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David A. Hill was born in
Walsall, UK in 1952. After a grammar school education he went on to study at
St. Paul's College of Education, Cheltenham, where he obtained a Bristol
University C.Ed. (1973) and B.Ed. (1974).
After 3 years of teaching
in primary schools in Oxfordshire and Swindon, her moved into full-time ELT
with a private language school in Riva Del Garda, Italy. After 2 years there,
he returned to Britain to take a one-year full-time Exeter University Dip. Ed.
(ELT) at Marjons in Plymouth.
After 3 months in Summer
1980 with Pilgrims, he went to Prizren, Kosovo, as British Council Lektor at
the primary teacher training college for 2 years, and then moved over to the
University of Niš in southern Serbia in the same capacity for 4 years.
During this period he completed his research for an Exeter University M.Phil.
in Applied Linguistics, which was awarded in 1987.
In 1986, David moved to
Milan as Director of Studies at the British Council DTEO, moving over to become
English Teaching Adviser for northen Italy in 1987, a post he held until it was
cut in 1998. During much of this time, he returned to Pilgrims every summer to
teach, train teachers and trainers, and also worked on the British Council's
Exeter Summer School 3 times. His recipe book for teachers on using pictures
(Visual Impact, Longman) was published in 1990, and his first course book
(Corpus, Sedes) for Italian secondary schools came out in 1994.
Since 1998 David has been a freelance ELT consultant, working out of
Budapest. His work has taken him throughout Europe, as well as to India,
Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. The mainstay of his work in this period has
been teacher training, much of it done for NILE in Norwich each summer, and
writing teaching materials. He has worked on coursebooks for China, Egypt,
Kazakhstan, Eastern Europe, Morocco, Spain, Italy, Bosnia and Romania. His two
original readers for CUP (A Matter of Chance (1999) and How I Met Myself
(2001)) are widely sold worldwide.
Professionally his main
interests are: techniques of teacher training and development, British cultural
studies, literature, teaching young learners, teaching young adults. He is a
member of the Committee of Management of IATEFL. When not involved in ELT,
David indulges a wide range of eclectic interests: natural history, writing and
translating poetry, playing and singing blues and traditional folk, studying
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