John L. Clark

I was educated at Glenalmond in Scotland and in the universities of Cambridge (BA and MA in Modern Languages) and Edinburgh (Education and Applied Linguistics), obtaining my PhD in Edinburgh University in 1985. I have always had a passion for education, modern language learning in school, and language in education and have worked over the years as teacher, teacher educator and adviser to schools in Scotland, France, Germany, Madagascar, Mauritius, Afghanistan and Hong Kong (30 years), Founder and Director of an English Language Teaching Centre (5 years in Madagascar), Founder and Head of a Language Department in an Institute of Education and text-book writer (2 years in Mauritius), Lead Consultant and Developer in three large curriculum and assessment development projects over a large number of years (Graded Levels of Achievement in Foreign Language Learning in Scotland, Australian Language Levels in Australia, and the Target Oriented Curriculum in Hong Kong), co-founder and manager of international schools in China (10 years), Consultant to and President of a number of Community Colleges in Hong Kong (10 years).

I am now retired and live in Edinburgh, Scotland.