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Graduate Student Showcase Roundtable #1145

Andrew Lerner is an ESL educator with close to a decade of experience working in South Korea. As a teacher for South Korea’s EPIK program, he taught English to elementary school students in Gyeonggi province for 7 years. He completed his master’s in applied linguistics through the University of Birmingham and is currently an assistant professor of English at Kyungnam University

Kirsten Razzaq currently teaches English to young learners in Busan, South Korea, where she has lived since 2017. Her next milestone will be completing an MA TESOL from the University of Sunderland in 2021. Since 2018 she has been a member of KOTESOL and since 2019 has lectured online and offline for the NIIED, training incoming EPIK teachers and TaLK scholars. She is the KOTESOL Busan-Gyeongnam chapter Secretary for 2021.

I am an EFL teacher with 5 years of experience working in Turkey. I have mostly taught General English and IELTS to teens and adults in Istanbul. Having completed a BA in ELT and the DELTA Module 1 and 3, I am currently doing an MA in ELT at Bahcesehir University, Istanbul. My main interests include TBLT, Dogme ELT, spoken discourse, using technology, teacher training.

I am currently an MA student at the University of Birmingham, focusing on critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics. I teach English and Literature to students from grades eight through ten at the Jakarta Indonesia Korean School.

Hello! I am an EFL teacher in Istanbul Turkey. After finishing BA and MA in Persian Language and Literature at Taurida National V.I. Vernadsky University in Ukraine I moved to Turkey with AIESEC to try myself as an ELT intern-teacher in a high school in Manisa, Turkey. After a first year as a teacher I got CELTA in IH Izmir and moved to Istanbul to work in K12 schools. Nowadays I am an instructor at School of Foreign Languages in Istanbul Gedik University with 6 years of teaching experience, as well as a graduate student of ELT MA Program in Bahçeşehir University.

Matthew French is an EFL teacher with 7 years’ experience teaching English in Japan. He has taught primarily junior high and elementary school students in Japan as an ALT on the JET Programme. In class he is always looking for new ways to incorporate technology and music, while his research interests lie in using corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis, particularly political and news discourse, to reveal the power of words. He has recently submitted his dissertation for his master’s in TESOL through the University of Birmingham. Matthew currently works at the Mihara Board of Education in Hiroshima, Japan.