_{Having born and grown up in Ethiopia, I was educated up to university level and got my first degree in education, in which I studied pedagogy as a major and English as a minor subject at Bahir Dar University. Then I worked as a teacher trainer - training primary school English language teachers for five years. After moving to the UK, I completed teacher training courses in English language teaching at the University of St Mark and St John, Plymouth and in teaching in further and adult education in London. For my MA, I studied TESOL (teaching English to speakers of other languages) at UCL Institute of Education. Since the completion of my MA studies, I have been teaching ESOL (English for speakers of other languages) in an FE college in London.}