled in Spain. She took a certificate in English language Teaching and spent the following 10 years living and working in Barcelona.

On her return to Australia, Josie undertook a 4 year Bachelor of Social Work degree but continued to teach English on a part-time basis. After successfully completing her degree she decided to return to teaching as this allowed her the opportunity for further travel. The next four years saw her teaching ESL in China, where she was head teacher, and also in Kuwait.

In 2004 she returned to Barcelona where she completed the Diploma in English Language Teaching (DELTA). She then went back to Australia and worked as an ESL instructor for James Cook University. While at the university Josie co-taught an intensive 5-week course to a group of Chinese teachers of English.

In December 2005 Josie moved to Bali where she began working for IALF as an EAP teacher. In 2007 she took over as course coordinator of teacher training.

Josie's main interests include supporting recently qualified teachers and maximizing class handouts.

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Caroline Bentley

Caroline is a graduate of Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, with a degree in European Languages and Institutions. She took the Trinity Cert TESOL in 1990 and began her career in ELT by trying out her new found teaching skills in Surrey, Paris and Lisbon before venturing further afield to Indonesia. She added to her qualifications by passing the Diploma in TESAL in 1997 and completed a Masters in Applied Linguistics and TESOL in June 2005. She has been working at IALF since March 1996.

Caroline came to Indonesia in 1992 as a volunteer Teacher Trainer for the British organisation VSO (Voluntary Services Overseas) and spent two and a half years working as a lecturer at a Teacher Training College, IKIP PGRI Kediri, in East Java. As a VSO, she taught English to undergraduates and conducted teacher training programmes for the junior lecturers in the English department, and together with other VSO members, organised teacher development activities for local high school English teachers.

In her time at IALF Caroline has taught on various courses, including Banking English, Hotel English, General English, Business English and Academic English. In addition, she has had opportunities to teach and do testing in other parts of Indonesia, such as Makassar, Manado and Ambon, and Dili in East Timor, as well as take part in a 3-month teacher exchange at Macquarie University in Sydney.

Caroline has been involved as a tutor on the Trinity Cert TESOL program since it began at IALF Bali in 1999. In addition to the Cert TESOL, Caroline has conducted short teacher training courses and workshops in Aceh, East Java and Bali.

Caroline’s main professional interests are Teacher Support, Teacher Education and Learner Independence.

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John Kent

John was born in Sydney, Australia but grew up on a farm just outside Canterbury, UK. He studied agriculture at university but rather than embarking on a career in agriculture he instead took a certificate in English language Teaching and flew to Hong Kong where he found his first teaching job and was able to indulge his other passion, Tai Chi which he still loves to practise.

After working and travelling in SE Asia for a number of years, John returned to the UK where he took a Diploma in ELT (1988) immediately followed by a Masters in Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching from London University (1989). It was during this time that he met his wife Asli and they married shortly before going to work this time as a teacher trainer in Shanghai, China.

Since then John has been a teacher/teacher trainer in the UK, and Indonesia, but has interspersed this with periods working as a diving instructor and Tai Chi instructor in and around Asia. He and Asli now live on a seriously nice surfing beach in South Bali, where they have opened a vegetarian cafe.

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Kristi Graham

Kristi was born in Scotland, grew up partly there and partly in the US, then took a degree and DipLA in Landscape Architecture in England. After seven years working as a landscape architect in England, she decided she was in need of a career break. In 1992 she took a CELTA course and then headed off to a small town in Czechoslovakia for what she thought was going to be a few months experiencing a different way of life. She enjoyed the experience so much that she never went back to her old life. Over fifteen years and six countries later, she still has no regrets about that choice.

Kristi's first taste of teacher training was at the Maritime University in Haiphong, Vietnam, in 1993/94 where she was working as an ESP teacher and materials developer. She was asked by the university to design and teach a series of workshops on methodology for Vietnamese teachers of English. Later, after studying for her DipTESOL, her work involved in-service training and support for other teachers, first as Course Director for a Business English school in Hungary, then as Academic Co-ordinator for a language school in Java. She arrived in Indonesia in 1999, moved to Bali in 2001 and now considers it home. She has worked as an EAP teacher with IALF since 2003 and first became part of the teacher training team at IALF in 2006.

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