the TrendWatcher

John Brezinsky is a manager at Pearson Longman. After completing his BA in English at Tulane University in New Orleans, he taught EFL in Moscow, Russia. He returned to the U.S. and received his Master’s in Applied Linguistics/ESL from Georgia State University. He has taught in and administered university IEPs, a community college ESL program, and a private language school. He presents at conferences and leads workshops on contemporary teaching methodology. His primary interests include course design and corpus linguistics, as well as teaching grammar, pronunciation, reading/writing, and listening/speaking.