John Cotton

John Cotton has been teaching ESL and EFL for 9 years. He started teaching as a Lecturer in the ELP at Penn in October 2007 and became a Language Specialist in February 2009.

John gained his TESOL certification in London in 1999 and began teaching voluntarily for a local charity for displaced youth. In 2000 he moved to Oaxaca, Mexico to teach at The Cambridge Academy, a school he returned to as Director of Studies in 2002.

John has also taught survival English in Iowa City, Iowa, Business English in Dublin, Ireland, and both EAP and ESOL in London, UK. Most recently he studied for an MA in TESOL in Portland, Oregon, where he graduated in 2007. While studying, John taught at the Northwest International Student Exchange, the Intensive English Language Program and the International Study Program at Portland State University. He also worked for three years on a longitudinal panel study of adult learning.

His teaching interests center on lifelong learning, English for Academic Purposes and teaching materials that are relevant to the lives of refugees and asylees.