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I teach at the University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey.
 
For the last six years I have been organising the voluntary Wednesday workshops teacher development programme in Izmir, Turkey for the British Council.
 
I am editor of the 'Practical Teaching Ideas' column in IATEFL Voices, the magazine of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language.
 
I guest-edited the November 2006 edition of Humanising Language Teaching.
 
I have had articles published in Modern English Teacher, English Teaching Professional, IATEFL Voices, and on the web in Onestopenglish, Humanising Language Teaching,  Internet TESL Journal and Daves ESL Cafe.
 
I have had more than three hundred teaching ideas published in international ELT websites and magazines. You can read some of them here...

'Using proverbs': winner of the onestopEnglish lesson share competition December 2007

Sentence Games, Humanising Language Teaching September 2007

Sounding English: Humanising Language Teaching Nov 2006

'Correcting spoken language' (with Steve Darn) Winner of the onestopenglish methodology challenge December 2005

'Explaining grammar with metaphor part 2' Humanising Language Teaching November 2005

'Teaching vocabulary' winner of the onestopenglish methodology challenge May 2005

'Explaining grammar with metaphor' Humanising Language Teaching May 2005

'Using creative thinking to find new uses for realia' ITESL Journal February 2005

'Drilling can be fun!' ITESL Journal July 2002

'Fun with pictures for ELT' first published in IATEFL Issues December 1999