Alan PulvernessNILE Consultant Trainer

Alan Pulverness worked at NILE from its inception in 1995 until 2017, when together with Sarah Mount and Alan Mackenzie, he set up TransformELT. He is a Senior Consultant for NILE, and a tutor for Modules 1 and 3 on the NILE Online DELTA Programme.

He has worked as a teacher and teacher trainer in Canada, Germany, Italy, Russia and Spain, and as a trainer trainer in Algeria. He has been a consultant for the British Council on curriculum renewal, syllabus design, materials development and reader development projects in Bulgaria, Cuba, Hungary, Poland, Russia and the UK. He is co-author of a number of coursebooks, including the award-winning Macmillan Short Course Programme and The TKT Course. His specialist interests are drama and literature in ELT and intercultural awareness. From 2000 to 2004 he edited IATEFL Conference Selections and from 2002 to 2006 he co-chaired the British Council Oxford Conference on the Teaching of Literature.

Alan has published widely, including in ELT Journal, Modern English Teacher and British Studies Now; in 2015, two chapters in Assessing Language Teachers’ Professional Skills and Knowledge; and in 2013, (with Brian Tomlinson) a chapter in Developing Materials for Language Teaching.