During this webinar, John Bunting will share ideas and strategies for finding, hiring, and keeping talented English language instructors and support staff. He will share his own experiences as an Intensive English Program director, along with suggestions and anecdotes from other directors in the field on how to embrace effective ways to build effective ELT teaching and ELT administrative teams in challenging environments.

About the speaker:

Photo of John BuntingDr. John Bunting is Principal Senior Lecturer in the Department of Applied Linguistics, and he is the director of the Intensive English Program at Georgia State University, where he has taught since 2001. His doctoral dissertation (GSU, 2013) was on ways in which L2 writing teachers integrate corpus tools in their knowledge base and practices. His other areas of interest include teacher training, legal English, corpus linguistics, and the use of technology in second language teaching and learning. He worked on the award-winning MacMillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners (2002), and has written College Vocabulary 4 (2006, Cengage) and updated the second edition of the US version of Vocabulary in Use: High Intermediate (2010, Cambridge University Press).

His most recent book, co-authored with the wonderful Dr. Luciana Diniz and using corpus materials developed by Dr. Randi Reppen, is Grammar and Beyond 4 (2021, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press). John has worked extensively on an online teacher training program (funded by USAID) for EFL teachers in Mexico with an amazing group of teachers and teacher-trainers from the National Pedagogical University in Mexico City, and has given workshops and presentations on vocabulary, technology, and corpus linguistics in the US and in various countries in Latin America. Dr. Bunting has also done numerous English Language Specialist projects for the U.S. Department of State in Turkey, Tanzania, Qatar, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico.