My Teachers

STEVE NEUFELD : https://twitter.com/neufelds 

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I’ve been teaching English as a foreign language since 1990, having worked in the Czech Republic, Turkey, and the Sultanate of Oman before coming to Cyprus. After working at three universities in Cyprus, I decided to branch out and published research into the most commonly used words in English as BNL2709-the essence of English, with my colleague Ali Billuroglu. I am a founding member of the Lexitronics research group, and our research projects were nominated for the British Council ELTons Award in Innovation in 2009 and 2010. I continue to be fascinated by vocabulary profiling, data-driven learning and web-based learning environments and have published several articles in these areas with colleagues who share a similar interest. Tom Cobb’s Lextutor website is my one-stop shopping for data-driven learning. If you’re interested in word lists and commonly used words in English, visit my blog. Currently, I am working at the Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus in the School of Foreign Languages and the Teaching English as a Foreign Language Programme. My wife and I left Canada in 1980 to study and live abroad, and we spent eight years in England where I obtained a Master’s degree in Museum studies. My wife studied music in London, and became a Fellow of the Trinity College of Music as well as an Associate of the Royal College of Music. We’re renovating an old stone ruin in the village of Karsiyaka, and enjoy the quiet village life in our garden with our two cats. We’ve been here since 1995, and hope to make Cyprus our permanent home.
  EDUCATION: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada University of Leicester, Leicester, England Rosthern Junior College, Rosthern, Saskatchewan, Canada
 EMPLOYMENT: Lexitronics, Middle East Technical University, Turkish Republic of North Cyprus instructor, freelance, present Midde East Technical University, North Cyprus Campus British Council, Oman Anadolu University, Eskişehır, Turkey Freud Museum, Hampstead, London, England Museum of London, Barbican, London, England Ontario Museums Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Museums Association of Saskatchewan, Regina, Saskatchewan