Richard Chinn is an experienced teacher and teacher trainer based at International House London and a Teaching Associate on the MA TESOL and MA Applied Linguistics and ELT courses at King's College London. He has taught English and worked with teachers in several contexts around the world in Asia, Central and South America, Europe, and Africa. He is an experienced tutor on CELTA and Delta courses and has also worked on PGCE courses. Richard holds an MA in ELT and Applied Linguistics from King's College London with his dissertation focussing on Emergent Language and teacher development (distinction). He is an experienced conference speaker and workshop leader, and his professional interests are in language teaching methodology, classroom interaction, reflective practice, and language teacher development.