Fiona is a freelance English language teacher with over 12 years’ experience in the education sector. She teaches adults and children on a one-to-one basis or in small groups both in-person and online, with particular focus on speaking skills, pronunciation and grammar.

Fiona taught French in primary schools for 5 years both within the curriculum and as an extracurricular activity. She also taught business English in a London language school for 5 years to over 100 business professionals from France. Currently the majority of her teaching is online with students predominantly based in Spain and China.

Fiona has a proven track record of delivering high quality personalised tuition due to her understanding of the challenges faced by speakers of other languages, especially those whose first language is French, German, Spanish or Mandarin.

Prior to joining the teaching profession, Fiona was a Systems Consultant for 15 years in the Information Technology industry where she gained technical, implementation and project management skills along with customer management experience at a high level.

With an academic background as a linguist (B.A. Double Hons French and German), Fiona is passionate about delivering high quality education and improving the prospects of all English language students.

Naomi Flynn is Professor of Multilingual Education at the University of Reading’s Institute of Education. She is a teacher educator whose interests lie in professional learning design to support teachers working with linguistically diverse learners in mainstream classrooms.  Her research is focussed on bringing successful US-designed, intentionally dialogic practice to the U.K. Her current project is a partnership with Hampshire’s Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement Service with whom she has built the online Talk-Rich Teaching Toolkit to support oracy education with multilingual learners.