Alun Rees obituary | Tefl

My friend and colleague Alun Rees, who has died all of a sudden aged 83, enjoyed a very long and distinguished vocation in training English as a foreign language. Alun worked for additional than 40 years in educational facilities, universities and ministries of education in 16 countries. He specialised in teacher education, and was effectively acknowledged for his inspirational education sessions combining deep scholarship with humour and creativeness.

Born in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, to Joan (nee Watts), a piano teacher, and Thomas Rees, a operates manager, Alun went to Haverfordwest grammar school. In the early 1960s, soon after graduating from University Higher education Cardiff with a diploma in English and philosophy, Alun established off to Spain to teach at the Berlitz school in Burgos for three several years. In those people days several industrial instructing elements existed and Alun started developing his own wide assortment of innovative instructing strategies.

Following four decades educating at Trujillo College in Peru and 3 at the Countrywide College of Laos, in 1977 Alun moved to Senegal, where by he worked for 6 years as English language training adviser to the ministry of training, location up in-company trainer education programmes. In the course of this time he won the English-Speaking Union prize for an article on instructor observation. In 1983 he returned to the British isles to start a doctorate at the Institute of Training in London.

During the 80s Alun was in fantastic need to teach on household instructor teaching programmes, specifically in Spain, invited by the British Council and the Spanish ministry of education and learning. The instructors liked him for the authentic way he sent major written content, and for the night demonstrates he organised and compered, entire of first sketches, music, puppets, magic methods and prizes.

Immediately after completing his doctorate, Alun taught at the West Sussex Institute of Greater Instruction (now the University of Chichester) and then Exeter University, wherever he achieved Ekuko Narushima they married in 2000. Colleagues speak of Alun’s attractiveness and how much college students appreciated his courses. He finished his vocation at the University of Gloucestershire as a remarkably productive head of the intercontinental office environment.

Alun loved 20 many years of retirement in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, with Ekuko, concerned in fishing, organic and natural gardening and implementing his intellect to the non-chemical deterrence of pests, from squirrels to slugs. He taken care of a standard correspondence with several former colleagues and students, sending insightful emails on language teaching, fishing, horticulture and the state of the globe.

Alun is survived by Ekuko.